The Domino Effect for Stress (& Everything Else)

Everyone experiences some levels of stress if they have a functioning nervous system and I’m confident that most of us would like to experience less of it. How often have we felt overwhelmed by difficulty? How often have we found ourselves crying alone in our car at night when driving home from work or screaming into a pillow? When we find ourselves in moments like … Continue reading The Domino Effect for Stress (& Everything Else)

Fuel for the Fire: Pain & Stress

Have you ever experienced overwhelming pain and stress? Maybe it was love lost, a heartbreak, financial difficulty, a health crisis, or something else. As humans with nervous systems, we are sensitive to the challenges and adversities we face, even if we aren’t consciously aware of the effects they cause. Certainly we all would rather do with less pain and more of the pleasant experiences of … Continue reading Fuel for the Fire: Pain & Stress

Developing a Solution-Oriented Mindset Through Amor Fati

“The blazing fire makes flames and brightness  out of everything thrown into it.” – Marcus Aurelius               “Amor Fati” is a concept developed by the ancient Greek and Roman Stoics. It’s specifically a Latin phrase which means “the love of one’s fate.” We’ve all faced various forms of adversity and come upon different obstacles in our lives. The denial of reality can often stifle our … Continue reading Developing a Solution-Oriented Mindset Through Amor Fati

Overcoming Learned Helplessness

              Life can be difficult. In fact, there’s some people who experience such levels of adversity that they end up developing a sense and belief of learned helplessness. There was some research done through atrocious experimentation in the 1960s that established this fact. I’m going to spare you the details on those experiments (look into them at your own discretion), but essentially it showed that … Continue reading Overcoming Learned Helplessness