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Archive for August, 2009

Mondays Mindful Quote: Dalai Lama on Kindness

Monday, August 31st, 2009

Welcome to Monday's Mindful Quote. This is a new tradition at the Mindfulness and Psychotherapy Blog. Every Monday I'm going to cite a quote or a poem that is related to mindfulness and psychotherapy in some way and ...

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Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy: An Interview with Zindel Segal

Friday, August 28th, 2009

It is my honor to interview Zindel Segal, Ph.D., a specialist in depression and creator, along with Mark Williams, Ph.D. and John Teasdale, Ph.D, of the increasingly popular program for depressive relapse, Mindfulness-Based Cognitive ...

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How Facebook Can Ruin Your Friendships: A Commentary

Wednesday, August 26th, 2009

OK, I couldn't pass this one up because Facebook and Twitter have become such revolutionary mediums of a new type of communication. In a recent article in the Wall Street Journal, Elizabeth Bernstein wrote ...

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Mondays Mindful Quote: Pema Chodron on Difficult People

Monday, August 24th, 2009

There is a new tradition starting today on the Mindfulness and Psychotherapy Blog. Every Monday I'm going to cite a quote or a poem that is related to mindfulness and psychotherapy in some way and then ...

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The Courage to be Present: An Interview with Karen Kissel Wegela

Friday, August 21st, 2009

The first time I came across the title of Karen Kissel Wegela's book The Courage to Be Present I said to myself, "how true." In ...

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3 Steps to Making Change Stick

Wednesday, August 19th, 2009

Whether we're trying to work on stress, anxiety, depression, or addiction, many of us try to integrate new practices in our lives only to find that they don't really stick. The gravity of our everyday ...

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Mondays Mindful Quote: Waltor Landor on Happiness

Monday, August 17th, 2009

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Working with Stress, Pain, & Illness: An Interview with Bob Stahl, Ph.D.

Friday, August 14th, 2009

Today I have the honor of interviewing Bob Stahl, Ph.D., a longstanding Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) teacher, co-author of A Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Workbook (New Harbinger, February 2010), the audio CD Mindful Healing: ...

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Back to School: 3 Tips to Get Your Kid on Track

Wednesday, August 12th, 2009

That's right, it's creeping around the corner. It's time for parents and caregivers to jettison their kids back to school. Some kids handle this really well, feeling excited to get the new notebooks, pens, and ...

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