Practices for Recovering Resilience
Resilience in the Face of Sudden Tragedy
The news of – and the newscast images of – the bomb blasts that killed three people and injured 100 others during the Boston Marathon last Monday instantly evoked shock, […]
Listening to the Intuitive Wisdom of the Wiser Self
First, an excerpt and exercise from Bouncing Back, then additional resources…. My client Matthew came to his therapy session one evening torn between two possible courses of action at his […]
Bouncing Back Continues to Evolve
Bouncing Back: Rewiring Your Brain For Maximum Resilience and Well-Being has arrived in bookstores; it’s more than amazing to hold my heart and soul in my hands. And to recommend that […]
Play and Laughter for Well-Being
The absence of play and laughter predicts divorce far more consistently than the presence of outright animosity. – John Gottmann, PhD, director of the Gottmann Institute for Researching and Restoring […]
Creating a Circle of Support
(The exercise below is excerpted from Chapter 5: Five Practices to Accelerate Brain Change in Bouncing Back: Rewiring Your Brain for Maximum Resilience and Well-Being. May it be useful to […]
Setting Limits and Boundaries
(Bouncing Back: Rewiring Your Brain for Maximum Resilience and Well-Being is on its way to bookstores (April 17). Below is an exercise from Chapter 9: Developing Relational Intelligence.) Ask a […]
Repairing a Rupture
Researchers have discovered that even in “good enough” close relationships, we spend about one-third of the time in actual relating (attuned connection), about one-third in rupture (mis-attuned or disrupted connection) […]
From Retirement to Renaissance
From retirement to Renaissance is a phrase from Michael Gelb’s book Brain Power: Improve Your Mind as You Age that inspires me greatly. How to foster vitality, creativity, and active […]
Self-Acceptance Project
Sounds True is offering a free, 12-week webinar series on Self-Acceptance: Finding Our Sense of Fundamental Worthiness, easy to stream or download. Tami Simon interviews leading teachers and authors on […]
Self-Compassion for Couples
(This exercise spontaneously emerged in a couples therapy session last night.) Elements: A 20-second full-body hug is enough to activate the release of oxytocin, according to Stan Tatkin at UCLA, […]