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The Most Important Skill Set in Mental Health

by Steve Hayes | Aug 12, 2022 | Anxiety, Depression, Health, Mental Disorders, Mindfulness, Pain, psychological flexibility

Why does psychotherapy work? Until relatively recently, many scientists studying methods of improving mental and behavioral health have delayed answering that question. Instead, they argued, it’s better first to ask if a method works, and when we know that it does,...

What Your Body Knows That You Don’t

by Steve Hayes | Jun 15, 2022 | Acceptance, Anxiety, Avoidance, Cognition, Depression, Emotion

Life is constantly teaching you to be smarter and wiser. With every consequence you face, you learn more about which actions likely lead to pleasure, and which actions likely result in pain. For instance, if you see a glowing, red circle on top of a stove, and you...

Movies, Avocados, And Learning To Deal With Pain

by Steve Hayes | May 22, 2022 | Acceptance, Anxiety, Anxiety Disorders, Depression, Emotion, Human Suffering, Pain

Screens are everywhere in the modern world. We hang them on our walls and call them televisions; we haul them in our book bags and call them laptops; we carry them in our pockets and call them smartphones. What is on all of these screens is literally everything we can...

The Secret Formula of Self-Kindness

by Steve Hayes | Apr 30, 2022 | Acceptance, Anxiety, Depression, Emotion, Happiness, Human Beings, Human Suffering, Pain, Relationships

Imagine you had a friend who is there for you whenever you need them. Someone who cares about you, who listens patiently, and who is kind, forgiving, and compassionate. It’s probably fair to say that we all would want a friend like this. And even more: We likely all...

How To Stop Sabotaging Yourself

by Steve Hayes | Apr 4, 2022 | Anxiety, Depression, Emotion, Human Suffering

Why do we lash out at our partner, when we want to be kind and caring? Why do we isolate ourselves, when we already feel lonely, and crave connection? Why do we drink alcohol, smoke tobacco, and give in to other vices, when it harms our health? And why do we know all...

What To Do When Your World is Falling Apart

by Steve Hayes | Mar 19, 2022 | Anxiety, Health, Human Suffering

There are few events as traumatizing as war. As a soldier, you constantly face the odds of death or serious injury, while being ordered to inflict those same odds on enemy soldiers. As a refugee, you have to abandon life as you knew it, together with most of your...
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