Articles and Posts by Andrea Brandt, PhD
Welcome: I enjoy writing blogs on Anger, Relationships, Mindful Living, Anxiety, and Aging. I am a contributing editor to Psychology Today so you can find all my posts for that magazine here. I also contribute blogs to other websites as well, so please check out In the Media.
You can listen to me speak about my books on various radio interviews as well as read my book reviews.
Recent Posts on Anger | View All
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To Manage Your Anger, Give It a Name
Giving your partner the silent treatment, breaking a water glass in the middle of a fight, responding to criticism with [...]
It’s a Family Thing: When Passive-Aggressiveness Is Passed On
“I hope I never turn into my mother,” you say. “You sound just like your father,” you’re told. If one [...]
Is Your Anger a Cover for Shame?
If you have a quick temper, if you shout, if you slam doors, your problem may not actually be your [...]
When Passive Aggression Is the Third Party in Your Relationship
When your partner is passive-aggressive, it can feel like passive-aggression is the third party in your relationship. Passive-aggressiveness not only [...]
Recent Posts on Anxiety | View All
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6 Signs It’s Time to Seek Help for Your Anxiety
Like all emotions, anxiety is healthy, and we’re all prone to feeling it sometimes. Anxiety can become a debilitating problem, [...]
How to Keep a New Year’s Resolution
There are many reasons why it’s hard to keep a New Year’s resolution, and why over 50 percent of them [...]
Learning to Identify When It’s Anxiety, and When It’s Not
Anxiety is a tricky emotion. What might at first feel like anxiousness can, on more in-depth exploration, turn out to [...]
9 Steps to Heal Childhood Trauma in Adults
Trauma generates emotions, and unless we process these emotions at the time the trauma occurs, the emotions become stuck in [...]
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How to Stop Feeling Shame
Shame is one of the hardest emotions to talk about. It can also be the hardest emotion to recognize in [...]
Silence Negative Self-Talk In Just 5 Minutes a Day
Your pattern and style of self-talk most likely originate from the way your parents or caregivers spoke to and treated [...]
Science Proves That Gratitude Is Key to Well-Being
“Building the best life does not require fealty to feelings in the name of authenticity, but rather rebelling against negative [...]
4 Ways to Be Kinder to Yourself and Build Self-Empathy
“You are a failure.” “You look ugly today.” “Everyone’s life is better than yours.” Have you ever said these things [...]
Recent Posts on Relationships | View All
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How Reactive Behavior Damages Your Relationships
When you’re reactive, your feelings depend on external events outside your influence or control. Whether you have a good or [...]
Learn Empathy in Just 5 Steps
Your relationship with others determines much of your happiness and success in life. How you get along with coworkers, bosses, [...]
Why Boundaries Are Necessary for a Healthy Relationship
“Healthy boundaries” is one of those therapy-tinged phrases that is often used and rarely understood. If you ever find yourself [...]
Repairing Your Relationship With Your Mother
How you related to your mother when you were young has a profound impact on your adult relationships—and your relationship [...]
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Coping with Loss as We Age
One inevitable feature of life is coping with life as we age. Some losses are minor; some are massive. We [...]
How to Age Fearlessly
Emotions like fear are part of our human survival wiring. They compel us to act. When something scares us, we [...]
Can People Really Change? Epigenetics, Neuroplasticity, and CBT
Many of us learned in high school biology class that genetic traits are passed down to us from our parents. [...]
3 Ways Mindfulness Can Help Us as We Age
Living mindfully means living in a state of awareness. You savor every flavor, admire every sunset, cherish every moment with [...]