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Amy Winehouse, the Reluctant Celebrity: A Parable On the Fatal Cost of Fame

…herapeutic and curative powers dating back through millennia. Art enhances mindfulness by forcing our awareness into the present moment. Winehouse was an artist with extraordinary gifts whose sheer talent made us stop and listen. “Fame came like a huge tidal wave,” former Winehouse friend and manger Nick Shymansky said this past week on MSNBC’s Morning Joe, emphasizing what he thought was his friend’s undoing. Winehouse was woefully unprepared for…

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Is Fear of Emotion Driving Our Addiction?

…native way of dealing with these feelings. Cultivating self-compassion and mindfulness is of great help in this process. Adopting an attitude of self-compassion allows us to accept that our suffering is a part of being human. It teaches us to exercise self-kindness, patience and acceptance in our journey to grow and change. Additionally, practicing mindfulness can help us learn to sit with our thoughts and feelings without allowing them to overpow…

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Creating a More Positive Identity

…has written of three elements that make up self-compassion: self-kindness, mindfulness, and common humanity. Self-kindness helps us to stop all the self-evaluation and assessment and instead, be curious, open, and loving when it comes to how we regard ourselves. Mindfulness allows us to sit with our thoughts and feelings without over-identifying or becoming inextricably linked and bogged down by our critical inner voices. Finally, common humanity…

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Real Love and How to Manifest It: A Conversation with Sharon Salzberg

…herent challenges that come with real love and explain how the practice of mindfulness and forgiveness can provide a path through the conflicts and challenges that arise. Finally, she will introduce ways to be more compassionate and to extend lovingkindness to others, even those with whom we don’t always agree. Participants will be able to: Describe “real love” and how clients can manifest toward themselves and toward others Practice the technique…

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Feeling Like a Failure

…elf-compassion, which she defines as having three elements: self-kindness, mindfulness, and common humanity. People who practice self-compassion have a kind (as opposed to judgmental) attitude toward their struggles. Through mindfulness, they learn not to over-identify with negative thoughts and messages that wear on them, and they embrace that to suffer is part of being human. They are not alone, no better or worse than anyone else, who faces cha…

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How to Escape the Vicious Cycle of Anxiety and Insomnia: A 10-Step Guide

…rry and disabling fearful expectations.” Sleep is a perfect facilitator of mindfulness—the kind of merciful distance toward negative experiences we all need in order to put them in context and move on despite them. Researchers at University of California Berkeley’s Sleep and Neuroimaging Laboratory found that the sleep-deprived brain reverts back to more primitive patterns of activity. The study participants who were kept awake were less likely to…

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I Hate My Body: Dealing with Poor Body Image

…compassion As we take on our inner critic, it’s important to maintain what mindfulness expert Dr. Daniel Siegel calls a COAL attitude, in which we are curious, open, accepting and loving toward ourselves. We can all find ways to foster more self-compassion. Dr. Kristen Neff is a lead researcher on self-compassion, and she’s found that it has many benefits that are actually preferable to self-esteem. Unlike self-esteem, self-compassion doesn’t focu…

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Commitment Issues: Why Some People Have Them and Others Don’t

…ies of secure attachment in meditators, and he predicts that the fields of mindfulness and attachment theory will begin to intersect more in the future. This page links to articles and videos that can provide guidance for beginning a mindfulness practice. For many people, a spiritual or religious practice brings serenity and peace to their daily lives. A 12-step recovery program can also provide a base of stability and caring that can impact an in…

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Breaking Bad Habits: The Neuroscience and Psychology of Personal Transformation

…ughts and cravings as a way to avoid pain and the practical application of mindfulness as a way to regulate urges to engage in the bad habit. Practice mindfulness and self-compassion as a way to change your relationship to cravings and urges and rediscover the wise voice inside. Utilize strategies to guide and stay connected to the full program of skills and meditations you need to not only break your bad habits, but open up to a new set of health…

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Overcoming Depression: Two-Part Online Workshop

…ses people can engage in to reduce symptoms of depression Tools to enhance mindfulness, self-compassion, and a positive sense of self Depression the most common mental health disorder in the United States, affecting nearly one in 10 adults. According to the World Health Organization, by the year 2020, depression will be the second most common health problem in the world. With depression on the rise, it is perhaps more important than ever to seek t…

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