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Exercise: How to Gain Motivation
By Jaclyn Martinez, LMSW - Long Island EMDR People’s motivation to exercise can vary so significantly depending on their personal values, goals, hobbies, and ways they take care of themselves. My Journey with Exercise On one hand, there are people like me who struggle to get motivated to work out. I know it’s good for […]
By Jillian Martino, CAT-LP What is Self-Love? So, what is self-love? We all talk about it and influencers constantly preach about it. But what exactly is self-love? Why do we all want it? Most importantly, how do we get there? Self-love is the practice of having a positive attitude towards yourself. The main ingredient of […]
Crisis Survival Skills from DBT Distress Tolerance
We all go through unenjoyable experiences, which can be unpleasant all the way up to a full-blown crisis. At the mild end of this spectrum, it could be the cat seriously stunk up the litter box, you forgot to put out the garbage before the collection time, or someone left just a quarter-cup of milk […]
Because our culture tells us that men should just sit down and shut up about their vulnerabilities, this often leads to self-destructive means of coping in men.
The many benefits of journaling to address our thoughts and feelings include the relief that follows laying out our thoughts on paper, tracking our emotions, figuring out what our stressors are, processing what is helpful or not in our coping, and helping us to slow down our thinking so that we can think at our writing pace and not feel overwhelmed.
what we do know is that those who have OCD have a larger sense of responsibility to tend to their intrusive thoughts as well as may misinterpret these intrusive thoughts. This sense of responsibility and repetitive behaviors lead to the obsessive thoughts regarding the stressor, leading the individual to engage in compulsive behaviors to rid themselves of the intrusive thoughts.
There are many signs of manipulation that one can show if we know what to look for in our interactions with not just our romantic partners, but anyone in our lives.
Essentially, moral injury can occur when someone either engages in or witnesses an event and/or action that goes against their own personal values, ethics, and beliefs. There are two types of acts that can lead to moral injury; acts of commission and acts of omission.
We are so eager to identify one or more resolutions. The most important factor in making and keeping a resolution is to be realistic, balanced, and fair.