In Northern California, we have had three years in a row of major fires during October not only causing massive destruction but impacting large areas surrounding the actual fires by unhealthy air quality as smoke...
Category - Emotional Health, Etc.
Other emotional health related content.
Lisa Brookes Kift, MFT
Breaking up with Alcohol and Stepping into a Clear Life
Cecily Mak shares her personal journey and paradigm shift around the role of alcohol in her life. “Whatever you do, don’t tell people you don’t drink. They’ll think you’re weird.” Last night I attended an international...
Cecily Mak
Practice Response Flexibility to Improve Your Resilience
Linda Graham, MFT and author of Resilience: Powerful Practices for Bouncing Back from Disappointment, Difficulty and Even Disasters looks at the power of response flexibility, an important aspect of resilience. ...
Linda Graham, MFT
Honoring the Voice That Says, You’ve Had Enough
I had enough recently. So I stopped. In hindsight I didn’t realize that pause was coming but had a vague awareness of overwhelm creeping up on me, a barely audible whisper telling me I was trying to do too much...
If You Read One Book
If you’ve been paying any attention to the world of emotional health and relationships, you’ve probably come across terms like positive brain change, neuroplasticity, the neuroscience of resilience, etc. ...
Making a Mindfulness Practice Stick
I’ve been practicing mindfulness meditation off and on for over five years. The operative words here are “off and on.” Though I do generally live my life with far more attention and attunement to the...
Avoid the Expectation Trap
Craig Harper, a coach and motivational speaker in Australia, explores the many ways you can be let down by others and how changing your expectations can change your reality. Do people let you down? Have they let you...
Craig Harper, B.Ex.Sci.
The End of Life, A Shift in Perspective
B.J. Miller, M.D., is a palliative care physician at UCSF Medical Center and former executive director at the Zen Hospice Project in San Francisco, California. He is on a heartfelt mission to “de-pathologize...
Creating Meaning and Purpose Around the End of Life
Linda Graham, MFT looks at the often challenging topic of death and dying, how we can cultivate meaning and purpose around the end of life. She explores the idea of a paradigm shift in how we (society, the medical...
The Elusive Balance Between Work, Family, Intimate Relationships and Self
Life balance. A destination or way of being? It’s like some kind of mysterious creature that many of us seek. For a brief time it reveals itself, we think we’ve honored and befriended it then just when we...
