Funny man Ben Aaron, a TV reporter and all-around nice guy at NBC’s LXTV San Diego, shows us a new fitness craze he has developed that he calls DANCE WALKING. Ben’s Dance Walking concept is taking off. “Schools are showing the Dance Walk video to their students,” he posted on his Facebook page. “They’re [...]
Wanting to see the natural, native experience of attachment bonding? This lovely trailer (I’m anticipating the movie/documentary) that director Alastair Fathergill and DisneyNature did on chimpanzees and three years in the life of little Oscar one of the chimpanzees in the forests of the Ivory Coast and West Africa. Here’s a link to hear Jane [...]
Alice Rosen has written here on the blog before. Click here to read her post on the Hard Heart Revisited. When it comes to eating and weight related issues I suspect that many of us think that Manager-led eating and focusing upon weight loss is the way to go. This is the epitome of the Diet Mentality. [...]
If you haven’t had the absolute and joyous pleasure of interacting with the artist Deb Koffman I encourage you to wholeheartedly and absolutely take the plunge. Her latest book, The Magic Lamp is short, sweet, and a guide to how to use imagination to change your life. One of the things I [...]
It’s often hard to chart the path forward into the unknown. We might not like the past — but we know how to do it. It seems easier to do what we already know to do – even when we don’t like what we’re doing or like the outcome. When we’re faced with a crossroads [...]
My colleague and friend, Barbara Holtzman wrote a terrific book about eating, Conscious Eating, Conscious Living. She recently returned from Italy. I asked her if I could reprint the following article for you. I want to wish you a happy Thanksgiving and holiday season - one where you feel connected to loved ones, feel a sense of peace and [...]
I’ve known Karma Kitaj for years and love her stance on creating a vibrant, lively life as we get older. Her latest blog post in the Huffington Post pulls together so many things that I believe in and support with the Becoming Safely Embodied Skills. Karma covers a lot of good territory in her post. [...]
While listening to clients I am often awed at the wisdom that so naturally arises from them. Sometimes I find my jaw delightedly dropped by what they say. It reminds me that psychological truth ends up documented in the literature because it’s grounded in experience of living human beings not some static concept that someone had and thought it [...]
Beth Rontal and Patricia Thatcher, experienced therapists and wonderful people, created a twelve week program to help people reduce their overeating. I’ve taken this excerpt from an article Beth Rontal and Patricia Thatcher wrote that was published in the NASW Focus in February, 2011. The excerpt below is the “Findings and Discussion” of the article. [...]
There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.