I am completely fascinated by the concept of neuroplasticity.
Neuroplasticity is a term that refers to the ability of our brains to adapt to our environment and change with experience. That means that the brain's neurological pathways aren't set ...
Fear, worry, and anxiety are some of our most primitive emotions. Their main goal is to keep us safe and in some cases, alive.
Because of their vital function, these emotions will override all our other emotions, ensuring that they are heard ...
For me, one of the hardest feelings is that of feeling like an outsider. When you are in a room full of people, feeling like you don’t belong and your head spins with imagining what everyone is thinking about you - and NONE of it is good!
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There are times in our lives where we feel out of place in the world.
We feel we don't belong because we don't believe we are smart enough, popular enough, attractive enough, or something else enough.
When this happens to me there is a small part ...
Managing social anxiety can be difficult. It is not like the fear triggered by something like a snake we encounter in our path.
Social anxiety is insidious, sitting just below the surface, and impacting our every interaction in some way big or ...
This is a slightly different type of podcast. Instead of a straightforward teaching or an interview it is much more a conversation. The topic of the conversation with my friend Jondi Whitis where we talk about using tapping protocols and how we find ...
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Recently I was working with "Kelly." We had been working every week or two for 30 minutes at a time on the issue of anxiety she was feeling at work. When we started working she described the anxiety as being present ...
Writing a description of an interview with Rick Wilkes is always a difficult task. On the surface there is the topic at hand for the interview, but when we are chatting things move more much far afield into deep issues of healing and well-being than ...