The Neuroscience of Mindfulness Meditation The strongest scientific evidence to date that meditation has positive health benefits comes from two meta-analyses (analyses of data pooled from multiple studies) of meditation research. The first meta-analysis of 47 trials with 3,515 participants found [...]
What Is EMDR? Many clients, including the public and colleagues are asking me questions about EMDR treatment for complex trauma and PTSD. I thought I would take the opportunity this week to answer a few of the questions asked. EMDR [...]
Learning to release trauma before we pass it on to the next generation PTSD is a whole-body tragedy, an integral human event of enormous proportions with massive repercussions. ― Susan Pease Banitt Intergenerational Trauma is the idea that serious trauma [...]
There is a clear link between pain and depression, but does pain make us depressed, or does depression cause pain? It’s easy to imagine that people with persistent pain have cause to become depressed. After all, it’s a problem that [...]
Written by Bo Forbes What does it mean to be embodied? And doesn’t yoga already take care of that? When we take a closer look, the answer might surprise us. Think of embodiment on a continuum. On one end we [...]
What is Interoception? Interoception is our ability to notice what you are feeling. This includes feeling if we you hot or cold, whether you are in pain, hungry or thirsty or even whether you feel happy, sad, safe or frightened. During [...]
Trauma Center Trauma Sensitive Yoga (TCTSY) is an empirically validated, adjunctive clinical treatment for complex trauma or chronic, treatment-resistant PTSD. Developed at the Trauma Center in Brookline, Massachusetts, TSY has foundations in Trauma Theory, Attachment Theory, and Neuroscience as well as Hatha Yoga practice [...]
For more than 40 years, Dr. Gottman studied what makes marriages work. I’ve observed thousands of couples, and many of them—the masters—can skill-fully solve their problems. Yet many others get stuck in their conflicts. Even couples who attend one [...]
The following video provide an overview of how EMDR is used in therapy, and information on the research into how and why EMDR works. Dr Andrew Leeds, PhD, discusses some of the research about how and why EMDR works. [...]
It helps during these challenging years of our lives to accept that loss and sorrow are the natural order of things. By accepting loss, we can make the moments and relationships between richer and more meaningful. Recently I had a [...]