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How Standing Up for Yourself Helps You Fight Depression

…e key elements of self-compassion: 1) self-kindness over self-judgment, 2) mindfulness over over-identification with thoughts and feelings, 3) common humanity versus isolation. Self-compassion asks us to value ourselves as human beings without judgment or evaluation. It allows us to notice our suffering and to feel compassion for ourselves without getting caught up in the rumination that comes with assessing ourselves or our state of being. Dr. Ne…

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Identifying Your Child’s Attachment Style

…at when parents have a kind of presence in their own skin, you can call it mindfulness, you can call it being coherent. You can say they have what’s called “mind sight” — they can see their own minds and they can see the minds of others; when parents have this feature of not just reacting to behaviors, but seeing the mind beneath the behavior, the behavior that’s coming from themselves or from others – when the mind is seen that way, when mind sig…

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The Role of Anger in Depression

…ed by researcher Kristin Neff, involves three key elements: self-kindness, mindfulness, and awareness of common humanity. Research has shown that the practice of self-compassion can significantly reduce a depressed mood. As one study pointed out, maladaptive or irrational beliefs underlie the development of depression, however, when high levels of self-compassion helped to counteract these negative thoughts, there was no longer a significant relat…

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Overcoming Relationship Anxiety

…challenging this destructive inner voice. She will explain how practicing mindfulness and self-compassion are valuable tools to help people cope with the anxiety that comes with change. The Webinar will reveal how, when armed with these introspective tools, individuals can create more secure attachments and enjoy closer, more fulfilling, and more loving relationships. Learning Objectives: Identify clients’ negative thought patterns/ attitudes tha…

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When the State of the World Overwhelms You

…ing over the past or catastrophizing about the future. But one lesson that mindfulness teaches us is how to reap the rewards of living in the present. Most of the time, our current experience doesn’t match the messages we’re sending ourselves or the scary stories we’re telling. If we check in with ourselves, we may find that, right here in this moment, we’re actually okay. When the world starts to feel like it’s spinning out from under us, we can…

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Why Therapy is Essential for Treating Addiction

…o-occurring disorders simultaneously. Enhancing behavioral skills, through mindfulness and emotional regulation, is the primary focus of DBT. This type of treatment encourages stress management, decreases impulsivity, and aims to strengthen self-esteem through discipline and structure. Trauma Therapy is also a vital form of therapy used for addiction treatment. Recent studies have shown that half of the participating adults had experienced some fo…

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What Really Goes On in the Mind of a Narcissist?

…ompassion involves taking a mindful approach to our thoughts and feelings. Mindfulness teaches us not to get too attached or over-identify with the thoughts, feelings, or critical inner voices that can try to take the wheel. We can be curious toward these attitudes, and we can let them pass by. We don’t have to board the train of our emotions and get carried away by destructive thoughts telling us we have to be special or the best, or criticizing…

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Why Trauma-Informed Care Matters in Addiction Recovery

Why Trauma-Informed Care Matters in Addiction Recovery

…mental states such as flashbacks or self-criticism. Helpful skills include mindfulness, self-care and finding trusted resources and supportive people and groups that might include 12-step programs. Therapists may want to incorporate Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Community Reinforcement and Family Training (CRAFT) and many other modalities to help those in recovery develop strengths and stable relationships, and minimize unhelpful responses….

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Anxiety: An Emotion to be Listened to, not a Symptom to be Eliminated

…fury in her presence. Lasting Solutions It’s in vogue these days to take a mindfulness approach to anxiety; to not indulge troubling thoughts; to see them as meaningless; to let them just be. Obviously, there’s a place for not engaging and concretizing anxious thoughts that are unanchored to realistic dangers. But, perhaps we have gone too far. When the representational and functional significance of anxiety are viewed as irrelevant and ignored, p…

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How Focusing on the Bigger Picture Can Help Your Relationship

…reactions aren’t always proportional to the situation, it’s helpful to use mindfulness skills to take pause,for example, taking a walk or taking a breath and stepping back until we’re calm. Remember all our thoughts and feelings are acceptable, but they aren’t necessarily right. We can allow each thought to pass by or any feeling to wash over us, but we don’t need to get carried away, building a huge case against our partner or assigning deep mean…

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