Tag: Tian Dayton
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My Mental Health: An Affirmation
“I have always believed, and I still believe that whatever good fortune or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something else.”rn -Hermann Hessern Just as I wear a mask to protect myself and others from an airborne virus, I will take daily steps to care…
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A Return to Uncertainty: Tips for Staying Safe and Sane During COVID’s Second Round
Summer has been a welcome reprieve for many. We’ve had a moment to catch our breath, enjoy the soothing world of nature, and have some socially distanced fun. But as businesses and institutions open up again, uncertainty inevitably returns. Sending children to school in masks and not knowing when a virus might break out, makes…
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Leaning into Program Wisdom During COVID-19: How the Slogans Shape our Thinking, Feeling, Actions, and Day
When COVID began, I had a strange déjà vu feeling. I have been here before, but how exactly? I wondered. Then I remembered. All the days of uncertainty, all the mornings waking up afraid of what the day might bring, the feeling that life as I knew it was chaotic and changing, that normal routines…
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When Hidden Grief Gets Triggered During COVID-19 Confinement
How to Use These Days to Heal Old Wounds Rather than Reenact Them Our sense of loss during the current COVID-19 crisis can trigger hidden emotions from when we experienced a sense of loss before. Whatever early losses you have had in your life — whether they be your own divorce, your parents, or both,…
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A Day at a Time: How to Apply 12-Step Principles During COVID-19 Times
Learn how to apply 12-step principles effectively during challenging times like COVID-19 to support your recovery journey.
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Why Loving What You Have Can Feel Scary for Those Who’ve Had Adverse Childhood Experiences
To ring in the New Year, I could quote statistics of how certain feelings benefit your cholesterol levels and pump up your immune system and extend your life by 2.3 years. We could discuss that science has proven that appreciation begets happiness and happiness is healthy. But you’ve already heard all that. So on the…
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The Many Masks of Unresolved Grief
Unresolved grief hides behind masks like anger or withdrawal. Discover how to identify these signs and begin healing through understanding.
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How Psychodrama Heals Trauma
Learn how psychodrama therapy helps heal trauma by exploring emotions and experiences in a safe, supportive environment.
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Write a Love Letter to Your Inner Child
Write a love letter to your inner child, to that part of you that is young, playful, innocent and vulnerable. That part of you who you need to be listening to, who you need to be on good terms with so that you can feel spontaneous, alive and creative! Letter Writing: https://www.tiandayton.com/emotionexplorer/letter-writing Then: Reverse roles…
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Laughter: Why It’s So Important
Why do we need to laugh? And what can laughter do for us that nothing else can? Well for starters, laughter is a complex brain/body catharsis, if you will, that is cleansing and enlivening mentally, physically, emotionally, and socially. Let’s face it, we all love that person who makes us laugh. A good laugh helps…
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Oh There’s No Place Like Home for the Holidays
How the Legacy of Unresolved Familial Trauma Can Emerge Around the Holidays “We are threatened with suffering from three directions: from our body, which is doomed to decay…, from the external world which may rage against us with overwhelming and merciless force of destruction, and finally from our relations with other men… This last source…
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Mothering and Codependency: A Catalyst for Personal Growth
If I had been more honest with myself and diagrammed my family when my children were young, I would have made myself smaller than anyone else. What I learned through my own ACA/codependency recovery was that if I kept doing that, I was not, in fact, serving my children nor myself nor my husband. Trauma…