Trauma is a topic that comes up for many of my clients at some point during our work together. There is an old adage in psychology that points to the fact that the issue that someone bring up in the first session is rarely the core issue that needs to be addressed. Sometimes, after working [...]
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 [...]