Category: how the brain works
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Types of Journaling: Why You Should Care
By Carissa Weber, MA, LPC, CSAC This post contains links to my journaling course, Journaling with a Purpose! Time for your break from emotional regulation for this short post about the many forms of journaling. Some of you may have already heard the terms guided journaling, bullet journaling, dream journaling, and even art journaling. But […]
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Mental Health Journaling: Why it Works
By Carissa Weber, MA, LPC, CSAC Ah yes, journaling! I interrupt our post series on emotional regulation to bring you journaling. This humble, but effective coping skill is often overlooked, but why? I decided in honor of my new program, Journaling with a Purpose, I should take some time to talk more about the marvelous […]
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Fight-Flight-Freeze: The Ultimate Coping Skill
By Carissa Weber Humans are not born with a lot of instincts. Our whole human survival has hinged on our ability to learn how to avoid things that can kill us. Whether from avoiding poisonous berries and not getting eaten, to more present problems like our being stuck in traffic or wrestling a fitted sheet, […]
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Easter and the Brain: Why we can’t get Enough Chocolate?
By Carissa Weber Today was a beautiful and gorgeous day in Wisconsin for Easter! Hey, any Easter without snow is a good Easter, am I right? Along with that beautiful weather and excited kids, came along my love-hate relationship with chocolate. So many of us have favorite foods around the holidays, but not many people […]
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The First Post
By Carissa Weber Hello everyone! My name is Carissa Weber and I am excited to share my new blog, That Darn Amygdala! I know people have many questions about this blog, and what they can expect. So let’s take some time and dive into it! I was inspired to write this blog ultimately from my […]