Posts Tagged by stress reduction

PTSD: Moral Injury and War

What’s Really Happened to America’s Soldiers? » CounterPunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names. JUNE 28, 2012 SHARE ON FACEBOOKSHARE ON TWITTERSHARE ON GOOGLEMORE SHARING SERVICES14 Moral Injury and American War What’s Really Happened to America’s Soldiers? by NAN LEVINSON “PTSD is going to color everything you write,” came the warning from a stepmother of… more

Free Computer Basics Tutorial

Free Computer Basics Tutorial. Home > All Topics > Computers > Computer Basics Computer Basics Are you new to using computers? Do you wonder what people mean when they say the Cloud, Windows, Blackberry, Lion, etc.? Perhaps you would just like to know more about how computers work? When it comes to learning today’s technology, Computer Basics has… more

A Wise Path to Work with Sleep Troubles | Mindfulness and Psychotherapy

very good quick article. Rory ****** A Wise Path to Work with Sleep Troubles | Mindfulness and Psychotherapy. By ELISHA GOLDSTEIN, PH.D. I was recently giving a seminar to therapists on the application of mindfulness in psychotherapy. In that seminar the topic of insomnia came up and I couldn’t help it, I outed myself. I let people… more

Love and Mental Illness | GeekMom | Wired.com

Love and Mental Illness | GeekMom | Wired.com By Jenny WilliamsEmail Author February 2, 2013 | 8:00 am | Categories: Bedroom, Health and Beauty,Library, Sex and Relationships, Support Reaching the Skies by ThisWolfWalksAlone on deviantART. (CC-BY-3.0) I haven’t publicly dwelled on my personal life of the past year, but to say it’s been eventful is an understatement. After 14 1/2 years of… more

Got Stress? Here’s a Practice You Can BET On | Mindfulness and Psychotherapy

Got Stress? Here’s a Practice You Can BET On | Mindfulness and Psychotherapy. By ELISHA GOLDSTEIN, PH.D. No matter what time of year it is, stress will likely be a part of it. A little stress is good, it fuels motivation, but there’s a tipping point where it starts to have diminishing returns. When that… more

Psychotherapy may work if blended with Antidepressants – Chicago Tribune

Psychotherapy may work if blended with antidepressants – Chicago Tribune. December 06, 2012|By Kate Kelland | Reuters LONDON (Reuters) – Patients with depression who fail to benefit from antidepressant drugs may do better if they are also treated with a type of “talking” psychotherapy called CBT, according to new research published on Friday. In the first… more

Top 50 health apps: Body&Soul

Top 50 health apps – body+soul. These are pretty good start . . . good ratings. for PMS, meditation, relaxation, exercise, and more. Rory ************************************************** By Charmaine Yabsley & Maureen Shelley Maintaining your health, fitness and happiness goals is only a click away… We review 50 of the best health and fitness apps… more

Screening Tools: eMentalHealth.ca

click here for : Screening Tools Wondering if you or a loved one might have a mental health concern? Use our free, anonymous, clinically validated screening questionnaires to see whether or not there may be a mental health issue. Remember: these self-assessments are for screening only… more

Meditation: lasting effects on brain functioning

Meditation may have lasting positive effects on brain functioning – Syracuse natural health | Examiner.com. Video: Meditation Techniques: How Long and How Often to Practice Meditation The National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine writes thatmeditation is recognized as a mind-body practice in complementary and alternative medicine (CAM). There are various types of meditation, most of which originated… more

Coquitlam girl who posted bullying video takes own life – The Globe and Mail

Coquitlam girl who posted bullying video takes own life – The Globe and Mail. Like many teenagers, Amanda Todd struggled to fit in. The skinny girl with long brown hair didn’t have many close friends and often ate lunch alone. She was bullied – in person and online. A product of her generation, Amanda turned… more

Economics of Providing Psychotherapy

PsychiatryOnline | Psychiatric News | News Article. Susan G. Lazar, M.D. text A A A Mental illness is the leading cause of global disability, accounting for one-third of disability worldwide, according to 2008 data from the World Health Organization. In the United States, costs of mental illness are 7 percent of total health care expenditures, with the indirect… more

Anger Management: Anger Issues and Types

This is a very good article I found on Anger Issues and Types. When a client begins anger management counselling with me they complete 2 questionairres to determine: The main 2 types of anger they experience and, The degree to which they have a tendency to “Turn Anger Inward”. Then we move forward with a… more

Stress Relief 5 Easy Resolutions

Ashley Davis Bush, LCSW: Stress Relief For 2012: 5 Easy Resolutions That Will Stick!. The new year is up on the calendar. Will this be another year that you vow to start exercising only to drop your gym membership by Valentine’s Day? Remember the year you were determined to start flossing? Take vitamins? Give up… more

Rewiring the Brain to Ease Pain

Rewiring the Brain to Ease Pain – WSJ.com. Rewiring the Brain to Ease Pain Brain Scans Fuel Efforts to Teach Patients How to Short-Circuit Hurtful Signals By MELINDA BECK How you think about pain can have a major impact on how it feels. That’s the intriguing conclusion neuroscientists are reaching as scanning technologies let them… more

Myths of Psychotherapy: Mental Health

Myths of Psychotherapy: #2 « Mental Health. By Thomas L. Schwartz, MD Psychotherapy, talk therapy, and counseling are all terms used when treatment revolves around a patient talking to a therapist every week. This series of blogs aims to evaluate some common myths about getting therapy for one’s mental or emotional symptoms. The first post… more

ADHD: It’s not just kids who suffer

It’s not just kids who suffer from ADHD – The Globe and Mail. From Monday’s Globe and Mail Published Sunday, Aug. 21, 2011 7:30PM EDT In the last decade, there has been an explosion of cases of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder among Canadian children. Everyone knows a Grade 2 student who cannot stop fidgeting in… more

The Powerful Influence of Parents

by Jerry Lopper, Personal Growth Coach on June 13, 2011 » Image By Colin Brough The influence of our parents is on my mind right now. Even as we become fully functioning adults and parents ourselves, it’s intriguing to consider how much of who we are is directly attributable to beliefs and experiences we encountered as… more

Why It’s So Hard to Find Your Life’s Purpose

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/douglas-labier/life-purpose_b_862192.html “Every being is intended to be on earth for a certain purpose.” – Sa’di, 12th Century Persian poet I’m often asked, “Why can’t I find the purpose of my life?” Over the decades I’ve heard many men and women — whether they’re psychotherapy patients working to build healthier lives or business executive trying to… more

EFT Tapping: How To !

http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/n4UWb–KGm0?fs=1&hl=en_US This is a very good set of videos on Tapping. I have trained since 1999 in EFT and my main teachers used it extensively. Rory ***** EMOTIONAL FREEDOM TECHNIQUE (“EFT”) excerpted from piece written by Sandra Lewis, MA Emotional Freedom Technique is an energy healing… more

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