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.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Anxiety | Mindfulness Based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

The Pendulum

ByPaul Brennan RPsych March 27, 2016April 4, 2016

Imagine a feeling, any feeling or emotion. How long will it last? Imagine a pendulum. The higher you lift it in one direction, the more power you give it to swing up on the other side. You will perhaps notice its weight and resistance even more when you let it go. It is the same with feelings –…

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy | Anger Management

Your life as a movie

ByPaul Brennan RPsych March 27, 2016April 4, 2016

Picture your life as a movie. The first episodes have already been shot. Now the production is moving on. Imagine that you are the director and you can direct an actor that plays your part. But you’re a special kind of director with limited power. You can’t go to the screenplay writer and ask him to change the…

Anger Management | Values

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…

The Joy of Missing Out

ByPaul Brennan RPsych January 23, 2017

According to Wikipedia, the fear of missing out or FOMO is “a pervasive apprehension that others might be having rewarding experiences from which one is absent”. This can show up as “a desire to stay continually connected with what others are doing”. FOMO is everywhere in modern, urban life. Most of the time it’s a minor irritant but it…

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…

Anger Management | Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Anxiety | Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Depression

“I’ve blown it so I might as well go out in style!”

ByPaul Brennan RPsych August 17, 2016December 7, 2016

Researchers actually do call it the “what the heck” effect (or something close to that). It refers to the moment when you realize that you’ve blown your calorie goal for the day, so you might as well order pizza and beer. Or the moment when you have one cigarette at a party and go on…

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