Rick Hanson, PhD looks at ways to see things clearly when you aren’t treated well, to do what you can and then let it go. — It’s easy to treat people well when they treat you well. The real test is...
Category - Emotional Health
Rick Hanson, PhD
The Impact of Gratitude on Health and Well-Being
Dr. Robert Emmons’s research on gratitude began with a fairly simple experiment, asking one group of students to write down three “benefits” a day for 10 weeks – i.e, enjoying a haircut or a car...
Linda Graham, MFT
Ask Lisa: Should I cut off from my family of origin?
I’m doing a lot of personal work on overcoming some really dysfunctional situations with my family of origin. I’m 71 years old, (which is hard for me to even believe, feel like I’m 30) and am...
Lisa Brookes Kift, MFT
Clear Emotional Leftovers: Rewire Your Brain for a Healthier Mind
Neuropsychologist and writer, Marsha Lucas, PhD compares emotional leftovers to leftovers in your fridge. Not only are the old and messy but tend to reinforce negative states like FEELING UNLOVABLE or even your SELF...
Marsha Lucas, PhD
4 “Can’t-Miss” Tools for Improved Resilience and Emotional Health
I attended the Psychotherapy Networker Symposium in Washington DC recently and left with some highly useful tools to benefit your emotional health from the workshop, Neuroscience and the Art of Self Care, conducted by...
Who Says Our Dysfunctional Parents Did the Best They Could?
You all know this phrase. It makes me want to scream whenever I hear it, these days at least: They did the best they could. I just asked my spouse what he thought of the term, what it really means, and he said, “That...
Amy Eden
The Neuroscience of Resilience: Morality
Post 9/9 in a series by Linda Graham, MFT, a deep dive on the neuroscience of stress and resilience. As we learned in The Neuroscience of Resilience: Intuition, ”Intuition is a deep and profound knowing often below the...
The Neuroscience of Resilience: Intuition
Post 7/9 in a series by Linda Graham, MFT, a deep dive on the neuroscience of stress and resilience. As we learned in The Neuroscience of Resilience: Insight and Awareness, “To cope with the mysterious and...
The Neuroscience of Resilience : Insight and Awareness
Post 7/9 in a series by Linda Graham, MFT, a deep dive on the neuroscience of stress and resilience. As we learned in The Neuroscience of Resilience: Response Flexibility, “In order to cope with change, we...
The Neuroscience of Resilience : Response Flexibility
Post 6/9 in a series by Linda Graham, MFT, a deep dive on the neuroscience of stress and resilience. As we learned in The Neuroscience of Resilience: Empathy, “neuropsychologists see empathy as...
