The third in a series by Linda Graham, MFT, based on Healthy Brain, Happy Life by Dr. Wendy Suzuki, a neuroscientist at NYU. Dr. Suzuki acknowledges her own struggles, as so many of us have, with sticking to a formal...
Tag - neuroscience
Linda Graham, MFT
My Favorite Tools to Change Your Brain
Research has shown up that because of the neuroplasticity of your brain, you have the potential to change your life by promoting happiness, trauma relief, resilience and overall peace of mind. You no longer have to be...
Lisa Brookes Kift, MFT
Wired to Connect: Why We Can’t Live Without Love and Belonging
Linda Graham MFT looks at recent research in social neuroscience from the new book, Social: Why Our Brains Are Wired to Connect. Not being connected socially is literally bad for your health. The need to connect goes...
Rest in Center
Rick Hanson, PhD takes a look at the experience of being “all over the place” and how to get centered. He encourages you to seek your wisdom, especially in the face of fear, anxiety and self doubt...
Rick Hanson, PhD
Do Positive Experiences “Stick to Your Ribs?” Take in the Good.
Rick Hanson, PhD takes a look at how the brain’s negativity bias sets many of us up to struggle with allowing positive experiences to stick. Scientists believe that your brain has a built-in “negativity bias.” In...
Resilience Through Creating a Circle of Support
Linda Graham, MFT examines how creating a circle of support as a refuge can build resilience, whether in life or visualized. Refuge simply means a safe, supportive place to be when we are fragile or confused, a safe...
Tools for Resilience: “Hand on the Heart” for Calm
Linda Graham, MFT looks at oxytocin’s ability to calm the mind/body and increase resilience. She offers an exercise to do that. Oxytocin is the neurotransmitter of the “calm and connect” response and...
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...
Do One Scary Thing a Day
Linda Graham, MFT looks at the benefits of doing something scary every day which can build the brain’s capacity for resilience. The scary things we could choose to do each day could vary quite a bit from person to...
Lower the Pressure
Rick Hanson, PhD looks at stress management from a neuroscience perspective and how we can “lower the pressure” we put on ourselves. Why? Things come at us with so much urgency and demand these days. Phones...
