My clients know this exercise as “Name It To Tame It”. I’ve changed it to SNAP to acknowledge some of the challenges with the previous acronym, however, the basic idea is the same. This exercise uses both mindfulness and reframing skills to calm anxiety, anger, and sadness, but it can be used in a lot […]
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PACE Yourself
No matter how much we love and adore our children, completely relating to them can be challenging at times. Yet, that ‘relating’ is essential to the life-long connection we have to our kids. . .and their life-long connections to us and to the world. The following is an adaptation of a strategy from Daniel A. […]
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