[Depression & Anxiety] YouTube Yoga

Here are the channels I have tried and would like to share with you. Before I get into the details of why I like each channel, I want to answer this commonly asked question: how do you know which one you are going to do? My first criteria are “how much time do I have?” Most of the channels created the playlist based on the length of the program. I generally go into the playlist with the time I have. My second criteria are how I feel about my body at the moment. If I feel very sore, I might do a deep stretch. If I feel the need to have more exercise, I might go with a flow type of yoga. Most of the channels provide the playlist that group the similar type of yoga together. 

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[Podacst of the Week][12/3/18] Angry? Try Loving Kindness

Anger is one of the natural emotions, which means we can’t get rid of it. The point is not to get rid of the anger but to experience more positive emotions in our daily lives. I will still be angry when someone crosses my boundary, but I can also experience different feelings instead of being consumed by anger.

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Change is Hard (Part III)–How Do We Change it?

     If you didn’t have an adult to provide the boundary of safety to allow you to experience change as a child, find a friend or a therapist to be that adult figure for you. You do not need to do it alone. Let your therapist or your friend help you figure out the boundary between safety and danger. Let this person help you to balance the feeling of anxiety and excitement for change. Let this person accompany you to experience those unfamiliar feelings or unknown territories. 

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Change is Hard (Part I)— Is it possible?

We all know that personality is generally pretty stable even though the recent studies have shown that personality does change over time for the better (but a slow and gradual process). One of the main reasons the personality change happens when a person chooses to do so to live a meaningful and successful life. So, if no choice is made and no action is taken, a person’s personality can stay the same or change slow and gradually throughout the years. 

So, the bottom line is: if you want the change, you are the one who has to make up your mind and to take action.

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Change your thoughts doesn’t necessarily lead to change your feelings.

““In any situation, planned or unexpected, we all have the desired outcome. In spite of doing the best we could and chose the best option at the time, the actual result may not the desired outcome we would like it to be. When the real outcome and the desired outcome were different, the difference between them already caused a sense of loss. We can try to reason with ourselves why the decision we made or the choice we pick was the best one. It didn’t change the loss between the desired outcome and the actual outcome.”

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Family Life Cycle and Couple Relationship: What Does Cedar Cove Teach Us (Part 6)

This theory tremendously helpful to understand the couples’ relationship history. It helps to see how the couples transit from one stage to another and whether they made the transition successfully. If not, it helps me and the couple to evaluate how have they tried to cope with the issues successfully or destructively. Even in the “complicated situation” such as divorce or blended family, the theory also helps me and the couple to see what are the needs for them to cope with being different stages in their relationship.

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I am Dr. Grace Chen, a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist.