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5 Intention-setting Ideas to Open Your Heart
/in Newsletter/by LindaThe Attitude of Gratitude: November is National Gratitude Month! I love the fact that November has been designated as National Gratitude Month, giving the practice of gratitude the attention it deserves! I have amped up my practice of gratitude this year as a way to keep my heart open. I could feel myself pulling back […]
Yoga for helping health professionals during a pandemic
/in Yoga/by LindaAs a helping health professional (HHP), I rely on my yoga practices to maintain mind-body health, work-life balance, and healthy boundaries with my clients. When colleagues share that they are challenged to maintain these things and ask me what I might do, my first response is all things YOGA. The responses I get range from […]
5 Intention-setting Ideas to Support Mental Health
/in Newsletter/by LindaOctober is Depression and Mental Health Screening Month! One of the many silver linings of this pandemic has been an increased awareness around mental health. It has been a long-held belief of mine that if we spent more time, energy and money on supporting mental health, we would radically improve our health care system by […]
Can neurofeedback be a “Nudge” to a Stuck Nervous System Due to Early Life Stress?
/in Neurofeedback/by LindaGrowing up in a single-mother household created a lot of stress and fear that stayed with me even as an adult. Such a household dynamic brings a greater risk of poverty, which creates challenges in securing a safe place to live and putting food on the table on a consistent basis. Fear in childhood from […]
5 Intention-setting Ideas to Help Save Lives
/in Newsletter/by LindaSeptember is Suicide Prevention Awareness Month and September 10th is World Suicide Prevention Day. Suicide is not an easy topic to talk about and yet that is exactly what is needed in order to reduce the growing rate of this tragedy. Conversations can make a difference when someone is thinking about suicide. Did you know that […]
Can focusing on emotions when talking with your therapist improve symptoms of Binge-Eating Disorder (BED)?
/in Talk Therapy/by LindaBinge-eating disorder, although not formally recognized until added to the most recent version of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM-5), is the most common eating disorder in the United States. Having experienced the suffering from this diagnosis myself in the past, I used to refer to it as an emotional […]
5 Intention-setting Ideas to Support Your Overall Wellness
/in Newsletter/by LindaNational Wellness Month! August has most of us experiencing “the heat” of summer, which makes us humans a little edgier and more prone to irritability, even more so during a pandemic that just won’t go away! Heat, of all kinds, makes us uncomfortable. Physical heat has been shown to elevate levels of cortisol in our […]
Might Yoga Help Prevent Teacher Burnout?
/in Yoga/by LindaThe pandemic caught most of us off guard and added significant stress to our lives, asking us at times to think out of the box to come up with creative ways to do what we did in the past differently. In a flash, life went virtual! Teachers, in particular, who, as a profession rank high […]
5 Intention-setting Ideas to Celebrate Our Differences
/in Newsletter/by LindaJuly is Disability Pride Month! President George H. W. Bush signed the Americans with Disabilities Act on July 26, 1990. This law is one of those major milestones in our history as it prohibits discrimination against people with disabilities. It is the official recognition that valuing and respecting each individual uniqueness is our collective strength. In order to continue […]
Can direct neurofeedback provide hope to those experiencing post-stroke fatigue?
/in Neurofeedback/by LindaAs a direct neurofeedback provider, I am continually amazed at the positive effects it has on people’s lives. I am in awe of the human body’s natural ability to heal itself, especially when it is supported naturally. I feel privileged to work directly in supporting the brain’s neuroplasticity and its innate ability to organize itself […]
5 Intention-setting Ideas to Support LGBTQ+ Communities
/in Newsletter/by LindaJune is Pride Month! This month we all have an opportunity to reflect on and perhaps learn more about the challenges endured by our LGBTQ+ communities and show our support. To kick off this journey, perhaps start by reading the POTUS’ Proclamation on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer Pride Month, 2021. According to the American Psychiatric Association‘s Mental Health […]
Can practicing self-compassion reduce shame?
/in Talk Therapy/by LindaI describe shame as that toxic, black mold that grows in dark, damp places that can make you sick when you don’t even know it is there. In order to get healthy, first we must become aware of the mold’s existence and then we need to invite air and light into the space, because mold […]
5 Intention-setting Ideas to Support Your Transition Back Out Into the World
/in Newsletter/by LindaAs Mother Earth is re-emerging from her cold winter slumber, I too am beginning to explore how to reenter the world during this season. I have found this process more challenging this year, due to so many unknowns. Yes, we have learned a lot about Covid-19 over the past year, and yet there is still […]
Can yoga influence the gene expression of your DNA?
/in Yoga/by LindaI believe so as I personally dove into all of the mind-body interventions yoga had to offer to prevent one of the most important risk factors for cardiovascular disease, which is the leading cause of mortality. Both of my parents were diagnosed with hypertension, with my mother getting the diagnosis in her 30s, and both […]
5 Intention-setting Ideas to Cultivate Compassion
/in Newsletter/by LindaMore and more research is suggesting that compassion is the antidote to what ails us as humans, both individually and on a larger societal level. So, if the answer is simple (yet perhaps not so easy), how might we contribute to the healing of the world that has such a compassion-deficit at this time? We must first acknowledge […]
When emotional dysregulation has us in its grip, might direct neurofeedback help?
/in Neurofeedback/by LindaWhen we are born, the parts of our brain that are driving the car are the ones responsible for our emotions. The prominent logical part of our brain – the prefrontal cortex – doesn’t start to grow until between the ages of 1 and 2 years of age, with the most important years in a […]
5 Intention-setting Ideas to Build Courage This Spring
/in Newsletter/by LindaThe fear that this pandemic has created is palpable. It is impacting all of us in some way. It is tapping into our primal sense of survival and bringing up stuff we thought was resolved long ago, but was perhaps simply hidden from view. Well as the days begin to grow longer, the light and […]
Can welcoming and accepting our unpleasant emotions change an unhealthy relationship to food?
/in Talk Therapy/by LindaGrowing up, my parents had two different approaches to emotions. One, my mother, expressed them all the time and the other, my father, never expressed them at all, believing that showing emotion was a sign of weakness. As I write this, I now know that my household was not all that uncommon. What I have […]
5 Intention-setting Ideas to Embrace Your Values
/in Newsletter/by LindaOur culture informs us that our needs are not important and instead suggests that it is better to focus on the needs of others. However, what if I were to say that our needs are our personal values. Would that make a difference in how you think about and embrace your needs? As humans, we […]
Can yoga change your brain?
/in Yoga/by LindaWhat if we could see inside of our brains when we are practicing our deep breathing, sun salutations, and savasana? Would you want to see/know what parts of your brain are being turned on and off or growing and shrinking? Well, this might not quite be reality yet, however, with neuroimaging technology what it is […]