Tagged: stress
Courses
An evening concert series to help you to let go of the stress of the day by listening to live music at Abrams Planetarium.
Articles
Give Yourself the Benefit of a Mid-Afternoon Reset
Thinking of your break as a reset may help you take more of them and likely increase your work-effectiveness.
“There’s Always a Moped”
Use what can be easily found in your environment to help you relax.
Gardening: Digging in the Dirt to Harvest Stress Relief
Gardening is an activity in which people grow, cultivate, and take care of plants. Turns out, people take care of themselves in the garden too.
Avoid the Avoidance Cycle
How to recognize the powerful pull of avoidance so that you can find ways around it.
ACT Episode 8: Value Guided Living
This video concludes the ACT series with a focus on clarifying your values so you are able to direct your time and energy towards value guided living.
The Seven Tasks of Adolescence: Task 3 - Harnessing Emotions
How to weather the emotional storms of your teenager... without losing your cool!
ACT Episode 7: Expansion Strategies
This video offers specific skills and strategies to help you navigate powerful emotions.
ACT Episode 6: Expansion and Acceptance
This episode illustrates that a life well lived is one that involves the full range of human emotions. Knowing how to experience and navigate big emotions is a key component of emotional resilience and psychological flexibility.
ACT Episode 5: Connection
This episode introduces the skill of “Connection” which is an informal mindfulness practice. Shifting our attention to the here and now allows us to release our attachment to our current thought, making space for a brand new ones to come through.
ACT Episode 4: Defusion Strategies
This video offers specific diffusion strategies for you to experiment with. Find the ones that are right for you….
ACT Episode 3: Learning to Defuse Your Thinking
This episode explains how we get “fused” with our thinking and how dangerous it can be to take our thinking seriously. Learning how to “defuse” or unhook from your own thinking is an important part of developing your psychological flexibility.
ACT Episode 2: Waking Up the Witness
Episode 2 is focused on "waking up the witness" and increasing your ability to be aware of what you are creating with your psychological gifts and determining if what you are currently creating is lined up with your core values
Taking Care of You, While Taking Care of Business
Tips for supporting your emotional well-being during stressful times
Guided Imagery: A Low-Cost, Non-Prescription Sleep Aid
Difficulty sleeping? Guided imagery might be something to try.
