Depression: Gaining a Better Understanding
A change in your behavior can be caused by a change in your environment due to a life event. Likewise, a change in your automatic thoughts (images/words that randomly pop into your head) can influence how you feel, both emotionally and physically, therefore resulting in a change in your behavior. Typically, when a mood is experienced, there is a thought connected to it that helps define it. Mood intensity may cause a distortion in the thought; therefore, it is important to check the validity of our moods and beliefs.
Letting Go of Control: What It Really Means to Surrender
As human beings, we’re built for survival, and for a long time, control helped keep us safe. Even now, it still serves a purpose. We make choices, set boundaries, and shape parts of our lives. That can feel grounding, even empowering.
But what happens when life doesn’t cooperate? When something unexpected hits, or when, no matter how tightly we try to hold things together, it still falls apart? For many of us, control quietly shifts from being helpful to becoming exhausting. And sometimes, without realizing it, control itself becomes the thing keeping us stuck.