Question of the Week - What's on Your iPod?
Let's make this simple: Your favorite music. What is it and what does it do for you?
Let's make this simple: Your favorite music. What is it and what does it do for you?
Last week’s sharepost, Challenging Negative Thinking - My Take, discussed cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and what I see as its pivot point, mindfulness - the mind watching the mind. Little did I realize that just a few days later I would be in the field, so to speak, putting my scribblings to the test.Let me explain:Nearly two weeks ago... Read more
Nearly all of us can point to a book that changed our lives - opened our eyes, hit us in the gut, pierced our heart. Suddenly, we were no longer the same, and neither was the world we lived in. This week's question:
Tell us about the book or books that had the most influence on you.
No limits. Feel free to make a long list or... Read more
"Challenging Negative Thinking," reads psychologist Jerry Kennard's sharepost."Pretty well everyone is vulnerable to negative thinking," he writes, "but if these thoughts become locked into a cycle of rumination, the result is almost inevitably depression."Dr Kennard is a proponent of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), which has helped me... Read more
I'm in CT visiting family. Yesterday, my brother and I did a ten-mile walk together on a scenic path along the Farmington River. This is about five miles more than I'm used to. Back home, in SW CA, I tend to walk about four or five miles some 3,500 feet up in the mountains.
The scenery yesterday was very different, but the same... Read more