How to Avoid Drama!
“Drama doesn’t just walk into our life. We either invite it, create it, or keep it alive by associating with it.”
~ Adapted from Brooke Hampton
Why “Just Breathe” Just Isn’t Enough
“Deep breathing can create enough space to experience an emotion without losing control, but it only minimizes the problem, it doesn’t create a solution!”
~ Bill Crawford, PhD
The Gap That Kills Change!
“Every worthwhile change effort creates a gap between effort and evidence. That gap is where most people give up.”
~ Shawn Thomas
A Question That Can Change Your Life!
“The question to ask each night before you go to bed: If I live every day the same way I did today, what kind of future would that create?”
~ Bill Crawford, PhD
The Paradox of Forgiveness
“I will no longer hold on to images of being hurt in the past as a way of staying safe in the future.”
~ Bill Crawford, PhD
How To know Whether To Trust What We Fear, or What We Know
“When faced with conflicting thoughts and emotions, we must decide what to trust, what we fear, or what we know. What’s important is that this decision be made by the knowledgeable versus the anxious part of the brain!.”
~ Bill Crawford, PhD
The Neuroscience of Excitement Versus Anxiety
“Adrenaline paired with joy is excitement… adrenaline paired with worry or fear is anxiety.”
~ Bill Crawford, PhD
What to Change and Why
“”What we aren’t changing, we are choosing.”
~ Laurie Buchanan”
and
“What we condone we codify.”
~ Bill Crawford, PhD
The Problem with “Constructive Criticism”
“Criticism can be effective when there is something that must be destroyed or dissolved, but it is capable only of harm when there is something to be built.”
~ Carl Jung