Middle age, often defined as the years between 40 and 65, is a time of significant transition for many women. It’s a period marked by physical, emotional, and social changes, which can ripple through all aspects...
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Lisa Brookes Kift, MFT
Disempower Your Shame
Shame is sneaky. It lurks in the shadows. Shame is secretive and powerful in it’s ability to impact the way you feel about yourself at the very core. It creeps into your sense of self and can negatively impact...
Mitigate the Stress Response with a Hand on Your Heart
Linda Graham, MFT and author of Resilience: Powerful Practices for Bouncing Back from Disappointment, Difficulty and Even Disasters, shares a highly effective stress relieving exercise that encourages the release of...
Linda Graham, MFT
What Can You Do When You’re Shaken?
Rick Hanson, PhD, looks at the need we all have to find a place to stand firmly; whether it be physically, psychologically or spiritually. He offers ways to find stability when you feel shaken or out of control. I’ve...
Rick Hanson, PhD
Improving Your Everyday Life Through Art Therapy
Caileigh Flannigan, a Developmental Interventionist in Canada uses forms of play such as exploring the outdoors and art as a way to promote children’s development and emotional healing. In this piece she looks at ways...
Bite-Sized Meditations for the Busy Human Being
The third in a series by Linda Graham, MFT, based on Healthy Brain, Happy Life by Dr. Wendy Suzuki, a neuroscientist at NYU. Dr. Suzuki acknowledges her own struggles, as so many of us have, with sticking to a formal...
Ways to Stay Relaxed Throughout Your Day
If you’re like many, your life is go-go-go. You do your best to balance family, friends, social life, work and other obligations. The expectations that you and others place on you are always there. Making it...
The Elusive Balance Between Work, Family, Intimate Relationships and Self
Life balance. A destination or way of being? It’s like some kind of mysterious creature that many of us seek. For a brief time it reveals itself, we think we’ve honored and befriended it then just when we...
Being Compassionate and Being Too Busy Often Don’t Mix
Linda Graham, MFT looks at the challenge that being “too busy” creates for maintaining a sense of kindness and compassion to others. She offers an exercise to help you slow down and practice self-compassion...
Staying Calm in an Unsettled World
It seems to me the news has been particularly disturbing lately. Whether it’s ideological groups thrusting aggressively forward with psychologically terrifying tactics, a disturbing disease stealing the lives of...
