Anger Management | Mindfulness Based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

The Battlefield

ByPaul Brennan RPsych March 27, 2016April 4, 2016

You’ve been trying to win the war with your mind, with your anxiety, with your depression, with your anger, with whatever. True? Well, acceptance is about letting the war roll on while you leave the battlefield.

The mind is like a GPS

ByPaul Brennan RPsych March 27, 2016April 4, 2016

Our mind is like a GPS. These systems are very convenient and useful. But it’s still important to keep one’s eyes wide open and look out of the window from time to time. Some people have ended up driving into a river because a bridge had gone down and the system hadn’t been updated. In…

The Difficult Art of Self-Compassion

ByPaul Brennan RPsych March 14, 2017March 14, 2017

The Difficult Art of Self-Compassion “To survive in this high-pressured, crazy world, most of us have to become highly adept at self-criticism. We learn how to tell ourselves off for our failures, and for not working hard or smart enough. But so good are we at this that we’re sometimes in danger of falling prey…

The Sushi Train

ByPaul Brennan RPsych May 11, 2017May 11, 2017

Ride the Sushi Train of the Mind My daughter used to love those restaurants where sushi dishes paraded past on a little train track. Long-time Edmontonions may remember that there used to be one in WEM. In this new video, Russ Harris uses the sushi train as a beautiful metaphor for the relationship that we all…

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The Clutch

ByPaul Brennan RPsych March 27, 2016April 4, 2016

Imagine that you are driving a car on a journey. However, you begin to notice over time that the engine in this car is very finicky, almost as if it has a mind of its own. It occasionally revs up very high, or bogs down low. As it does this, the car speeds up or slows to…

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy | Anger Management

Two Mountains

ByPaul Brennan RPsych March 27, 2016April 4, 2016

Imagine that you are in the process of climbing up a big mountain that has lots of dangerous places on it. And imagine that my job is to watch out for you and shout out directions if I can see places you might slip or hurt yourself. But I’m not able to do this because…

Anger Management

Looking “at” your thoughts not “from” your thoughts

ByPaul Brennan RPsych February 12, 2016April 5, 2016

Many of us struggle with thoughts that are difficult, painful, unhelpful or just annoying. Part of the problem is that these thoughts tend to follow us around: Even if we go to Mexico, our painful thoughts will probably come along for the ride. Of course there are many distractions that we can use to…

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