Chronic Anger

The emotion anger isn’t inherently bad or negative but if a person is angry for more than a matter of seconds then the anger is likely related to something from the past being triggered, not the event in present time that appears to cause the upset. Anger relating to a present-time event (for example, dropping…

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Escape the Personal Growth Trap

Imagine a game of snakes and ladders. Sometimes you get a ladder and move up faster. Sometimes you get a snake and slide down. Now imagine that every time you get to the top of a ladder there’s a snake right there waiting for you, and down you go again. It feels like you’re not…

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Decluttering for the Mind

Imagine that we each have a bag that we carry with us through life. The bag starts off empty and we put into it all the life experiences that we can’t, or don’t want to, face. The bag fills up with unresolved ‘stuff’, getting heavier and heavier until it weighs us down and holds us…

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