Feeling anxious or overwhelmed? Struggling to calm down? We all face this from time to time, and a quick immediate way to get relief is to control our breathing. Here are three breathing techniques to try yourself.

Has depression started taking over your life? When we start feeling depression is part of who we are as a person, it’s time to take action. This post teaches an intervention called Externalizing the Problem where you realize you are not the problem, the problem is the problem. Sound interesting? I think so too. Read on to see how to implement this in your life.

Curious if exercise can help alleviate your depression or anxiety? Not sure how much exercise or what type of exercise is the effective dose? This post summarizes the research and gives you clear guidance on why this is important, and how to implement.

Learning what we say to ourselves and changing it over time can be very helpful in social anxiety treatment. The more you practice gently replacing those negative thoughts with more realistic ones, you will find your social anxiety starts to dissipate.

Do you ever find yourself only focusing on the negative during the week? It’s common for us to have “a bad day” when things just don’t seem to go our way. Life happens. But when this becomes a consistent pattern, you should become a bit more concerned and might be experiencing a cognitive distortion called mental filtering.

Learning what we say to ourselves and changing it over time can be very helpful in social anxiety treatment. The more you practice gently replacing those negative thoughts with more realistic ones, you will find your social anxiety starts to dissipate.

What is All or Nothing Thinking? This is also sometimes called dichotomous thinking and is a very common way of thinking among perfectionists. Essentially, this type of thinking leaves no grey area or middle ground.

One key tenant of CBT is that when we change the way we think, we change our emotions. Therefore, identifying and modifying cognitive distortions is a key part of CBT. Now it’s important to differentiate between cognitive biases and cognitive distortions.

One question that we hear often is how different types of perfectionists cope with stress and anxiety in their lives. There has been a lot of research conducted on this already, so let us take a look at some of the different coping strategies utilized.

Do you have high standards for yourself and others? Do you get a sense of satisfaction in your work and relationships, when you are doing things perfectly? Do you find yourself getting frustrated at times with others and yourself when you are not able to be as exacting your work? If so, you might be a perfectionist.

I was interviewed for a Vice.com article about perfectionism. It details the differences between two types of perfectionists (plus non-perfectionists).

What are the differences between healthy and unhealthy perfectionism? How can you tell if someone is a perfectionist? And what do you do about that?

Counseling (also called psychotherapy or talk therapy) is effective. A very large amount of evidence collected over 100 years shows that approximately 80% of people who attend counseling are significantly better off than those who do not.