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How Relationships Impact Health

October 27, 2024Anxiety, Define self, health
Stressed Woman

New research shows how our thinking can impact our gut health and trigger an immune system reaction. Chronic anxiety in relationships can activate this pathway. Define self could be more important to overall health that most people realize.

Radical Acceptance and Bowen Theory

September 13, 2024Anxiety, attachment, cut off

A family system perspective can make all the difference to adopting radical acceptance of a situation. For many people, the shift from an individual model perspective to a family emotional systems perspective is a radical thing to accept. But the core of radical acceptance theory is understanding and acknowledging “what is”. What Dr. Bowen observed, understood and acknowledged was that families operate as an emotional unit.

Can anxiety be bound

July 15, 2024Anxiety, differentiation
Anxiety builds up

YES. And anxiety binding has positive and negative aspects to it.

Dr. Kerr wrote a lot about anxiety binding behaviour. He is the author of Family Evaluation, one of the original “source materials” on Bowen Family Systems. The system’s idea that a behaviour can bind anxiety is important when trying to improve one’s functioning.

Perceptions Matter

April 23, 2023Anxiety, emotional system
perception of social threats activate social genonmic networks
Perceptions matter - just ask your genes! A newer field of study in biology is called social genomics. It is the study of how and when different genes are activated based on social interactions. On one level, it is very obvious that relationships aff

3 Steps to Great Decisions

July 22, 2022Anxiety
Great decisions
Great decision-making always involves emotional processes and some level of value judgement. After all, decision-making is about choosing, and what we choose is based on subjective values of what’s better or worse for the situation. Decisions are b

Can defining self overcome languishing?

April 15, 2022Anxiety, Define self
Stressd Couple
Can defining self help with languishing? What is languishing and how could defining self help overcome it? A 2021 New York Times article discussed the concept of languishing and suggested that it could be the dominant emotion of 2021. If Bowen Theory