There is always something to be anxious about. Even as you have found a way to deal with one thing, very often there is something else that comes along right behind it. You can’t wait for everything to be perfect; instead, you have to find ways to cope with whatever…
Compassion is sharing someone’s pain without sharing their suffering, according to meditation teacher and researcher Shinzen Young. While this sounds kind of contradictory, there’s a point to Young’s logic. One of the core skills of meditation involves focusing on the details of your experience while also accepting that experience…
Introducing Dawn Gaden in Birmingham, Michigan Dawn Gaden, M.A., LPC, NCC, is a counselor with more than 15 years experience. She is also a certified yoga teacher. In the above video can watch Dawn explain her philosophy to counseling and some of the techniques she uses with her clients. TRANSCRIPT:…
Identifying “What Is” Awareness is an essential tool we bring to the task, and is itself something we must cultivate. It does not spring fully-formed from our minds, like Athena from Zeus’s head. It’s as much a fruit of the garden as it is the sieve we use to sort…
Born to Grow Happiness and well-being, then, are realized to be skills to acquire and a path to take, rather than an inviolable nature. Misery is not our destiny.” Read: Back to Basics, Depression 101 If I’ve heard it once over my 25 years of professional practice (give or take),…
It Starts with a Thought … In order to change where we want to be we must first embrace where we are right now.” Read: Back to Basics, Depression 101 We have thousands of thoughts that run through our heads every minute of every day. There are thoughts we do…
“Your Brain is Not Confined to the Skull” The brain is vastly complex. There are 1.1 million cells and 80 to 90 billion neurons, each firing 5 to 50 times per second — even while we are asleep. There are tens of thousands of interconnections between the neurons and trillions…
TRANSCRIPT: Hey there, I’m Dr. Barbara Rubin, a licensed psychologist here with Thriveworks, and I’m thrilled that you’re listening to our video today. I wanted to let you all know that in my practice here, I work with individuals and couples on a wide variety of issues: everything from depression…
TRANSCRIPT: Ok, with great respect and great love, I’d like to great each and every one of you out there. I thought I’d take a few minutes and talk about the importance of mindfulness in psychotherapy. Read: Back to Basics, Depression 101 A lot of us struggle with negative mental…
By, counselor Neal Hughes — Thriveworks Knoxville Throughout the day, pay attention to the areas of stress in your body […] and consciously work to relax the muscles.” Read: Back to Basics, Depression 101 The connection between mind and body is stronger than you think. Watch the video above and…
Writings on Mindfulness With K. Neal Hughes, M.A. LSPE NCC The buzzword in neuroscience has been “neuroplasticity” for about 40 years. This simply means that the brain is able to change itself. That brain functions can change with new information and practice, especially practice, is no longer simply an interesting…
Writings on Mindfulness With K. Neal Hughes, M.A. LSPE NCC Our pasts haunt us, especially those of us who tend to experience depression. It is the nature of the brain to remember. It is also the nature of the brain to predict so there are those of us just as…