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Jul 5
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 15
3 min

Change Your Story - Change Your Life: Three Ways to Keep Negative Thoughts From Having the Last Word

Strategies for conquering negative thinking. Don't let a negative thought have the last word.

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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 10
2 min

Mother's Day - Happy?

Today is the day that we celebrate our mothers. Consider the very most positive moments you had with your mom growing up and honor those mem

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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 16
3 min

From Change Your Story - Change Your Life: How can the Mona Lisa help with Covid-19?

How could the Mona Lisa smile help us see the silver lining as we try to cope with the pandemic.

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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

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 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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Linda Buchanan

Jul 14, 2019
3 min

From Change Your Story-Change Your Life

When someone attempts to find a sense of worth by controlling their body, they find themselves in a never ending process of jumping

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Linda Buchanan

Jun 23, 2019
3 min

From Change Your Story - Change Your Life

Have you ever told yourself that you can't ask directly for something you need? Have you felt like you had to earn love? You may manipulate!

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Linda Buchanan

Jun 11, 2019
5 min

From Change Your Story - Change Your Life

What IS an Inner Child Anyway? Do you ever feel like a little kid when you are around your boss or your parents even though you are an adult

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