Counseling Psychology Blog
Uncovering the Causes of Rumination and Depression
Rumination is a repetitive, passive process of overthinking, focusing on the causes and effects of distress, often without actively seeking solutions. It involves repeatedly dwelling on negative thoughts or events, which can worsen mood and increase stress. While...
Mystic Psychotherapy: When Psychotherapists are Mystics
Modern psychotherapy presents itself as a scientific and clinical discipline—grounded in diagnosis, evidence-based modalities, and professional ethics. Yet beneath the language of manuals, outcomes research, and insurance codes lies a quieter truth: many...
What It Means to Be a Mystic — and How to Become One
The word mystic often conjures images of robed figures, monasteries, visions, or supernatural powers. In reality, mysticism is far less about spectacle and far more about direct experience. A mystic is someone who seeks — and sometimes attains — a direct, embodied...
Food Addiction & Compulsive Eating: Why it Damages Health and Can Be More Deadly Than Alcoholism
“Food addiction” and compulsive eating disorders (like binge-eating disorder) aren’t just issues of willpower. They’re patterns of behavior driven by brain-reward circuitry, stress biology, emotions, and an environment filled with highly palatable, ultra-processed...
Can Sugar Aggravate Anxiety?
It’s no secret that sugar can wreak havoc on your body when you indulge a little too much. The harmful effects it can have on your physical health are well-studied, which is why researchers talk so much about reducing sugar to lower the risk of having anxiety....
