Living With Anxiety- Tips for Helping Calm Anxiety
Living With Anxiety Over 40 million adults in the…
Loving-Kindness Meditation (LKM) — Beating Stress, Loneliness and Isolation While Sheltering In Place
These are surely trying times. I have been in practice for 25 years and never seen the level of interest in therapy that I see now. Everyone is stressed, isolated, lonely and frustrated. Some folks are scared or worried.And yet access to our usual supports– churches, synagogues, mosques, neighborhood BBQ’s, family reunions, book clubs, bowling nights, even date nights are on hold or have changed so drastically that they are hardly recognizable. But as humans our need to connect persists […]
Spirituality and Mental Health
For many decades, spirituality, and even more so religion, was considered to be at odds with psychology and psychiatry. It is true that Sigmund Freud, arguably the inventor of “the talking cure”, was not a fan. However, as with everything in life, things change. Psychology is no longer as opposed to spirituality and religion as it’s creator may have intended it to be. Personally, I am a researcher by nature, so as with all questions I like to consult the data. I realize that m […]
Acceptance – The Answer To All Our Problems?
I heard once that “acceptance is the answer to all…
What I’m Reading Now – Richard Rohr’s Breathing Under Water
Recently a lovely friend of mine, Margaret Martin, gave me this…
Forgiveness – Do I Have To?
One of the first things I try to establish with…
Mindfulness for Emotional Wellbeing
Mindfulness meditation — it seems to be everywhere in the…