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8 hours ago
3 min

From Change Your Story - Change Your Life: Did Anyone Ever Gag you? Take it Off!

Have you ever felt gagged. What can you do with a gag? Keep wearing it or take it off! How to stop gagging yourself to be yourself.

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Linda Buchanan

Jun 2
5 min

From One Therapist to Another: To Return or Not to Return

Strategies for working through ambivalence about returning to brick and mortar therapy offices.

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Linda Buchanan

May 13
4 min

From Change Your Story: No Need to Socially Distance From Yourself

Are you socially distanced? From yourself? Maybe you don't even realize that people have relationships with themselves but we all do.

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Linda Buchanan

May 3
3 min

From One Therapist to Another: The Covid Coaster

After shelter in place, are we getting back to normal or heading to something new? What are the silver linings that we take from this time?

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Linda Buchanan

Apr 27
3 min

From Change Your Story - Change Your Life: Focus on the Present or the Future in a Pandemic?

Contemplate what this pause in your normal life has given you and what you want to keep when it's over

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Linda Buchanan

Mar 9
3 min

From Change Your Story-Change Your Life: What Lens Do You Use?

What if the things you believe about yourself are actually distortions of the truth? If you could correct your "identity" eyesight it would

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Linda Buchanan

Feb 23
2 min

From Change Your Story - Change Your Life: Is Curiosity a Key to Happiness?

Markham Hied calls curiosity the "secret sauce" to living a happy life. I call it the secret to change as well.

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Linda Buchanan

Feb 2
2 min

Change Your Story - Change Your Life: Are You Kind to People?

Tyler Perry thanks his five year old self and asks what would you say to your self as a child. Increasing compassion through mindfulness.

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Linda Buchanan

Jan 14
3 min

Change Your Story - Change Your Life: Remembering the Good

Did you know that most of us have a negative memory bias that affects our self concept? Try this exercise to reestablish the truth.

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Linda Buchanan

Dec 2, 2019
5 min

From Change Your Story-Change Your Life: Six things to Stop Doing in Psychotherapy for Rapid Results

f you're in psychotherapy and you aren't seeing the changes that you want to see happen quickly enough, you might want to consider the follo

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Linda Buchanan

Nov 25, 2019
4 min

Change Your Story-Change Your Life: What Verb Tense Are you Living In?

What tense are you in? Are you in the moment that you are currently having? Does that sound like a crazy question? Peace comes in the presen

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Linda Buchanan

Nov 9, 2019
4 min

From Change Your Story - Change Your Life: What is a Defense Mechanism?

Defense mechanisms are natural and normal however the more often we use them the less uncomfortable we need to feel to resort to them .

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Linda Buchanan

Oct 29, 2019
6 min

From One Therapist to Another: 10 Most Common Therapist Mistakes

10 most common mistakes that therapists make. Therapists can improve their effectiveness by increasing awareness of these common mistakes.

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Linda Buchanan

Oct 13, 2019
3 min

From Change Your Story - Change Your Life: Sand/Stone Story

Do you seem to hold onto hurts with more energy than you count your blessings? Most people do. Here's a strategy to change that ratio.

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Linda Buchanan

Sep 30, 2019
3 min

From Change Your Story - Change Your Life: My Circus - My Monkeys

That awful moment when you realize this is your circus and those are your monkeys. We all have them right. Don't compare to others - accept.

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Linda Buchanan

Sep 17, 2019
3 min

Change Your Story - Change Your Life: 4 Keys to Finding Freedom

Freedom doesn’t come from having the best job, best relationship, more money or accomplishments. It’s much more basic than that and more wit

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Linda Buchanan

Aug 19, 2019
3 min

From Change Your Story - Change Your Life: Emotions Hurt

Emotions can hurt but to numb them takes a strong counter emotion which can bring another set of painful emotions such as with addiction.

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Linda Buchanan

Jul 31, 2019
4 min

From Change Your Story - Change Your Life: Know Thyself!

Becoming self-aware is the first step in having control over your present and your future experiences rather than being imprisoned by habit.

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