Characteristics Of Adults With Secure Relationship Patterns
Secure relationship patterns and the ability to take care of and calm one’s emotions are interconnected. The foundation of this connection is made based on childhood experiences with trusted ones, foremost our caretakers, especially our parents. As been mentioned in earlier posts, we humans develop expectations of to what degree we can depend on and […]
How The Trait Openness To Experience Can Be Beneficial In Life
Last weeks’ posts have been about the five basic dimensions of personality, often referred to as the Big 5 personality traits that serve as the building blocks of personality. These 5 personality dimensions can help us learn more about ourselves and help us decide where to focus our energy and attention, both when it comes […]
Questioning Definitions To Challenge Anxiety Provoking Thoughts
There are many anxiety inducing patterns often called cognitive distortions or thought traps. These are ways of thinking that seem true but are in fact not reasonable, realistic or relevant to the situation. Noticing when we are using thought traps and countering them is an important part of traditional CBT-exercises that also can reduce symptoms […]
Questions From ACT That You Can Ask Yourself When Experiencing A Crisis
The aim of ACT exercises is to: – Stop avoiding, denying and struggling with inner emotions and uncomfortable thoughts, but instead expect them to return and accept them as appropriate responses to certain, often unavoidable, situations. – Make necessary changes and keep moving towards what is important and enriching in our lives regardless of unavoidable […]
What You Can Do If Worrying Thoughts Are Created By Stress
Here continues a summary of my posts on how to recover as quickly as possible from more serious stress and exhaustion symptoms. This post continues with how to handle stressful thoughts, such as anxiety and rumination, as it is crucial to learn to steer one’s thoughts in order to reduce the stress level and create […]
Are You Living According To Your Values?
More and more research points towards the importance of values and perspectives on life for steering one’s life in the desired direction and staying on track while handling unexpected stressors that inevitable comes by in everyone’s life. Our values are what we think are important to focus on in life – both when it comes […]
How To Use Understanding As A Tool For Handling Stressors
Today’s post continues with Antonovsky’s concept Sense of Coherence that focuses on handling stressors and how health can be increased (see link to Mittelmark et al in earlier posts for research in this field). What determines whether stress will be harmful or not is whether or not the stress violates our sense of coherence. This […]
Characteristic’s Of Children & Adults With Disorganized Relationship Style
Secure relationship patterns and the ability to take care of and calm one’s emotions are interconnected. The foundation of this connection is made based on childhood experiences with trusted ones, foremost our caretakers, especially our parents. As been mentioned in earlier posts, we humans develop expectations of to what degree we can depend on and […]
More About The Personality Trait Neuroticism
Last weeks’ posts have been about the five basic dimensions of personality, often referred to as the Big 5 personality traits that serve as the building blocks of personality. These 5 personality dimensions can help us learn more about ourselves and help us decide where to focus our energy and attention, both when it comes […]
Using Re-attribution For Challenging Anxiety Provoking Thoughts
There are many anxiety inducing patterns often called cognitive distortions or thought traps. These are ways of thinking that seem true but are in fact not reasonable, realistic or relevant to the situation. Noticing when we are using thought traps and countering them is an important part of traditional CBT-exercises that also can reduce symptoms […]