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The Art of Letting Go: Discovering Stillness Within
When the noise of life pulls you into chaos, stillness can feel impossible. Learn how mindfulness and Centering Prayer help soften the Velcro mind, ease anxiety, and bring you back to the quiet peace waiting on the shore.
Navigating Difficult Conversations: The Five Dynamics of ADHD Communication
ADHD communication often feels like listening to everything, everywhere, all at once. This article explores the Five Dynamics of ADHD Communication—frequency, duration, style, intensity, and circumstance—and how understanding them can turn conversations from conflict into connection.
Meet Your ANTs: Recognizing and Challenging Automatic Negative Thoughts
Automatic Negative Thoughts, or ANTs, can sneak into our minds like tiny pests—quiet at first, then overwhelming. In this article, Matt Johnson shares how to recognize the thoughts that sabotage confidence, learn their hidden patterns, and use simple, practical tools to calm the mental swarm before it takes over.
Even in Suffering, Life Can Be Luminous
In this guest article, Clarity Coach and AMFT Juan Castro explores how The Shawshank Redemption and Viktor Frankl’s Man’s Search for Meaning illuminate the truth that even in suffering, life can be luminous — when we choose meaning, freedom, and authenticity.
Why Couples’ Arguments Fail — and How to Fix Them
Arguments don’t fail because love disappears — they fail because hidden patterns take over. Matt Johnson unpacks the Four Horsemen of conflict and offers practical tools to replace defensiveness, contempt, criticism, and stonewalling with calm, clarity, and connection.
From Rumbling to Rising: Building Momentum for Real Change
Change rarely feels smooth. Like a shuttle launch, it starts with noise, pressure, and resistance before lift-off. In From Rumbling to Rising: Building Momentum for Real Change, Clarity Coach Matt Johnson explores why the hardest part of change often happens before visible progress. Learn practical ways to build momentum, handle setbacks with compassion, and trust the process of real transformation.
Finding Hope Through Struggle and Story
Stories have the power to bring light into our darkest moments. In this reflection, Clarity Coach Matt Johnson explores how sharing our stories, building supportive relationships, and practicing steady endurance can transform struggle into hope. Drawing insight from The Tale of Despereaux, psychology, and spiritual wisdom, this post reminds us that healing begins when we dare to speak our truth and let light in.
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