Are you choosing to stay miserable? Pain is inevitable in life, but suffering is optional. Pain is temporary but suffering is long lasting. Pain can be overcome, suffering hits hard and can create compounding issues. This is the final episode to the mini series on overcoming any issues in your life. You can accept the situation, change the situation, change your perspective on the situation or you can choose to stay miserable! Buckle up for this hard hitter!

Now that you understand the importance of practicing radical acceptance, the doors are now unlocked for you to choose the following: Choice #2 Change The Situation or Choice #3 Change Your Perspective.  Let's face it, life is really hard and there will always be something that causes us some amount of pain.  But with learning The Four Choices from Dialectical Behavior Therapy, you will be one step closer to emotional freedom regardless of any situation you face! If you didn't catch part 1, start there (Radical Acceptance), otherwise enjoy today's episode and look for next week's final part to this mini series!

Last week you learned how to catch, check and change your unhealthy thoughts and this week we are going to continue down the path of CHANGE by digging into Dialectical Behavior Therapy.  Get ready for a HARD HITTER! This one is going to smack you upside the back of your head (lovingly, of course!) and get you prepared to make those much needed changes in your life. 

Do you ever notice that you have strong emotional reactions to situations, people and things and wonder what got you fired up?  It's all in your beliefs and your thoughts! The beliefs we hold produce the thoughts we have about any given experience and often times those beliefs and thoughts are rooted in distortion. Join me to learn a quick little phrase to help you challenge unhealthy, irrational beliefs and thinking patterns!

Understandably, more than a few of my clients report feelings of depression or lack of joy in their lives. Together we work on challenging their irrational belief systems and unhealthy thinking patterns, and inevitably the conversation will also turn to where to find it in their lives. 

You know … it.  

How to make magic out of your ordinary life, begins now...

Expanded version on the blog:
https://insessionwithangelafahmy.com/making-magic-out-of-the-mundane/

What if you walked through everyday life with a new fresh perspective, able to see the beauty in even the most routine of activities? 

How often do we take the time to pause and reflect on all that is good in life?  Sure life has its moments of pain, stress and burden but there is still so much good. Let's take a few minutes together. 

Let's take a break together. Our lives are full of distraction, overfilled with appointments and expectations. Always a place be, rushing from here to there. Let's pause that for a moment, drown out the noise, turn up the volume on having more joy in your day today.