How Regret Can Change Your Life
I'd like to tell you about what might be the most important book published in my field this year (and it's only February!): Dan Pink’s The Power of Regret: How…
Posted inCovid Habit & Time Management Parenting
Adults: It’s Time To Pay Attention To Your Own Lives
“Character — the ability to accept responsibility for one’s own life — is the source from which self-respect springs.” — Joan Didion, UC Berkeley ’56. With inspiration from the acclaimed…
Posted inCovid Grief and Loss Self-Help Students
4 Takeaways From A Therapist in 2021
“The psychology of returning” is a phrase I’ve come up with the describe this chapter in the pandemic. It’s such a big topic that I even created a talk around…
Go Find Your Wise Mind If It’s Gone Missing
As a tennis player, I occasionally mis-hit a ball on the frame instead of the strings (also known as a “shank”, the player therefore known as a “Shank-a-potamus”, and the…
Posted inAnxiety Covid Depression Relationships Self-Help Students
5 Simple Strategies for College Students
If you are on your undergraduate journey right now, you’re probably trying to have some form of a college experience during an ever-present pandemic. Whether it’s a return to familiar…
How to Help Your Student Face Another Pandemic School Year
A year and a half is a very long time for a child. For much of the COVID-19 pandemic, schooling meant sitting in front of a screen. Parents helped young…
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The Psychology of Returning: Inner World, Meet Outer World
This isn’t your basic comeback, what we are trying to do. I’ve written about personal comebacks before. This is more than recovering from the depression of so much loss, the…
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What Working At a Hospital Taught A Therapist About Resilience
As human beings, we experience fear that horribly unexpected life-altering events might happen to us. This fear often manifests itself by provoking catastrophic thoughts. For example, “this bump on my…
Posted inCBT in Action
What Makes A Good Therapist?
We at Loyal Blue are dedicated to the practice of good therapy. We believe it is our duty as trained behavioral health experts to use evidence-based approaches like cognitive behavioral…
Radical Acceptance! What Is It And How To Practice It
Having lived through a pandemic, we all learned a thing or two about radical acceptance without even knowing it. It took many of us weeks to months to accept the…