What’s in it for me? A therapist’s toolkit for life’s most trying challenges. Nobody’s happy all the time. Fluctuating moods are a universal part of the human experience. But sometimes, when a low mood is lasting or recurs very often, we tend to think it’s because of hardwiring in our brains, and that we don’t have any influence over our painful emotions. Dr. Julie Smith, clinical psychologist and social media star, is here to show us that we do have influence over our emotions. Her book Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before? details strategies for managing our mental health in our daily lives. She shows us that we have more control over our mental health than most of us are taught to believe. In this Blink, we’ll outline some of the most important and accessible strategies you can implement today that will help you build resilience and grow better at managing your moods over time. As you discover that your mental well-being is more within reach than it can seem, you just may find yoursel...

Overview Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself: How to Lose Your Mind and Create a New One (2012) by Dr. Joe Dispenza is a self-help book about shaking off negativity and using meditation to effect positive change. Many people don’t realize how much their mental life directs their physical experience of the world. The connection between subjective and objective reality, and mind and matter, is very strong. Reality is pliable; it’s something that everyone constructs mentally each day. People who don’t consciously construct their reality surrender control over it, and often become mired in negativity. It’s easy to believe that circumstances shape thoughts and feelings. But really the opposite is true: thoughts and feelings shape circumstances. Most people’s brains respond to their external realities, perpetuating whatever problems they’re experiencing. To break free from an existing problem, the brain must proactively imagine the world in a new way, which will affect material reality. An ...