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Reframing is a different way of thinking about a problem or challenge. Instead of focusing on the things you can’t do, reframing helps you discover the things you can do.
Reframing is looking beyond pain and troubles and searching for alternatives that may have been hidden from view. It means realizing you are not alone, and that you can solve problems.
Reframing is a skill we can apply to every situation. Today on my podcast and blog, we’ll explore some ways reframing can help us grow.
Fear can teach us to be cautious, to listen to our gut feeling about physical danger, and to learn new, more constructive ways to accomplish things.
Fear can also teach us to give up. When life hands us one tough situation after another, we begin to attribute our lack of results to our inadequacies and failure. Then we give up because we don’t trust ourselves. Fear has taught us to cower in a corner, immobilized.
Fear should never teach us to give up. Today on my podcast and blog, you’ll learn four ways to combat your “fear dragon” so you can optimistically move forward.
When fear sets up housekeeping, it brings along its friends, panic and anxiety.
Panic stops us in our tracks. Heart pounding, we’re frozen – unable to move and with nowhere to go.
Anxiety feeds the fear and panic with its slogans:
Fear is a healthy emotion, and we need to listen to what it is telling us. However, becoming immobilized by fear is not healthy. Today on my blog and podcast, you’ll learn five ways to dial down the panic before it overwhelms you.
Fear is a good thing when it alerts us to danger. Fear gets the adrenaline pumping so we can fight or run away.
However, fear can also keep us immobilized so we don’t search for the underlying cause. Searching for the cause involves asking ourselves: “Is this a normal reaction to what is happening, or am I making it worse than it is?”
Today on my podcast and blog, we’ll explore what I call a “fear dragon.” We create this monster by continually asking, “What if?”
Our fear dragon demands to be continually fed.
Are you allowing a fear dragon to attack you? Read on…
When was the last time you felt afraid?
We don’t enjoy feeling afraid, but fear is a survival mechanism that tells us to stop and proceed with caution.
Today on my blog and podcast, we’ll examine 9 positive aspects of fear.
Are you familiar with “automatic thoughts”?
They’re instant, habitual thoughts and reactions we have to experiences, based on beliefs and insights from our past.
We often don’t notice automatic thoughts, and as a result, they can negatively impact us.
But we can change our reactions when we take time to assess our automatic thoughts.
Today on my blog and podcast, I’ll share an exercise that’ll help you assess your automatic thoughts.
How we react to conflict can make a huge difference between ongoing, escalating battles where nobody wins, or turning it into a solution and a win-win.
Conflict is almost always associated with how we communicate problems. Today on my podcast and blog, we’ll look at “the story of the faulty air conditioner” from two perspectives.
Then I’ll provide six helpful ways to prevent conflicts in your own life from escalating.
Who doesn’t remember the thrill of holding your first child?
…Or cheering your favorite team that scored the final point that won the game.
…Or the overwhelming relief you experienced when the doctor told you your symptoms were not serious.
What a blessing to have such wonderful feelings when experiencing joy or pleasure.
We can plan and anticipate the happy feelings we will have. Yet, there are times when we get stuck in emotions that make us feel resentful, angry, fearful, or anxious.
Today on my blog and podcast, we’ll examine how our emotions are formed, and what we can do when negative emotions get triggered.
Transitioning from unwanted endings can be uncomfortable and unsettling. When you lose someone or something of importance, part of you dies with your spouse, child, dream, career, marriage, or childhood. You not only suffer the loss of that person or thing, but you may also feel as if you have lost your own identity.
Today on my podcast and blog, we’ll explore the ways loss opens the door to change. You’ll learn why it’s crucial to build a bridge from an ending to a new beginning.
Does your first response to conflict resolve that conflict or create more conflict?
Is anger your typical reaction when things don’t go your way? Over time, untamed anger fuels resentment. Resentment becomes a “grievance story” that we repeat until it dominates our thinking. As resentment becomes our predominant attitude, we’re robbed of joy, pleasure, and peace.
Today on my podcast and blog, you’ll learn five things to do when your anger is triggered that will help you challenge and change your response.