Calgary Emotional Health

02/27/2026

Maladaptive avoidance patterns that undermine healthy conflict and genuine connection:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BMFY2fO5xU

This video explores the psychology of conflict avoidance—not peacekeeping, but a fear-driven pattern that hollows out relationships. We examine Dr. John Gott...

02/26/2026

Idealization as a barrier to realistic connection and closeness with others:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdRXv7bLuwc

Emotional Intelligence, Daily. Start now: https://www.theschooloflife.com/subscription/ Why are some of us so impossibly picky? This film explores the surpri...

02/25/2026

Good overview of common patterns of depression:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAN6iQyhlLk

Depression is more than just sadness—it affects your energy, sleep, body, and even your brain. This video explains key symptoms, why diagnosis is challenging...

02/23/2026

Video describes a special form of mental anxiety that can interrupt our normal attention, memory, sensory, and perceptual systems:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJZpvwUsQYY&t=42s

"Brain fog can be one of the most difficult symptoms of chronic illness to explain."Share this video with anyone who doesn't understand what brain fog feels ...

02/13/2026

Good info from Dr. Lamb untangling common depressive and anxiety responses from our healthy experience of anger:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSOtfdET5iA

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02/11/2026

Some resources for people experiencing traumatic stress:
https://www.ualberta.ca/en/human-resources-health-safety-environment/media-library/health-and-wellbeing/mental-health/other/coping-with-a-traumatic-event.pdf

02/10/2026

Short intro to the affective and relational effects of early emotional deprivation:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aymvX-OrlS0

A lot of our adult problems come down to varieties of emotional neglect suffered in childhood. In this film, we look at one of the most famous experiments i...

02/09/2026

June Tangney -- differentiating shame, guilt, and self-blame processes common in emotional health and relationship problems:
https://youtu.be/itsnF2_7W9g?si=1YHjmxPmabcBqvwM

People often use the words “guilt” and “shame” interchangeably, but the two emotions affect us in different ways. June Tangney, PhD, of George Mason Universi...

02/05/2026

A spectrum of increasingly brutal patterns of responding to ourselves that can cut off our emotional life and self-understanding:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9s_O0nVeSUw

A particularly awful aspect of self-hatred is that we may not even be aware that we are suffering from it. Here is a list of questions to help us diagnose an...

02/04/2026

Stubborn painful patterns that can keep us stuck in the past or present opportunities to untangle complex feelings from our early attachments:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJ-MGBMRiLs

Emotional Intelligence, Daily. Start now: https://www.theschooloflife.com/subscription/ Trapped in a cycle of unhappiness? 😔 Explore the psychological conce...

02/03/2026

Teachers as valuable sources of security for children with insecure attachment relationships at home: https://www.facebook.com/share/v/16UQopxzv6/

02/02/2026

Some common defensive patterns that range from adaptive and flexible responses to our emotional life to more rigid and confining responses to ourselves and others:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiQRJh0HL4E

Defense Mechanisms in psychology are our inbuilt anxiety management system. Denial, projection, repression, intellectualization, shield us from anxiety and p...