Mind Excessively Wandering Scale (MEWS)

An Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Metaphor Your feelings about this person/situation is like having a fish on a hook. As long as the person/situation is there in front of you, you can see that he/she/it is wriggling and in pain. But the only way to make sure that he/she/it stays on that fishhook is to…

An Acceptance and Commitment Metaphor Many of our goals involve getting rid of something or stopping something. We might call these  “dead man goals” because a dead man could achieve them perfectly well.  What would it be like to have  goals that required us to be alive?

An Acceptance and Commitment metaphor Suppose you are taking a hike in the mountains. You know how mountain trials are constructed, especially if the slopes are steep. They wind back and forth; often have “switchbacks”, which make you literally walk back and forth, and sometimes a trail will even drop back to below a level…