An Online Client Learning about Therapy as a Verb Life Therapy Education (LTE) is a complete re-visioning of the meaning of three things: therapy, being human, and life. It re-visions therapy in its original meaning as a verb instead of an abstract noun. Life Therapy Education also re-visions being human in terms of being a holon. Being a human holon goes far beyond the common dualistic “body/mind” view presented in mainstream medicine, therapy, spirituality, and religion.

AH HA! Moments of Insight Bring Healing that Improve Your Mental Health What’s an Insight? An insight is an AH HA! moment that instantly heals and improves your mental health. It’s a flash that comes into your mind from outside. When that AH HA! flash of insight comes, it instantly shows you what you’ve been doing that doesn’t work and what you need to do instead.

Anxiety is an unpleasant emotion often misunderstood as an enemy. However, it serves to inform us of potential threats to our safety and drives our survival instincts, prompting responses like fight, flight, freeze, or fawn. Embracing anxiety as a friend can support our well-being and help us navigate life's challenges.

What Causes Your Anxiety? The two main causes of anxiety are experience-based and mind-based stimuli. Experience-based stimuli are upstirrings of anxiety caused by what you actually see or hear. They can be threats to your life or someone else’s and can be witnessed by others. Mind-based stimuli are upstirrings of anxiety caused by your thoughts and beliefs. They only affect you and can’t be witnessed by others.

We All Have Wounds that Distress Us Emotionally When we are born, we naturally aspire toward life, health, and happiness. Our happiness is in fulfilling the life-affirming desires of our heart and realizing our dream. However, during our life, we all experience wounds that cause emotional distress. These wounds produce symptoms of anxiety, depression, physical pain, mental confusion, and weakened relationships with ourselves, others, and the world.