I’ll start with the personal side of this hopefully helpful article. The past week has been filled with me coming to terms with the fact that I am officially disabled. Not by new symptoms, but of the old which I was gritting my …
Our brains are powerful, they are involved in everything that we do. Mindfulness is all about filtering out the noise in our minds, and getting things down to being only this moment. This does a lot for anxiety and other mental health …
Unless your Kimmie Schmidt, and you just got out of the bunker you haven’t escaped the craze of adult coloring, and how “mindful” has become the buzz word of the day. Kimmie Schmidt is actually pretty much the embodiment of Mindfulness, in fact …
I start all therapy with this quote. It also opens one of my favorite workbooks: Seeking Safety.
In both chronic pain and vestibular communities I see a lot of people have intense friction and at times …
My partner and I struggled a lot when my health went from bad to incapacitating. It was hard for us to wrap our head’s around how to manage this superstorm of vertigo and migraine and keep our lives going. One thing …
I am planning a very sciencey post on this topic, since it is one of my favorite skills and treatment themes as a therapist. However, I will need to write that post on a day I can stay late at the …
This is a personal essay I wrote in 2008 on the Serenity Prayer and identifying the meaning and experience of Serenity. This actually predates Mindfulness being commonplace in Psychology which is why that term is not used, but it is most certainly applicable.
The serenity prayer has always been …
I’ve had a bit of magic in my work day most days, in which things that I plan happen without little delay or mix up. I get this lucky so often I get spoiled, and mess myself up in ways you may not expect, when things don’t go my way.
Every …
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Mindfulness is taking the field of Psychology by storm, and is indeed a very useful set of practices in psychotherapy which have a very strong evidence base.
Mindfulness is the practice of focusing and changing attention in a purposeful …
working in my studio like an adult
I have felt more alive these past few weeks than I have in a long time. There has been a day or two here and there for the past 6 months, but this …