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Build Resilience for Life

By John Gassaway, PsyD | Apr 2, 2022

Resilience is oftentimes thought of as the ability to bounce back from a challenge — something you find in yourself (or not) only at the moment of crisis. But we…

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Graded Exposure Meets Us Where We Are

By John Gassaway, PsyD | Mar 17, 2022

We can feel very overwhelmed by life’s demands but utilizing Graded Exposure meets us where we are. Deciding to engage in a new exercise regime or starting a new diet…

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Coping With Loss

By John Gassaway, PsyD | Feb 2, 2022

The culture of the United States of American is not particularly conducive to coping with loss. This is unfortunate, as loss is a fundamental and inescapable feature of human life.…

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Moving from Motivation to Grit

By John Gassaway, PsyD | May 28, 2021

When we want to remain steadfast, determined, and successful with an endeavor, we are likely moving from motivation to grit. Motivation is extremely important to help us work through challenges…

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Flow State and Memory

By John Gassaway, PsyD | May 28, 2021

There are considerable similarities of flow state in a vast number of accounts but that does not mean the experience is uniform. Flow state generally reveals a slowing of time…

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Coping with COVID: Year 2 (Part 3)

By John Gassaway, PsyD | Jan 31, 2021

Learning from ourselves and our ability to be resilient will help us to move through significant difficulties.

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Coping with COVID: Year 2 (Part 2)

By John Gassaway, PsyD | Jan 31, 2021

Coping with COVID in the second year leaves us to question “What will ‘normal’ look like once we have a system in place that protects us from this pandemic?” The…

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Coping with COVID: Year 2 (Part 1)

By John Gassaway, PsyD | Jan 31, 2021

Dealing with the stress of COVID we can learn from the past year.

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Coping with COVID

By John Gassaway, PsyD | Sep 16, 2020

We are all dealing with the difficulties that the pandemic has presented , there may be some easier ways to cope.

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