Jason Sugg Psychotherapy

Desire, Gratitude, and Mountain Meadows Finding your vitality in "I want"

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Daily Inspiration: Meet Jason Sugg Today we’d like to introduce you to Jason Sugg. Hi Jason, can you start by introducing yourself? We’d love to learn more about how you got to where you are today?I started my professional life as a software developer – I actually have bachelors and masters degrees in computer science from MIT!...

What Is Anxiety, and Why Am I Feeling It? — Jason Sugg Psychotherapy, Austin, TX We’ve all experienced anxiety - elevated heart rate, tightness of breath, racing thoughts, a sense of both urgency and being unable to settle down, maybe other symptoms - and it’s one of the most common things we see in therapy today. It’s very uncomfortable! But what exactly is it, and why is...

Why Do You Keep Asking What I’m Feeling In My Body? — Jason Sugg Psychotherapy, Austin, TX One refrain you will hear from somatically-informed therapists over and over again is the question “What are you feeling in your body?” This question is both highly informative for the therapist and often highly confusing for clients. So let’s dig a little into why we ask it. There is this wid...

Feel your animal

Human Suffering and Cultural Ideas, Part 2 - Humans Aren't Animals — Jason Sugg Psychotherapy This series of posts is looking at the way that received and persistent ideas can contribute to psychological suffering. And one of the most persistent and problematic ideas out there is that we humans are somehow different from animals. I mean, most of us know from high school biology that huma

Write it all down!

Psychedelic Integration, part 4 - Narrating Your Experience — Jason Sugg Psychotherapy DISCLAIMER - Psychedelics are still largely illegal in the United States. I am not a medical doctor and cannot recommend any types of medication. This post is not intended to encourage anyone to engage in illegal activities or consume illicit substances, and I cannot provide the substances themselve

Here's how to work with those pesky narratives in therapy

Narrative, Part 2 - How to Work With Your Narratives — Jason Sugg Psychotherapy Most of the time when people come to therapy, it’s because some of the things they are experiencing in the present moment are at odds with the narratives they have about their lives in ways that are confusing, scary, or just make them feel like something is wrong. As therapists, our work is ofte

The most powerful move in psychotherapy!

Make Friends With Your Fear — Jason Sugg Psychotherapy In Buddhist teachings you will often hear teachers suggesting you “ make friends with your fear ”. This is sometimes a startling phrase for people - who wants to make friends with fear?!? And what does that even mean? Most of us treat fear as an enemy, an entity to be avoided at all costs. And o...

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Psychedelic Integration, part 3 - Knowing less, not more — Jason Sugg Psychotherapy DISCLAIMER - Psychedelics are still largely illegal in the United States. I am not a medical doctor and cannot recommend any types of medication. This post is not encouraging anyone to engage in illegal activities or consume illicit substances, and I cannot provide the substances themselves or any h

Narrative, Part 1 - The Story of You — Jason Sugg Psychotherapy Narrative is at the heart of how we, as humans, make sense of the world (and even how we construct our own sense of self!). Sometimes this idea seems strange to people - it’s not immediately obvious how stories are related to understanding the world, or to how we think and feel about ourselves. Bu...

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What Are Boundaries Anyway? — Jason Sugg Psychotherapy A question that came up recently in my practice was, just what are these things we call boundaries anyway? This is a word that gets tossed around a lot these days, and like much self-help lingo it has an immediate metaphorical appeal, but can also be quite confusing when you’re trying to apply it ...