Tag: mindfulness
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Understanding Anxiety Through Compassion Focused Therapy
From a Compassion Focused Therapy perspective, our anxious self is part of the threat system functioning that strive to protect us from physical and social threat. It is most often triggered by unknown, uncertainties or reminders of negative past experiences. Sometimes, people struggling with anxiety might ruminate about events or become paralyzed with worries that…
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Overcoming Anxious Thoughts: Strategies for Personal Growth
Anxious feelings could come in the form of an inner voice that keeps raising questions, highlighting dangers in the situation or making negative predictions no matter what we do. This pessimistic inner voice usually focuses on safety from physical and social threat. Physical threat is not limited to life and death issues like accident or…
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Building Self-Compassion to Fight Depression
Depressive episodes could sometimes be experienced as an inner voice that keeps beating us up and criticizing our every moves. It can come in the form of self-attacking acts when we have difficulties feeling safe socially and internally. We might be concerned with others’ thoughts and feelings about us – for example, disapproval, blame, judgment…
Compassionate Living Psychology 