Excellent Mental Health Means Total Mental Freedom®
The way to excellent mental health is Mental Freedom® Mental Freedom occurs when your mind is working for you instead of against you. You have learned to take responsibility for your life, and you’ve stopped taking responsibility for everyone else’s. Your relationships are healthy, your thoughts serve you and you know how to transform painful […]
Trauma & Choice Theory
Because Dr. Glasser taught that focusing on the past is futile, some people might think that discussing trauma as a Choice Theory practitioner is discouraged. I disagree. When we experience a traumatic event, our sympathetic nervous system is activated. This releases our stress hormones—cortisol and adrenaline—during the fight or flight response. Typically, our first response […]
Stress Awareness and Resilience
Stress is something we can’t seem to avoid. We have relationship, financial, work and health stressors everywhere, and that’s before factoring in the current pandemic which has, to date, killed 554,000 people in the U.S. alone. That’s a ton of stress. Why do some people seem to manage stress better than others? Is it because […]
Realty Therapy Workshops
I do not talk a lot about Reality Therapy and Choice Theory in my material but everything I write and many of my workshop topics are based on the revolutionary work of Dr. William Glasser. I am an approved instructor through his institute and hold several weeks of training throughout the year in these ideas. […]