Bumps in the road

Here are four techniques that you can choose to do in moments when you feel high levels of distress or overwhelm. This is taken from Dialectical Behaviour Therapy. I came across them when listening to a series of podcast episodes with Shireen Rizvi.

How to create a balance that helps you to be productive and look after yourself. We often think it is a choice between one or the other. It's not.

This episode we look at the benefit of nothingness. Well, it is really about giving your brain a break from information overload and letting it do what it's good at...processing. It is in this nothingness that great things happen.

Progress isn't linear. Managing your expectations around new habits is crucial to their success.

How to change the demands you impose on yourself to preferences that work in your favour.

This episode we look at two aspects of time that can get us into a little bit of trouble: the planning fallacy and the other one…listen to find out what they are and how you can avoid them.

6 tips to help those conversations with difficult people feel more in your control. This podcast was inspired by Mel Robbins podcastwith Jefferson Fisher, "How to handle difficult people and talk back your peace and power". Most of the tips came from there.

Your belief in your own abilities and skills is quite powerful.

We don't know why people choose to behave in a certain way, yet often we are quick to judge their actions. What if we imagined good intentions? How would that impact on how you responded and felt? Today's episode is inspired by Seth Gillihan and William B Irvine's approach to others.

This is for those thoughts that don't respond to logic or indeed the other techniques we've looked at…the What ifs…