The Dance/Movement Therapy

Continuing the not-so-common types of therapies series, I’m writing a few words about the dance/movement therapy (also called dance movement psychotherapy in UK). “DMT (or DMP) is the psychotherapeutic use of movement and dance to support intellectual, emotional, and motor functions of the body. As a modality of the creative arts therapies, DMT looks at the correlation between movement and emotion.” – Wikipedia As can be seen, this type … Continue reading The Dance/Movement Therapy

Troy HeadrickMarch 20, 20198 Comments

Self-awareness

The Language of Emotions

If you think about a particular emotion, how many words can you use to express it? How many words do you know to express a different side of an emotion? There are more than you might think. I recently stumbled across a list of feelings with the associated words, and the list is BIG! For example, according to this list, happiness can be … Continue reading The Language of Emotions

Troy HeadrickFebruary 26, 2019February 26, 201930 Comments

Self-awareness

Your Emotions are in Your Way

A severe negative emotion interferes with the way we see our future. It can be so bad that we forget emotions are temporary and in those moments, we strongly believe that we’ll be in that state the rest of our lives. How stupid does that sound? And still, it’s very true. Having a depression is the clearest example. Actually, one of the reasons … Continue reading Your Emotions are in Your Way

Troy HeadrickJanuary 13, 2019January 12, 201913 Comments

Self-awareness

Basic human emotions

A colorful mind can create colorful emotions. Starting from the darkest ones to the most enlighten states, we often go through all the specter without us even realizing how many emotions we feel in the same time. But how many emotions are out there? This is a question tougher than we might expect because we live through emotions every day. This search of … Continue reading Basic human emotions

Troy HeadrickOctober 31, 2018October 31, 201831 Comments