Clinical issues. Mindfulness as a practice to prevent compassion fatigue, using mindfulness with clients
Making it stick….. In our multi-tasking, over scheduled world, it can be hard to find time to incorporate hard-earned life lessons. So at day 20 of 40 Days of Letting Go, I encourage you to take a moment to note your progress, to absorb it, as Dr. Rick Hanson says,…
Welcome to day two of our letting go weekend retreat. I hope you allowed yourself to let go of your regular weekend routine yesterday, even just a little, and took some time to use Karen’s letting go yoga suggestions. If you missed yesterday, no problem! It’s not too late to…
If you have been joining us on the 40 Days of Letting Go journey you have probably noticed that “letting go” happens on many levels, including mental, emotional, spiritual, and physical. The letting go process may bring up a lot of buried emotions, and take a lot mental energy as we work…
Want to see something really cool in 3D? Take a look at real life! Look mindfully today at a tree, a train, or a teapot. Notice the depth and gradation of color – wow…. no special glasses required! Spending too much time on screens, whether it’s your lap-top or a…
This is not about a beauty make-over, But rather an inside make-over that might be long overdue. It might be time to let go of labels that you don’t want anymore, and maybe never even asked for. How do you identify yourself? You might say “I’m the mother of two……
I once attended a conference on mindfulness that included health care experts, corporate executives, and politicians. I learned that executives at Google were hesitant to join a company-sponsored mindfulness program because they were afraid to lose their “edge.” What exactly does this mean? Professionally speaking, or in other domains of life, what…
A health crisis, a job loss, a rejection letter….rejected love. We can tantrum, “it’s not fair”… “I don’t want to relocate!”….. “I can’t accept that it’s over!”…… The ideas of equanimity and acceptance are central to mindfulness meditation, and can help us welcome life’s detours. “Consider that not getting what you…
Last year I worked with a young man who just ended a three-year relationship. I watched as he went through the process of desperately holding on, blaming himself, lashing out, and feeling completely shattered and rejected. As a therapist I am able to stay detached from the suffering and let compassion…
Through the joys and sorrows, nothing has illuminated my parenting as much as my mindfulness practice, especially when parenting teens and young adults. The best part of mindful parenting is the increase in your belief that you are a good parent, that you are competent and you can make it through…
One of the benefits of your mindfulness practice is that you will build an awareness of the negative self-talk that proliferates your mind. At first, this may not seem like a benefit. Who wants to hear that voice more clearly? That voice that’s telling you you’re and idiot, a…
It’s interesting to note that before the coming of white settlers, some Native American tribes had no word for time – at least not time as we understand it today. The concepts of time and time stress are central to our ability to be in the present moment. Of course…
Yesterday we talked about letting go of fear. Today we look at fear again disguised as a too-tight hold on our self-image. The concept of the ego is often misunderstood. Freud defined the super ego as that part of us that keeps us from acting on our more primitive…
