Many of us go to physicians to assess our physical health. Are there issues of disease present or are all systems in the body operating smoothly? It’s often obvious when physical health-related issues arise as there...
Category - Emotional Health
Lisa Brookes Kift, MFT
Emotional Health: Preparing for Deeper Work
If your self-awareness has been signaling that you are blocked in your present as a result of experiences in the past and you are ready to get to work on this, read on. If it’s with a therapist, there is a built...
Tools for Resilience: Cultivating Self-Compassion
Linda Graham, MFT explores the power of self compassion to increase resilience, an important element of managing stress. There are tools and techniques of “self-directed neuroplasticity” that will help you...
Linda Graham, MFT
Being in the Moment and Why it Matters
Mindfulness. Presence. Being in the moment. All three of the above essentially mean the same thing – and practicing them can bring you more emotional and relationship health. It’s a practice, a...
Insights into Childhood Trauma
The umbrella of trauma may be broader than many realize. It’s not only about experiencing clear-cut physical or sexual abuse, neglect or other horrible events leaving you with a sense of helplessness; if as a...
The Past and Your Emotional Health
Your past is connected to your present and future. Emotional health is a broad term but I see it as an overall sense of internal peace, emotional flexibility, openness, absence of shame and felt happiness. Others may...
Tools for Resilience: “Hand on the Heart” for Calm
Linda Graham, MFT looks at oxytocin’s ability to calm the mind/body, building stress resilience skills. She offers an exercise to do that. Oxytocin is the neurotransmitter of the “calm and connect”...
How are you? Really.
I’m not talking about the kind of “how are you” many of us ask acquaintances that often gets the “fine” response. Whether it’s true or not, many of us have gotten used to relying on...
Reflections on The How of Happiness
Research shows that the pursuit – or creation – of happiness is not a selfish endeavor at all. People who deliberately cultivate happiness – in flavors of joy, contentment, love, pride, awe, –...
Are We There Yet?
Rick Hanson, PhD, examines how we can spend too much time trying to get “somewhere,” the impact on the brain and offers tools to be more present. We spend so much of our time trying to get somewhere. Part...
Rick Hanson, PhD