While addictive behaviors reduce the short term pain we experience, the longer term utilization of these activities often undermines our ability to align our actions and our values (do the important stuff).  Addiction also increases our belief that there is nothing we can do to change.  We begin to feel stuck because the ways we calm and soothe ourselves is also causing us to feel like we can’t move forward.   It is difficult to connect with ourselves when we are so distracte

What are values?    Values are the parts our life that are most important to us.  Values indicate how we want to behave – how we want to treat ourselves, others, and the world around us. As such, they guide us in determining what is right and important in our lives, and they also help us to make choices.    It is important to aligned our actions with our values What does it mean to align our actions and our values?   When our actions are in alignment with our values, we enga

Understanding and working with anxiety.