Thinking back on 2020, it has become abundantly clear that lifestyle balance plays a big role in our ability to maintain not only our physical health, but also our mental and emotional wellness. During lockdowns and stay-at-home orders, we have learned how much it means to go outside, to …
Personal Narratives
Narratives: what are they? A narrative is a spoken or written account of events or a story. A personal narrative is a story we can express to ourselves or someone else about ourselves. There are several kinds and sizes of narratives—from our daily inner dialog, to our belief system and way of …
Behavior and Emotion
Behavior ties in with emotion because emotions come with an urge to act. Behavior is sometimes a direct expression of emotion. If we are skilled enough at emotion regulation to take the critical pause, label our emotion, and choose our behavior, it can be a modulated expression of emotion. But does …
Thinking and Behavior
The diagram in our previous post, Behavior, shows how behavior can affect thoughts, and how thoughts can affect behavior. Let’s start by looking at how thoughts can affect behavior. We mentioned the RAI strategy – Reflect As If. This involves reflecting (thinking) on the person we would like to be, …
Behavior
In a previous post Next Up: Feelings, we used this diagram to illustrate how thoughts and feelings influence behavior, and how behavior also influences thoughts and feelings. What do we mean by behavior, as it relates to emotions and thinking? Behavior can be a direct expression of an emotion, …