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New post added at Gate Healing PLLC - Exercise and Depression: How to Get Moving When You Have No Motivation

Exercise and Depression: How to Get Moving When You Have No Motivation There is a particular cruelty to depression. The thing that reliably helps, getting your body moving, is also the thing depression works hardest to take away from you. You read that exercise lifts mood, you believe it, and then you spend another afternoon on the couch unable to explain why

New post added at Gate Healing PLLC - Anticipatory Defensiveness: Bracing for a Fight That Hasn't Started

Communication Killers - Gate Healing PLLC The Gottman Institute identifies six toxic communication patterns that predict relationship failure. Learn what they are, how to recognize them, and what to do instead.

New post added at Gate Healing, PLLC - Mindfulness and Meditation: A Practical Guide to Getting Out of Your Head

Mindfulness and Meditation: A Practical Guide to Getting Out of Your Head Mindfulness and meditation get treated like the same thing, and they overlap, but they are not identical. Meditation is usually the formal practice: sitting, following your breath, returning to an anchor (like your breath) when your attention drifts. Mindfulness is the underlying skill that practice...