SFBT is exactly what it sounds like: a modality built on quick interventions with an eye always on solutions, not problems.

It’s easy to feel worthy and good enough when we’re producing every day. But when we’re sitting alone doing nothing? The doubts about our worth come creeping in. Meditation might even feel like a waste of time.

Tim Ferriss interviewed 140 elite performers for Tribe of Mentors and found that almost all of them had a meditation practice.

It doesn’t have to be a kooky, mystical thing, either. Jon Kabat-Zinn started an eight-week intervention for terminally-ill patients at UMass Medical School in 1979. Today, Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) is a therapy practiced in health and professional settings across the world.

If you’re anything like me, you have no fucking clue how to do relationships. You certainly didn’t learn it from your parents.

Before my wife and I got married, we did a few months of couples counseling sessions. Now that I am training as a clinician and have studied couples counseling techniques, I know that what made our sessions so successful and restorative for our relationship was the use of Emotionally-Focused Therapy.

EFT grew out of the need to bring attachment theory into clinical practice. It taught me endlessly about my emotions and emotional regulation, and how to ask for what I need in all of my relationships.

I would not be happily married without EFT.

Humans are meaning-making machines. We aren’t looking for happiness; we are looking for meaning.

Dr. Viktor Frankl, Holocaust survivor and Austrian psychotherapist, developed logotherapy in part to understand how the worst atrocity in human history had occurred.

Logotherapy states that:

• human life has meaning,

• human beings long to experience their own sense of life meaning

• humans have the potential to experience meaning under any and every circumstance (Schulenberg, 2003).