Samantha Boardman
Psychiatrist and Writer at Freelance
Positive Psychiatrist @WeillCornell, APA Distinguished Fellow & author of #EverydayVitality
Articles
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1 week ago |
drsamanthaboardman.substack.com | Samantha Boardman
Feeling scattered, overwhelmed, and ready to hide under the covers? You're not alone—but your instinct to retreat might be making everything worse. Our response to feeling overwhelmed actually keeps us stuck in a cycle of stress and isolation. Here is a counterintuitive but science-backed approach I recently shared with The Wall Street Journal that can transform how you handle life's chaos.
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2 weeks ago |
wsj.com | Samantha Boardman
Too often, people think the best thing to do is conserve their mental energy, and do less. That isn’t going to help. Dr. Samantha Boardman is a clinical instructor in psychiatry and assistant attending physician at Weill-Cornell Medical College in New York. She is the author of “Everyday Vitality, Turning Stress Into Strength” and provides insight and advice on how to build vitality and boost resilience at The Dose.
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3 weeks ago |
drsamanthaboardman.substack.com | Samantha Boardman
Take a moment and think about your right big toe. Focus on it. Straighten it. Wiggle it. Now ask: how does it feel? Snug in your sock? Slightly pinched in your shoe? You likely hadn’t noticed it up until this moment unless of course you have gout or recently stubbed it. But now that you’re paying attention, your right big toe is taking up prime real estate in your mind and is impossible to ignore. What seems like a psychological trick is actually a demonstration of how attention works.
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1 month ago |
drsamanthaboardman.substack.com | Samantha Boardman
How often have you had a conversation that goes something like this:“Hey, how was your weekend?” the person asks you. You respond that it was fine. Then the person launches into a sermon about all the cool things they did.
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2 months ago |
drsamanthaboardman.substack.com | Samantha Boardman
“I feel so scattered,” explained Ava. Like many people I know, my patient Ava was having a hard time focusing. “I open my phone to check the weather but then a notification pops up about some infuriating political news so I check X, and then open Instagram, and then I get a message from my mom but before I reply, my friend sends me a link to a celebrity scandal, and I quickly check the status of my Amazon order.
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Feeling your feelings is healthy. Fixating on them, however, might be what’s holding you back. Emotions are data, not direction — you don’t need to understand every feeling to keep moving forward. The real key to resilience is action over analysis. https://t.co/g6NLqLxsrS