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Be yourself anxiety, beliefs, checking, compulsions, controlling, exercise, intrusive thoughts, lying, mental health at work, recovery, skills, The Mind Workout, video, work, work stress

Digging into intrusive thoughts to clear a way out of them

January 5, 2018 Mark

Recently, Matt and I did a couple of videos exploring intrusive thoughts or anxieties and why it’s useful to look at why we’re afraid of the consequences of those thoughts or anxieties coming true. There’s an exercise for doing that, The 5 Whys, which I shared in my book, The Mind Workout, and Matt explains…

Be yourself, Personal anxiety, crossfit, emotions, exercise, failure, fitness, gym, lived experience, peer support, practice, psychology, recovery, rowing, skills, squats, success, therapy, weightlifting

Why peer support is so damn useful for mental illness recovery.

October 3, 2017 Mark

We could also call this: Recovery is like rowing. You’ll be bad at both until you’re not. And then you’ll just push harder. If you’re working with a personal trainer on your physical fitness, it’s not strange if you expect to work with somebody that’s in better shape than you, that practices the skills you…