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Understanding Dissociative Identity Disorder aka Multiple Personality Disorder
Dissociative identity disorder develops when person fails to form a total personality that integrates all aspects of yourself and your emotions. For more on dissociative states watch this video on depersonalization. What Is...
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Two Steps To Manage Negative Thoughts - Negative Programming Part 2
When you feel distress, usually there is a combination of emotions and THOUGHTS associated with the emotions. The emotions are real reactions to thoughts that are usually distorted in some way. Here’s what you can do to break the cycle...
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Two Tips for Health Anxiety
The clinical term for health anxiety used to be hypochondriasis, but now it’s been split into two disorders, somatic symptom disorder and illness anxiety disorder. With health anxiety you are oversensitive to body sensations and fear you...
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Toxic Positivity: The Reality of Suppressing Emotions
What is toxic positivity? It's the idea that you have to always be happy, no matter what. If you're not, then something must be wrong with you. This video dives into how this mindset actually causes more harm than good and why it's...
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The Science of Emotion Regulation: How Our Brains Process Emotions
Have you ever walked into a room and felt suddenly sad or anxious and have no idea why you're feeling that way because no one’s around? Your brain can activate strong emotions without you being aware of why you feel that way. This video...
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Window of Tolerance: What is it and how to stay in it
In this video, I discuss the window of tolerance and how to stay in it. The window of tolerance is a state where you are performing at your best. You're relaxed, but alert. You're focused, but not overwhelmed. Learn how to find your...
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Why you’re an emotional sponge and 5 Tips for Better Boundaries
Do you seem to take on other people’s emotions and then have trouble managing them? In this video I answer a viewer question and discuss two reason you can be an emotional sponge: 1. Having low emotional intelligence 2. Being a people...
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Connotations and Denotations
Connotations and Denotations demonstrates the understanding of word relationships by matching connotations of words with their similar denotations.
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Author’s Purpose
Author’s Purpose determines the importance of writing for purpose by reading passages and identifying the author’s purpose for writing.
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Figurative Language and Tone
Figurative Language and Tone interprets figurative language and shows its relationship to tone.
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Mastering Your Emotions: Dispel These 10 Myths About Emotions
The overall goal of emotion regulation is to reduce emotional suffering. It’s not to get rid of emotions. Some people will always be more emotional than others. In a previous video I talked about the biology of emotions. In this video,...
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Parentified Child – Causes, Effects and Steps to Healing
The normal role of a parent is to meet your child’s needs and guide their development. When there’s a breakdown in this role, the child is put into an adult-like role of meeting the parents needs. In the literature this has been referred...
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Is Anyone Normal?
Not every emotional response is pathological. Not all fear or depressed mood is pathological. We’re emotional beings who respond to our environment. And your response takes on a certain flavor that’s influenced by your psychological make...
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8 Self-Defeating Thoughts that Wreak Havoc
I want to help you identify automatic thoughts that you have that can affect how you feel about yourself and others. We call these cognitive distortions. We all have them to some degree. The more you have and the more rigidly you stick...
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Affirmation Meditation - Let Go of Anger
This is a positive affirmation meditation designed to give you a script to replace your negative thoughts with positive ones. What you think guides your actions. The more you can focus on positive thoughts, the easier it is to diffuse...
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Emotion Regulation Hacks: Two Powerful Calming Techniques
Are you often overwhelmed by powerful emotions? Do you wish there were some simple, yet effective ways to reduce the emotional overload? Today I’m going to tell you about two remarkably effective techniques that can help you achieve just...
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Binge Eating Disorder Triggers and Treatments
Binge eating disorder is not the same as bulimia which involves eating large quantities of food and then using things to purge the food such as over exercising, vomiting, or using laxatives. Binge eating disorder is a newly defined...
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Always Angry? Try This Technique Before The Next Blow Up
Do you find yourself always angry? Here's how to analyze your blow ups and see what’s behind the anger. Understanding what’s lies below the surface trigger can help you defuse the blow ups.
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Emotional Blindness and other Signs of Alexithymia
Alexithymia is a psychological disorder in which the individual has difficulty identifying, understanding, and expressing their emotions. People with alexithymia often appear to be unemotional or “emotionally blind” and may have trouble...
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Claim Your Emotions: How to Identify and Name What You're Feeling
Disclaimer: All of the information on this channel is for educational purposes and not intended to be specific/personal medical advice from me to you. Watching the videos or getting answers to comments/question, does not establish a...
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Borderline Personality Disorder vs. Depression - How to Manage Your Emotions
How do you know if you have borderline personality disorder versus being depressed? People with borderline personality disorder can feel depressed but not all low moods are depression. You can have both depression and borderline...
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Autism Spectrum Disorder - Understanding the Sensory Crisis
In this video I define autism spectrum disorder and specifically focus on the what you can do about the sensory crisis. The way we define autism has changed over the years. It began as infantile autism in 1980 and then in 1987 it became...
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Anxiety: 5 primitive Defenses You Use Against It
Defense mechanisms are a set of mental strategies we use to ward off anxiety. These range from the primitive, like denial and projection, to more complex ones like sublimation. In this video I share five of the most common primitive...
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Do You Have a Money Disorder?
Money is inherently EMOTIONAL, so it makes sense that it gets tied up with our fears and anxieties. Sometimes, they can take over our rational decision making.