Category: Perception

• Are You “Shoulding” on Yourself?

  

  Feeling stuck? Sometimes we get in our own way by thinking that we should take one particular path to reach our goal. Stop “shoulding” on yourself!

  Scott Kahler, PhD, LMFT, CPC

  Goals, Perception

  All roads lead to Rome, Equifinality, Goals, Perception, Running, Shoulding, Writing

• Paint the Elephant: Daring to Enjoy the Holidays

  

  “Paint the elephant.” Allow yourself to make mistakes, to get things wrong, and yet … to have a grand time anyway.

  Laurie Budlong-Morse

  Anxiety, Guest Author, Perception

  Anxious thinking, Attention, Big Magic, Calm, Elizabeth Gilbert, Holidays, Outcome, Perception, Process, Self-help

• Sailing Into the Wind: Pacing Change

  

  Wherever you are right now in the process of change, congratulate yourself for being brave enough to start the journey.

  Laurie Budlong-Morse

  Goals, Guest Author, Perception

  Caught in irons, Change, Collaborative therapy, Goals, Pacing, Perception, Postmodern therapy, Self-help, Solution-focused therapy, Tacking upwind

• Assumptions: A Phantom Menace

  

  Some thoughts and beliefs are helpful to us — they expand what is possible for us; others can limit our view, and so our experiences of life.

  Scott Kahler, PhD, LMFT, CPC

  Energy Blocks, Perception

  Anabolic energy, Anxious thinking, Assumptions, Catabolic energy, Cognitive behavioral approach, Energy blocks, Perception, Star Wars, The Phantom Menace

• What’s Limiting You?

  

  How is the way that you are seeing things influencing what is possible for you? What are other thoughts and beliefs that would be more helpful?

  Scott Kahler, PhD, LMFT, CPC

  Anxiety, Energy Blocks, Perception

  Anabolic energy, Anxiety, Bruce D. Schneider, Catabolic energy, Cognitive behavioral approach, Energy blocks, Limiting beliefs, Orison Swett Marden, Perception, Roger Bannister

• Through A Glass Darkly

  

  We can all get stuck in ways of looking at life that break us down rather than build us up. Join me in cleaning your own invisible eyeglasses of perception!

  Scott Kahler, PhD, LMFT, CPC

  Energy Blocks, Perception

  Anabolic energy, Assumptions, Bruce D. Schneider, Catabolic energy, Cognitive behavioral therapy, Energy blocks, Energy Leadership, Gremlins, Inner Critic, Interpretations, Limiting beliefs, P.J. O’Rourke, Perception

• What Do You Choose to See?

  

  There is always more than one way to look at things. In your life, who or what are you seeing in ways that aren’t working? What would a different way be?

  Scott Kahler, PhD, LMFT, CPC

  Perception, Perspective

  Anger, Anxiety, Barry Neil Kaufman, Behavior, Calm, Confidence, Duck-Rabbit illusion, Interpretations, Perception, Perspective