Use Your Character Strengths to Feel Better

My head feels like a ball of raw meat, aching from a beating, oozing blood from my ears. You wouldn’t know it to look at me, but my brain feels like an open wound. Hyperacusis can be…unpleasant. I haven’t had a high sensory pain day like this for months. There is no convenient day to…

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Set Experience Goals

Set Experience Goals In order to leverage your brain’s power of competitive selection, let’s think about what we want to experience more of. Enjoying life more means different things to each of us, and can change based on what’s happening around us. I call the things you want to experience more of experience goals. A…

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What is Competitive Selection?

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly Life is never just one thing. Take today for example. I slept in, fixed a fancy homemade coconut latte, and sat down to work in my fuzzy clean slippers. (The Good) The sleep in was sponsored by a persistent ringing in my left ear, and a growing wave…

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