CBT with Brie

What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger? (-a passage from ‘Hearticulations’)

What will it take before you can fully trust your brilliance?

Practice practice practice. Zoom with us in room 535 012 1505 every Monday at 7pm Pacific. Be kind to your mind. You are enough, and not too much. Let me show you. Luh yuh. Hope to see you there ... #practicemakesprogress #perception #peaceofmind #cognitivedistortions #selfhealers #CBT #workshop

Waffles the sheep loves a good massage from her good feline friend, Luci!

Empathy is an interesting word...

MENTAL HEALTH MONDAY Tonight at 7! Invite your pals. Checkout links below <3

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Community matters. Stay connected, friends

Tech products are designed to hold your attention. The industry that pays the most and employs the most psychologists is advertising. Your awareness and attention is precious. Take a few moments to notice your surroundings, listen to silence, and feel your breath. Take a moment to vision your day, and put your attention and awareness on you and your own needs. Your nervous system will thank you. Unplug to recharge. X

Midweek mind-your-privilege reminder.

Meet Nick Cho, the Korean dad behind the most wholesome TikTok account there is

LIFE DOESN’T WORK OUT There are no depressing truths. If it’s the truth, it will heal you, eventually. Your depression, on the other hand, is something else.... It isn’t caused by knowledge of the truth, and you will have to deal with it, whether or not you choose to reflect on sickness, aging, death, or separation. Our culture is based on the delusion that, if we only distract ourselves enough, our lives will have resolution. But everyone knows life doesn’t follow a three-act structure in which you face adversity and then ride off into the sunset. Everyone knows life doesn’t work out. You live a while, and then you’re gone. But there IS happiness, which comes to us, paradoxically, when we stop trying to make life work out, when we stop trying to force ourselves to feel differently. And that’s a worthy and attainable goal. Someone in the music industry told me recently that I’d do better if I wrote songs that made people feel more uplifted. I told him it’s not my business to trick people into feeling what they don’t already feel. I told him that making people feel there’s something wrong with them if they don’t feel happy, empowered, and uplifted all the time is just as much an act of shaming as telling people there’s something wrong with how they look. And then I sent him my favorite Woody Guthrie quote: I hate a song that makes you think you’re not any good. I hate a song that makes you think that you are just born to lose. Bound to lose. No good to nobody. No good for nothing. Because you are either too old or too young or too fat or too slim or too ugly or too this or too that Songs that run you down or songs that poke fun at you on account of your bad luck or hard traveling. I am out to fight those kinds of songs to my very last breath of air and my last drop of blood. The idea that life is supposed to be a win will always be a way of telling people they’re born to lose. But it isn’t your fault that life doesn’t work out. Impermanence is built into the fabric of existence, not something you’re doing wrong. When you truly understand that, depression lifts. Paul Weinfield New York City, November 2020 See more

A long and worthwhile read 5 Secrets of Effective Communication CBT workshop this Tuesday at 5pm on Zoom.

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