Wishing Away Time
I don’t know about you, but when I am looking forward to something down the road it’s mighty easy for me to wish away the time in between. Have you ever done that? Were you so looking forward to the weekend that you missed Tuesday through Thursday? Have you ever...
Five Building Blocks of Relationship Culture
My last blog discussed the culture we create within our relationships. If you missed this blog, feel free to check it out HERE. Making any sort of intentional change in our relationships can be difficult to say the least. Navigating how to balance more than one...
Figuring Out What Matters
On separate panels in our group room we have the words Pursue What Matters mounted to the wall. These words express the core aim for many therapists--to help clients live harmoniously with their values, to do what matters. It seems self-evident that it’s better to do...
The Joy of Eating
What is one of the most memorable meals you have ever experienced in your life? What made it so memorable? What was it about the food? The people who were with you? The ambiance? The event? One of the most memorable meals for me wasn’t anything fancy. But it was very...
Cultivating Resilience: Developing a Sense of Purpose
As we continue to explore the specific skills we can work to develop to increase our own resilience, I want to point our attention to the 4th skill, developing a sense of purpose. Catch up on the previously discussed skills here, here, and here! What is a sense of...
Transformation Challenge
Like I’ve mentioned before, I’m a fitness coach at Orange Theory Fitness and we just finished an 8-week long transformation challenge as a company. If you know me, you know that my turmoil was pretty high when I heard we’d be doing it and that I was encouraged to 1)...
The Complexity of Growth and Progress
One of my favorite things about stories is their ability to chart personal growth (or decay) in a tight and rational narrative. The acclaimed series Breaking Bad tells the story of a mild-mannered high school chemistry teacher (Walter White) gradually becoming a...
The Culture of Relationships Part 1
The past few weeks, I have been gearing up to teach my course about culture, families, and diversity at BYU again in the fall (hopefully in person and not just online!) Through reviewing my materials from last year and thinking about how I want to teach going forward,...
Living BRAVE
I believe in being brave. This value stems from spending a lot of years not being brave. When I think about regrets I have in my life, it’s never for things I did, but rather for things I didn’t do. Things I didn’t try because I was scared. Two regrets easily come to...
Cultivating Resilience: Self-Care
As we continue to explore how to develop skills that cultivate a resilient spirit, we turn our attention this month to a popular buzzword you may even be a little weary of- self-care! (Just joining us or looking to review previous “Cultivating Resilience” posts? See...
Finding Beauty During Dark Days
We are memory collectors. Memories shape the narratives of our lives. They shape our understanding of ourselves, others, and the world. Memories contain stories as well as the full range of emotional experience. Memories hold our humanity. Because most of us have...
Cultivating a Resilient Spirit
Welcome back for another segment in “Cultivating a Resilient Spirit”. You can catch up on our introduction HERE and part one HERE. This month, we are going to be digging into how we experience distress, why it matters, and how to increase our coping through distress...