Gioia–How to Be Happier Concrete Steps to Improve Positivity Myers Briggs Feelers/Positive or Negative Feelings?Gioia and Rebecca are both Feelers on the Myers Briggs Personality Type. In fact, Gioia and Rebecca have the exact same profile—Extrovert/Intuitive/Feeler/Perceiver (ENFP). However, where they differ is that Gioia is prone to positive emotions (joy, connection, contentment, energy) and Rebecca negative ones (anxiety, guilt, anger). …
Julia–Ambiguous Losses (and Gains) During a family zoom call (a ritual many of you may be familiar with), Rebecca’s little sister Julia and her best-friend Katy voiced that even though there seemed to be “a light at the end of the tunnel” with COVID, there is a still a sense of disorientation as we slowly emerge from the last year …
Gioia–Faces Race is a touchy topic, partly because, as we explored in our last newsletter, it brings up so many taboos. One of those is the challenging notion that people of other races “all look the same to me”. Clinically that is known as Own Race Bias (ORB). Although many of us, whatever our racial identity, might wish that we …
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Rebecca–Taken Over By Greater Forces “I think I’m asking too much of COVID 19.” This is what Alta Mauro, a friend and colleague of Rebecca’s, recently said when they were checking in about how they were responding to the last couple of months of lock down. Alta serves as the Director of NYU”s Spiritual Life and Intercultural Education, but lives …
Tabitha-Things I Enjoy Last month, we talked about the negativity bias and the “Broaden and Build Theory of Positive Emotions.” The Broaden and Build Theory refers to the broadening effect that positive emotions and experiences have on what we perceive about ourselves and our lives. When we are feeling better we not only notice more of what is happening in …
Gioia–Symbol of Strength and Perseverance One of our clients recently added a nuance to our approach to managing stress and developing resilience. She identified that she parses her “toolbox” of coping strategies into two categories–techniques she uses “in the moment” when she’s faced with something really difficult or traumatic, and ongoing routines that she employs preventively to keep herself stable …
Annie’s Vision Board 2019 The other day, Gioia was asked to run a ” Vision Board” workshop and thought, “I’ve never led one but they sound like a very art therapy-ish kind of thing!” Vision boards are essentially any kind of artwork you make that explores the life you want to lead. It answers questions such as: would you like …
Christopher Schiffgens–Disaster Coming Summer is over and so ends our youth series. We thank Tabitha, Gioia’s 18 year old daughter, for reminding us how easy it is to not only take the people that we care about for granted but to sometimes not treat them as well as they deserve. We also thank Annabel, Gioia’s 16 year-old daughter, for revealing …
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Tabitha–Sisters Gioia and Rebecca have enlisted Gioia’s daughters to do a “Youth Series” for our newsletters this summer so you will be hearing more from them. This month Tabitha, Gioia’s oldest daughter, wrote about her relationship with her little sister Annabel. The best decision I ever made happened a few years ago when I decided I should treat my family …
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