A body scan meditation is a simple and effective tool to tap into mindfulness, moment-to-moment awareness. Again, this is helpful in combatting rumination because it moves us out of the past and out of our heads and into the current moment and into our bodies. A body scan involves...

When things go wrong in life, we can very easily get caught up in thinking about how disappointed we feel, blaming ourselves or others, and focusing entirely on what we have lost and what the situation has cost us. We may think about negative events or experiences so frequently that we begin to...

Expressive writing is a tool we can use to help process our thoughts and feelings related to stressful or confusing experiences. It can also be used to help us overcome rumination about a particular topic. The key to positive results is to be open and honest with ourselves.

Expressive writing has...

The word meditation means to “take the measure of” and “to care for.” More fully, mediation is a relaxed state of moment-to-moment awareness or being in the “here and now” without passing judgment in this awareness. This is especially helpful in combatting...

Sometimes we can get a negative thought or event stuck in our head, and we replay the scenario over and over in our mind. We rehash feelings attached to an event or we continue to think about the causes and consequences of what we said or did or didn’t say or do. This can lead to the...