A post about finding meaning in the meaningless. A message of hope from a Holocaust survivor who found meaning in Auschwitz....
For most of my life, my mind has taken on a life of its own. I’ve spent many sleepless nights due to the spinning hamster wheel in my head. Thoughts of not being good enough, fear of failure, and not being worthy swirled round and...
“I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.” — Thomas Jefferson I love this quote because I am not superstitious. I don’t particularly believe in fate, or the universe working for or against us at...
For most of my life, I really didn’t think I was particularly smart. However, despite lacking confidence in my capabilities, I nonetheless tended to believe most of my thoughts as if they were true. The thing about thoughts, though, is that we create them. They originate...
These 4 concepts are likely to tear a relationship apart through time (or make them miserable). So, listen closely and take notice because, sometimes, we all have to check ourselves before we wreck ourselves....
By Dana Maloney, Founder of Good Enough Therapist (GET) Believe it or not, anxiety is the most common mental health crisis on the planet, even though worrying is completely and utterly irrational. It’s irrational because it won’t change a thing, yet we spend so much time on it. How...
By Dana Maloney, Founder of Good Enough Therapist (GET). "Black and white thinking," AKA "all-or-nothing thinking," is a cognitive distortion discussed in the evidence-based theory, CBT (cognitive behavioral therapy). Cognitive distortions occur when our minds convince ourselves of something that isn’t true, preventing us from seeing ourselves and the world...
One of the goals for this blog is for me to be transparent and to open up a dialogue where therapy is seen as a strength, rather than a taboo issue to talk about. That said, I will be honest about my 20+ years (on and...
There is a scene from the the 1993 classic movie, Cool Runnings, where one of the characters, the self-conscious Junior, is uplifted by his brawny teammate, Yul Brenner. They look in the mirror and repeat the words, “I see pride. I see power. I see...