Simone Biles has been coming up a lot with my clients in therapy sessions lately. You might assume they have been talking about how impressed they are by her performances at the Olympic Games, but that hasn’t actually been the main focus. The conversations have centered around what she has been doing outside of her [...]
I first came across the term imposter syndrome several years ago from a friend who was a first year PhD candidate at a prestigious university. She said that the first thing her advisor did at the beginning of her program was to sit everyone down and warn them about the imposter syndrome. He said that most [...]
Change Your Brain With Mindfulness Mindfulness has become a household word in the past couple of years. And yet, it's not new. Quite the opposite, really. The practice itself has been around since at least 600 BC. Why, then, is it getting so much attention now? Mindfulness meditation appears to have a direct impact on the [...]
I recently came across an article in Discover Magazine that caught my interest. You can find it here. The article describes a successful treatment for Obsessive Compulsive Disorder that has, at its very core, an emphasis on teaching mindfulness skills to its participants. Those mindfulness skills are leveraged to change the way these people think, adjusting [...]