I’m doing a lot of personal work on overcoming some really dysfunctional situations with my family of origin. I’m 71 years old, (which is hard for me to even believe, feel like I’m 30) and am...
Category - Emotional Health
Lisa Brookes Kift, MFT
Clear Emotional Leftovers: Rewire Your Brain for a Healthier Mind
Neuropsychologist and writer, Marsha Lucas, PhD believes that emotional leftovers are similar to leftovers in your fridge. They’re kind of messy – and much of the time they get old and you might...
Marsha Lucas, PhD
4 “Can’t-Miss” Tools for Improved Resilience and Emotional Health
I attended the Psychotherapy Networker Symposium in Washington DC recently and left with some highly useful tools to benefit your emotional health from the workshop, Neuroscience and the Art of Self Care conducted by...
Linda Graham, MFT
Who Says Our Dysfunctional Parents Did the Best They Could?
You all know this phrase. It makes me want to scream whenever I hear it, these days at least: They did the best they could. I just asked my spouse what he thought of the term, what it really means, and he said, “That...
Amy Eden
The Neuroscience of Resilience: Morality
(Post 9/9 in a series) As we learned in The Neuroscience of Resilience: Intuition, ”Intuition is a deep and profound knowing often below the level of conscious processing of what makes the most sense. The pre-frontal...
The Neuroscience of Resilience: Intuition
(Post 8/9 in a series) As we learned in The Neuroscience of Resilience: Insight and Awareness, “To cope with the mysterious and precarious unpredictability of life, we have to be able to expand our perspective...
Key Insights | The Neuroscience of Resilience : Insight and Awareness
(Post 7/9 in a series) As we learned in The Neuroscience of Resilience: Response Flexibility, “In order to cope with change, we have to be able to change how we cope. The more flexible someone can be, not...
Key Insights | The Neuroscience of Resilience : Response Flexibility
(Post 6/9 in a series) As we learned in The Neuroscience of Resilience: Empathy, “neuropsychologists see empathy as theintegration of body-based information and emotional signals and cognitive thought and beliefs...
The Neuroscience of Resilience: Empathy
(Post 5/9 in a series) As we learned in The Neuroscience of Resilience: Attunement, an important factor of resilience is attunement – which stems from a sound resonance circuit developed via early, secure...
The Neuroscience of Resilience: Attunement
(Post 4/9 in a series) As we looked at in The Neuroscience of Resilience: Emotional Regulation, the key to staying resilient around stressful emotions is to stay regulated; not to allow our emotions to hijack us. We...
