This post is the final post in my blog series Five Key Factors of How Therapy Helps. TRY THIS AT HOME. Therapy will often quite naturally stimulate people to apply what they’re learning about themselves between sessions. People also frequently have insights between sessions, and some will write them down. But sometimes, particularly during periods […]
Therapy
Third Key Factor: What Goes on in Therapy
This post is the 3rd post in my blog series Five Key Factors of How Therapy Helps. People who have not been in therapy before naturally wonder, “What goes on in therapy?” I try to put clients at ease to feel safe enough to talk freely about their thoughts and feelings. I hope to create […]
Refraining
Welcome to the Exploring Mindfulness Series
Announcing Exploring Mindfulness, a blog series for starting, re-starting, or maintaining the practice of mindfulness. Mindfulness can be described simply as seeing clearly in the here and now. I chose Pema Chödrön’s book When Things Fall Apart as our guide because, through this book, she is a calm and reassuring voice in helping us to […]
Does Light Affect Our Mood?
The short answer is that there is strong evidence that light affects mood and energy for people who have seasonal depression diagnosed as Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD), it may help conventional depression, and probably gives a boost to anyone feeling the blues especially during the winter. The best thing to do is to get […]