stress Archives – Marty Cooper, PhD, MFT

November 7, 2012August 27, 2022 by Marty L. Cooper, PhD, MFT

De-Pressurizing the Holidays

The spiritual teacher Saniel Bonder once stated something that applies well to psychotherapy in general, and anxiety and depression specifically: our lives are a continuous process of equalizing pressure, with that which is being “equalized” being the pressure between you and the world around you. Why do we do this? Simply because the state of being overly-pressurized is painful, and we deeply want less pain.

Life During Wartime: 7 Thoughts and Tips

“Burned all my notebooks, what good are
Notebooks? They won’t help me survive.”
“Life During Wartime”-Talking Heads

I think it would be fair to say that there’s a lot of stress in the air (or on our doorsteps) these days, and I don’t believe we can understate the often under-, or not-so-underground effect it’s having on us. The Talking Heads succinctly put it in their song: not a time to reflect, ’cause you gotta just survive.