When I work with clients that overeat from stress, emotion or tension, I find mindfulness-based therapy to be a powerful approach to treating problems with food, eating and body image. What is mindfulness? How does it work? (more…)
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Mindfulness: How it helps with food, eating and body image problems
Mindfulness: How it helps with food, eating and body image problems
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Five Good Things About Aging
Five Good Things About Aging
When I was in graduate school, one of my most memorable experiences was with a woman whose name or face I don’t remember. She was a guest speaker from one of the eldercare organizations in town. She gave each of us the following exercise:
‘Write down the five things that you most value in your life – whether it’s your […]
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Top Five Regrets of the Dying
Top Five Regrets of the Dying
Bronnie Ware’s book The Top Five Regrets of the Dying – A Life Transformed by the Dearly Departing is a memoir of her work in palliative care with patients who had gone home to die. “I was with them for the last three to twelve weeks of their lives,” she says. “People grow a lot when they are faced […]
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Gratitude Makes You Happier and Healthier
Gratitude Makes You Happier and Healthier
Studies show that the regular practice of gratitude can increase not just your well-being and happiness, but also improve your physical health and your relationships.
I was in the audience as David Novak, then-President and CEO of Yum! Brands, explained to Business First publisher Tom Monahan how a boy who lived in 32 trailer parks in 23 states by […]
