Category: Articles
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Shoulding
Read more: ShouldingCBTer Judith Beck uses a client vignette to look at guilt and the “shoulds.” John holds certain values quite dear and believes he is violating those values when he doesn’t quite live up to them. He is plagued with the shoulds: I SHOULD work harder; I SHOULD be a better husband/father/son/sister/community member. Every time John…
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MBSR, Year One
Read more: MBSR, Year OneOn my blog at Psychology Today, a brief interview with Trudy Goodman about the dawn of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction in anticipation of Jon Kabat-Zinn’s UCLA appearance this Wednesday. Full Catastrophe Living (pictured) is Kabat-Zinn’s big book of MBSR. If you’re just curious and testing out mindfulness, you might try Wherever You Go, There You Are…
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Parents Need Sleep
Read more: Parents Need SleepA Q&A about the sleeplessness that comes with parenting. Chronic insomnia has been linked to a range of medical problems, from loss of concentration to high blood pressure…But can getting up throughout the night to tend to new baby cause long-term health problems as well?
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Couples Therapy
Read more: Couples TherapyAbout.com helpfully rounds up the wisdom about couples therapy in Does Couples Counseling Work? and Benefits of Marriage Counseling. There are people who stay in an unhappy marriage until the resentment builds and they feel they have no choice but to divorce. They don’t voice their unhappiness, they go with the flow hoping something will change…
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Being a Baby
Read more: Being a BabyJonah Lehrer asks What’s it Like to Be a Baby? [B]abies don’t have a spotlight of attention: They have a lantern. If attention is like a focused beam in adults, then it’s more like a glowing bulb in babies, casting a diffuse radiance across the world. This crucial difference in attention has been demonstrated indirectly in a…