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Mid-Life Crisis
Read more: Mid-Life CrisisA history, from Scientific American: [Season’s of a Man’s Life author] Levinson felt that midlife crises were actually more common than not and appeared like clockwork between the ages of 40 to 45. For Levinson, such crises were characterized primarily by a stark, painful “de-illusionment” process stemming from the individual’s unavoidable comparison between his youthful…
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West Meets East
Read more: West Meets EastRonald Siegel wrote this long article about mindfulness and psychotherapy for the clinician-readers of Psychotherapy Networker. Doesn’t mean you can’t give it a look. A sample: [M]indfulness is the opposite of experiential avoidance…It allows us to feel the urge to have an alcohol drink arise and pass rather than heading to the bottle, to get on the…
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Guided Meditations
Read more: Guided MeditationsAnother source of free guided mindfulness meditations emerges: Spotify. Here are a few collections that showed up in a search there. Plenty more where these came from. Enjoy. Judith Day – Introduction To Mindfulness Meditation Jon Kabat-Zinn – Mindfulness Meditation For Pain Relief Richard K. Nongard – Mindfulness Meditation Techniques: Guided Meditations to Help You…
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Decision Fatigue
Read more: Decision FatigueThe NYT Magazine asks, Do You Suffer From Decision Fatigue? It’s different from ordinary physical fatigue — you’re not consciously aware of being tired — but you’re low on mental energy. The more choices you make throughout the day, the harder each one becomes for your brain, and eventually it looks for shortcuts… Echoing this TED…
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Grounding the Helicopter
Read more: Grounding the HelicopterToward a less hovering approach to parenting: How to Land Your Kid in Therapy (The Atlantic). [A]ll of this worry about creating low self-esteem might actually perpetuate it. No wonder my patient Lizzie told me she felt “less amazing” than her parents had always said she was. Given how “amazing” her parents made her out…