I just finished teaching an eight-week series entitled Mindful Health with a group of employees from Watertown Community Hospital. It was an amazing group of individuals. We talked about stress management, making changes, communications skills, letting go of negative thoughts, building confidence, and identifying strengths. The number one thing that people seemed to appreciate was [...]
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#gallery-1 { Art was abundant in Cuba and Jose Marti was a favorite subject. My artist friend and his lovely wife. The tour was sponsored by the International Network of Integrative Mental Health The classic cars were so much fun. Old Havana was full of [...] The American Psychological Association has recently announced its 2010 Healthy Workplaces. These are places that are committed to effective wellness initiatives for their employees. Some of them are investing a great deal of money in these programs but it appears that it’s paying off. APA’s five top award-winners reported an average turnover rate of just 9 [...] Here’s a great article written by a psychiatrist who is taking a new look at his methods. I am meeting and reading about more and more psychiatrists who are returning to the idea of longer sessions and getting people out of diagnostic boxes. Great news for everyone! A friend recently sent me the email below and I begged her to let me reprint it here. I was happily decking my halls on Wednesday… Lights on tree. Check. Garland on banister. Check. Ribbons on garland…better go get those. And that’s when I go down…slithering down the stairs toward my foyer in full hurdle [...] This summer (July 2010), Milwaukee will be going smoke-free. I am excited to hear it. More people are trying to stop smoking and they are using this switch as a deadline for a change in their own life. A recent study showed that hypnosis is as effective as standard therapy for people who want to stop [...] When I was younger I spent a week every summer at church camp with a friend of mine. We attended many church services and heard many sermons in those weeks but I remember one in particular. The minister was discussing the habit most people have of using prayer strictly for asking for things. He suggested that [...] As fall progresses, we continue to harvest wonderful autumn vegetables and my thoughts have turned to holiday meals and gathering with family. Growing up my family always ate dinner together. We even took turns cooking for each other so my mom wouldn’t have to cook every night. By 11 I had my own night to plan [...] I heard a great interview on Speaking of Faith on NPR a few weeks ago. Stuart Brown, MD is the founder and director of the National Institute for Play. This organization is devoted to research and initiatives which promote play as a therapeutic and necessary part of life for both adults and children. Dr. Brown asserted [...] There is a series of commercials on TV these days where one person asks another person a question and they just keep spouting out random information that is loosely related to the words the other person just said. It’s a nice demonstration of the information overload that we experience in our modern world. As Uncle Ben [...] |
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