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 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 and…
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…
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