If you are a woman â and if youâre not, youâre more than welcome here, too â you have relationships of all shapes and sizes, closeness and casualness, complexity and simplicity. Whether you secretly feel lonely, consider yourself rotten at relationships, or feel like you have too many to ever grab a minute alone, I can guarantee that a significant portion of your mental energy is expended navigating and negotiating the connections you have with the people in your life.
I hope youâre the kind of human being who will smile at the stranger passing you in the grocery store, say good morning even when itâs raining outside and offer your seat on the subway to an elder. Congratulations! These are all tiny little relationships. They mean a lot to the recipient of your seemingly insignificant kindness and consideration.
Why you need to stop thinking so much Alia E. Dastagir, USA TODAY
Ali Stroker book offers representation, empowerment
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When psychotherapist Nancy Colier decided to write a book about addiction to thinking, people told her the premise was absurd. One person called it ridiculous. Another said, “Nothing is possible without thinking!” A friend asked mockingly, “So then, I should face a blank wall and hum Om for the rest of my life? Life is short . I want to be in it!”
It was, Colier writes, as if people thought thinking was life. Can t Stop Thinking: How to Let Go of Anxiety and Free Yourself from Obsessive Rumination (New Harbinger Publications, 160 pp.) isn t an anti-thinking book, she said, but an effort to help people liberate themselves from the obsessive rumination, catastrophizing and negative self-thoughts that have plagued many of her clients over her 25 years in practice.
Why you need to stop thinking so much Alia E. Dastagir, USA TODAY
Ali Stroker book offers representation, empowerment
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When psychotherapist Nancy Colier decided to write a book about addiction to thinking, people told her the premise was absurd. One person called it ridiculous. Another said, “Nothing is possible without thinking!” A friend asked mockingly, “So then, I should face a blank wall and hum Om for the rest of my life? Life is short . I want to be in it!”
It was, Colier writes, as if people thought thinking was life. Can t Stop Thinking: How to Let Go of Anxiety and Free Yourself from Obsessive Rumination (New Harbinger Publications, 160 pp.) isn t an anti-thinking book, she said, but an effort to help people liberate themselves from the obsessive rumination, catastrophizing and negative self-thoughts that have plagued many of her clients over her 25 years in practice.
(l-r) Nicki Breuer and Catherine Ellsmere
Thirty years ago, when Catherine Ellsmere and Nicki Breuer co-founded Odin Books in Vancouver, the idea of a mental-health bookstore was considered provocative. âThe Scientologists werenât that happy with us,â Ellsmere says, recalling arguments with customers who demanded she stock L. Ron Hubbardâs
Dianetics. âWe are very clear that we have evidence-based resources in our store.â
Though the culture has largely realized the importance of psychological wellness, Odin Books is still one of the only bookstores in Canada focused on normalizing conversations around mental health. With the COVID-19 pandemic exacerbating a broad range of mental-health issues, Ellsmere has found a new clientele that is grappling with such dilemmas for the first time. She spoke to