How Yoga Helps Mind, Body and Spirit
If you’re like most therapy clients, you’re likely experiencing two common problems. The first is a sense of being stuck in a mind that replays reruns of worries or past mistakes. The second is trouble dealing with emotions. Yoga offers an answer. I’m not talking about pretzel yoga, in which beautiful and hyperflexible women balance on…
Read MoreHow to Stop Repetitive Worrying
Do you feel stuck in worrying about the same things again and again? One of the most common problems people ask for help with is “How do I get out of my head?” The content of what people worry about differs, but the process of obsessive, looping thoughts is the same. As educated people, we…
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Yoga for Anxiety & Stress Relief Sunday, Oct. 6, 2019 4:30 – 5:30 pm Do you often find yourself stuck in repetitive worries or “driven doing?” Experience how simple movement and breathing practices calm your mind and body. Mindful movement practices help the brain change from habitual patterns of thinking. Gentle movement paired with breathing…
Read MoreHow to End the Food and Depression Cycle
If you battle endlessly with a cycle of overeating followed by depression, you’re not alone. Early in therapy I ask about what foods people eat. I’m amazed at how many people confess to overeating sweets and high carbohydrate snacks. Our food system excels at selling us tasty and convenient foods loaded with fat, sugar…
Read MoreHow to Live Through Pain and Grief
I just finished the classic “When Bad Things Happen to Good People” and highly recommend it. God does not will or cause our suffering, Rabbi Harold Kushner says. God has created a world that is mostly good and orderly, but He does not control people’s behavior or micromanage forces of nature. Therefore pain, suffering, and…
Read MoreOn Perfectionism, Risk & the True Self
Sometimes we make life much more complicated that it needs to be. As a recovering perfectionist, I tend to think if I can’t do something amazingly well, or if I can’t see how something I want to do will turn out, then I shouldn’t do it at all. Not surprisingly, that leads to self-doubt, feeling…
Read MoreYes, Change is Hard: A Spiritual Leader’s Advice
“Spirituality is always about you changing your own way of seeing and your own way of hearing (not changing other people!). It’s about opening your heart space every day and keeping it open with some form of prayer every few minutes if need be, so that the hurts and disappointments of life won’t close you down. You…
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