When fear takes over and controls our patients or clients, especially when they are suffering with a chronic condition, it can keep them away from the people they love and what they value the most. To help your patients or students, you can use the F.A.C.T.S- Foundational Attentional Centering Techniques. Now these strategies have the […]

Why do we feel threatened? Fear has been part of humans survival evolution. This feeling of fear and anxiety kept our ancestors alive. Hence we are vulnerable to being alarmed, manipulated, and even intimidated by threats, both real ones and “screen tigers.” Our reptilian brain is constantly at work and vulnerability to feeling threatened whether […]