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“He who fights monsters”, but who or what are the monsters?

Fredrick Nietzche is famous for saying “He who fights monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster… when you gaze long into the abyss the abyss also gazes into you.” I believe that this quote can be applied to the way that we frequently dehumanize others when we fight monstrous […]

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ACT & Star Wars: How Acceptance & Commitment Training Can Make You a Jedi

ACT can make you like a Jedi Knight. Pretty bold claim, right? Yep! But Acceptance & Commitment Training/Therapy (ACT, pronounces like the word act because no one likes to take a test) can do some pretty amazing stuff. The research is ongoing, but so far there have been some amazing studies that demonstrate that regular use of ACT can be used from everything from improving emotional regulation skills (Elices et al., 2017, Kocovski et al., 2014, Smout et al., 2014) to increasing physical health (Hughes et al., 2013, Pots et al., 2016, Wicksell et al., 2013) to addressing chronic pain (Cebolla et al., 2017, McCracken et al., 2014, Veehof et al., 2016, Wetherell et al., 2011) to actually altering the way our very genes express themselves in positive ways (Bastani et al., 2020, Lechner et al., 2019, Rimes-Dimitriades et al., 2021)!

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