Boundary Expansive Therapy
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Why “Maxxing” Your Life Won’t Save You from Death
“Maxxing” culture is anxiety dressed up as a productivity hack. Therapeutic understandings of death denial shed light on how “maxxing” cannot do what it promises, and the failure of that promise tends to produce more anxiety, not less.
Existential Anxiety & Grief in the Face of Fascism
How to disembark from the hamster wheel of existential anxiety and grief amidst rising fascism and political unrest.
Can Friction-Maxxing Help Manage Anxiety?
Similar to friction-maxxing, ERP relies on consciously choosing a path with greater resistance for the specific purpose of building distress tolerance, and ultimately distress reduction, for things of which you are afraid.
Meet Caryn & Their Work
Learn more about my unique expertise in treating OCD, Anxiety, Chronic Pain, Sexual Dysfunction, Relationship Patterns and Self-Conceptualization with specific training in exposure therapy and pain reprocessing therapy known as PRT.
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