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The Meaning We Make: How Neutral Thoughts Become Personal Truth

The Meaning We Make: How Neutral Thoughts Become Personal Truth

In the space between thinking and feeling

Amanda Stern
Amanda Stern
The Vigilant Heart: Hypervigilance and Emotional Exhaustion

The Vigilant Heart: Hypervigilance and Emotional Exhaustion

What neuroscience and attachment theory teach us about the exhausting vigilance that keeps love at bay

Amanda Stern
Amanda Stern
Fake Cancer, Real Epiphany: On Malta, Winter, and the Freedom of the Unknown

Fake Cancer, Real Epiphany: On Malta, Winter, and the Freedom of the Unknown

On the unexpected ways illness, isolation, and geography shape our courage

Amanda Stern
Amanda Stern
The Survival Paradox: How Sexual Violence Hijacks Our Most Ancient Protection System and Why Victims Comfort Their Abusers.

The Survival Paradox: How Sexual Violence Hijacks Our Most Ancient Protection System and Why Victims Comfort Their Abusers.

On Fawning, in Response to the New York Article about Neil Gaiman

Amanda Stern
Amanda Stern
The Art of Surrender: Finding Sleep at 3am

The Art of Surrender: Finding Sleep at 3am

For Adam W, and for you...

Amanda Stern
Amanda Stern
How a Therapist’s Intuition Led to a Revolutionary Trauma Treatment

How a Therapist’s Intuition Led to a Revolutionary Trauma Treatment

The Story of Brainspotting: David Grand’s Unexpected Discovery

Amanda Stern
Amanda Stern
BONUS POST: My Lifelong 'Childhood Disorder.'

BONUS POST: My Lifelong 'Childhood Disorder.'

The Thing That Didn't Leave.

Amanda Stern
Amanda Stern
Are You Really Free? The Silent Struggle That Might Be Holding You Back

Are You Really Free? The Silent Struggle That Might Be Holding You Back

Adult Separation Anxiety Disorder

Amanda Stern
Amanda Stern
6 Norms You Don't Have to Meet

6 Norms You Don't Have to Meet

So let's smash them

Amanda Stern
Amanda Stern
Use This Tibetan Buddhist Concept to De-escalate Any Situation

Use This Tibetan Buddhist Concept to De-escalate Any Situation

Getting Hooked On Shenpa

Amanda Stern
Amanda Stern
Anxiety Expert Dr. Chansky's Rules for Ruminators

Anxiety Expert Dr. Chansky's Rules for Ruminators

How to control your thoughts by choosing what to think about

Amanda Stern
Amanda Stern
The Vigilant Heart: Hypervigilance and Emotional Exhaustion

The Vigilant Heart: Hypervigilance and Emotional Exhaustion

What neuroscience and attachment theory teach us about the exhausting vigilance that keeps love at bay

Amanda Stern
Amanda Stern