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The following resources for informational purposes only. They are not intended to replace professional advice or care. Please ask your health provider (therapist, physician, nutritionist, etc) to make sure the ideas below are right for you.
Resilience in Parenting
Arash RamezaniParenting may be the most important and rewarding experience in a person’s lifetime. Yet, it can also be the most stressful. How can we be more resilient in these times? In other words, how can we respond more calmly and skillfully, and recover more quickly from life’s difficult experiences? How would this kind of resilience change the trajectory of your life? Becoming more resilience begins by understanding the nature of stress and stress-response. In the mist of chaos, there is a space between stress...
Resilienz in der Elternschaft
Arash RamezaniElternschaft ist vielleicht die wichtigste und lohnendste Erfahrung im Leben eines Menschen. Gleichzeitig kann sie jedoch auch eine der stressigsten sein. Wie können wir in solchen Zeiten widerstandsfähiger sein? Mit anderen Worten: Wie können wir gelassener und geschickter reagieren und uns schneller von schwierigen Erfahrungen erholen? Wie würde eine solche Resilienz den Verlauf deines Lebens verändern? Widerstandsfähiger zu werden beginnt mit dem Verständnis der Natur von Stress und der...
Working with Difficult Emotions
As humans, we have the ability to regulate each others emotions. An example of this is when a child is crying and the mother holds and soothes the child. This ability can be turned inward, by noticing and attending to our own difficult emotions. Chris Germer is the pioneer and author of the self-help book: The Mindful Self-Compassion Workbook: A Proven Way to Accept Yourself, Build Inner Strength, and Thrive Below is a link to a Mindfulness Self Compassion meditation on working with difficult emotions by Chris...
Calm & Clear in Midst of Pain & Chaos
Mindfulness meditation can strengthen our ability to remain in a grounded, calm, and clear state of mind, even when we feel pain, chaotic, and distressed. This state of mind can enable us to respond to the most difficult experiences with our wisest self. It can also activate the parasympathetic system, which helps our body and mind recover, rejuvenate, and relieve pain.Dr. Jon Kabat Zinn is the pioneer of Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR), and author of self-help books such as: Mindfulness Meditation for...
Personality as Parts
Thinking of your personality as a system of parts is an intuitive way to notice and work with our difficult thoughts, feelings, urges. An example of this is a part of us that may crave chocolate, and another part criticizing it for this. Each part likely has its own thoughts, feeling, and urges. Or you many have felt a powerful part of you that is wise, compassionate, skillful, and courageous, even in difficult, overwhelming situations. Although I don't do therapy or work with trauma, I find this vocabulary and...
Psychology of Thriving
Positive Psychology is the branch of psychology studying how people thrive. The link below will take you to an online Positive Psychology class by Tal Bin Shahar, PhD at Harvard University, Open Course, teaching the concepts and application of this field.Link