VIDEO: Our Power to Change
…Dr. Dan Siegel explains how at any age or stage in life, our brains are physically capable of change….
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Exercise – Reading Between the Lines: What does your life narrative reveal about you?
…what he or she experienced as a child. The story of the person with an avoidant attachment will tell about how he or she was neglected and had no one to rely on. The story of the person with an avoidant attachment will reveal episodes of emotional inconsistency that left him or her feeling distrustful and insecure. The story of the person with a disorganized attachment will most likely uncover incidents of abuse by an adult that he or she was depe…
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How to be a good parent: It’s all about you!
…p the hurts in our own childhoods and threaten to reactivate them. Our avoidance of these old feelings can cause us to pull away from relating closely with our children. At times when there is an emotional connection, we may be uncomfortable and even feel anger or resentment toward our child. If we stay defended against the feelings that are being stirred up in us, we will be cut off from our children and misattuned to what they are feeling and ex…
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Improve Your Mood Instantly
…arvard University (graduate student Matthew Killingsworth and psychologist Daniel Gilbert) created an app so they could contact subjects at random times during the day to record the subject’s mood and activities at that exact moment. Through this survey, they were able to gauge the mental state of more than 2000 volunteers several times a day-in some cases, even when they were having sex. The November issue of Science reported: When the researcher…
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Bullying and Beyond: How to Stop Violent Behavior
…series of painful suicides. The immediate response to this was impressive. Dan Savage created the “It Get Better Project” and inspired thousands of people, from Adam Lambert to President Obama, to send in videos about their own experiences with teenage bullying, violence and prejudice. The issue of bullying even made primetime television on popular shows, like “Glee.” The public outcry against bullying was a positive movement, but in its wake we m…
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Less Than an Hour of Training = A Lifetime of Pain Relief
…ations? Hoping to quell the anxiety associated with chronic pain? Fadel Zeidan, a neuroscientist at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center has found that ”just a little over an hour of training in meditation can dramatically reduce both the experience of pain and pain-related brain activation.” The study included MRI brain scans which showed pre-meditation pain reactions as intense and widespread activity in the primary somatosensory cortex (the area…
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Finding the Calm in the Chaos
…log. Diane Renz, a licensed psychotherapist, founder of Your Gateway to Healing, writer, workshop facilitator, utilizes both her academic background and personal experiences to explore how pain can become our possibility. She currently studies with Dr. Dan Siegel integrating the latest scientific understandings on neuroscience and Mindfulness within her work. For more information feel free to visit www.yourgatewaytohealing.com. © 2011 Your Gateway…
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Part II: Finding Calm in the Chaos
…rld. Diane Renz, a licensed psychotherapist, founder of Your Gateway to Healing, writer, workshop facilitator, utilizes both her academic background and personal experiences to explore how pain can become our possibility. She currently studies with Dr. Dan Siegel integrating the latest scientific understandings on neuroscience and Mindfulness within her work. For more information feel free to visit www.yourgatewaytohealing.com. © 2011 Your Gateway…
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Tips for Helping Your Child Handle Emotions
…al lows. Some of the most valuable of insights come from a new book by Dr. Dan Siegel and Dr. Tina Bryson, The Whole-Brain Child: 12 Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture Your Child’s Developing Mind, Survive Everyday Parenting Struggles, and Help Your Family Thrive. In this acclaimed text, parents are introduced to a new science illustrating how a child’s brain is wired and how it matures. With this understanding as a base, parents can implement te…
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VIDEO: Dr. Allan Schore on Therapeutic Alliance and Emotional Communication
…gical structure of the brain, the interpersonal neurobiology — my work and Dan Siegel’s work and so many others, etc. So all of these more or less are coming together now that are highlighting the relationship, so to speak between the patient and the therapist. But that relationship is not a relationship between two conscious minds, two left hemispheres. Again, that relationship is a subjective relationship, it’s much deeper than that. It’s the sa…
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