Finding Your Life Compass Anger has personal cost. It compromises our relationship with ourselves. And generally speaking, it compromises our relationships with others, anger takes on meaning, and the costs of anger, acted on in harmful ways, proliferate #TheActWorkbookforAnger

You can't stop judgmental thoughts from popping into your mind, as you can't will a cloud to stop crossing the sky. But, you can focus attention on what matters most, in this moment, as thoughts come and go - clouds barely there in the corner of your eye, as you walk home.

Self-compassion & self-discipline go hand in hand. If you cared for yourself the way you care for a newborn child, you could muster endless self-discipline. Do difficult things on your own behalf, and change your whole life. Discipline is a path to joy, not punishment. Reclaim.

“No one is an error term” Steven C. Hayes plenary #ACBSWC

How you wake up in the morning is how you live your life. How you make your coffee is how you live your life. How you hug the people you love is how you live your life. How you talk to yourself is how you life your life. What version of yourself to you want to live today?

Psychological flexibility and the moderating role of the therapeutic working alliance in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy in Daily Life (ACT-DL) in an early psychosis sample bit.ly/3OyfzLV [pre-print]

Dealing with anxiety is hard enough without the weight of shame and blame. You aren’t alone. You aren’t weak. You have a very tricky brain & a fine tuned threat detection system. Finding evidence based support and practicing self-compassion can help. Anxiety happens. So does love

It’s natural to feel anxiety, fear, and worry, particularly during difficult days. Ask yourself, does this day belong to me or belong to my anxiety? As much as you can, reclaim the surface area of your life for things that matte to you. Anxiety doesn’t have to run the shop.

Being sensitive to the presence of suffering, and being wholly committed to doing what is necessary to alleviate and prevent suffering is what compassion means. Does that sound like weakness? It is not weakness. Compassion is your strength. It is your wisdom. All one. One Love.

What can you do in the face a stressful, frightening world? One thing: wholeheartedly love the people who matter most to you & devote yourself to nurturing, protecting & honoring them as much as you can, and include yourself. Won't change the world, but it changes this moment.

Relations between emotion regulation strategies and affect in daily life: A systematic review and meta-analysis of studies using ecological momentary assessments sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

You didn't choose your personal history, and it has powerfully shaped your anxieties and actions. At one point in time, your avoidant behaviors seemed to serve you. You can honor that and still choose to grow into something different. You don't need to condemn yourself to grow.

Beating ourselves up and blaming ourselves are two of the most common ways that we attempt to experience control in situations that we actually cannot control.

One of the biggest mistakes we've made is thinking that the development of the mind and its functions is an individual, internal affair. The reality is that psychological development is thoroughly interpersonal from the beginning and so too is mind and its 'functions' thereafter