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Stress Less for Success: Letting your Rebel Buddha out to play
Happy Fall and an abundant Thanksgiving! It’s been a busy and wonderful summer and now that most of us are again dealing with work, school and the upcoming holiday season, I feel it is a good time to write about … Continue reading
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Tagged anxiety, becoming human, being yourself, buddhist, circumstances, collective history, constructive strategies, couples therapy, depression anxiety, disconnection, doomsday scenario, emotion, experience stress, fast paced world, fear, five senses, good time, holiday season, individualism, mahayana buddhist, memory, micro seconds, mindfulness, personal awareness, personal growth, psychotherapy, science of the mind, smell taste, stress and anxiety, super 8, thanksgiving, true happiness, unpredictability, vcr, wholeness, wonderful summer
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Airport Lessons on Anger
On-time, on-time, on-time, . . . San Francisco, scheduled for 9:00AM, now 10:05AM. I’m mad! An uncomplicated trip to the airport, pleasant drivers, helpful people checking me in and an easy rite of passage through security; all gone because I … Continue reading
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Tagged Anger, anxiety, buddhist, buddhist tradition, Forgiveness, frustration, good feelings, mindfulness, personal growth, psychotherapy, true happiness, wholeness
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Come Out, Come Out, Wherever you Are! Welcome to my Newsletter.
Olly olly, oxen free! In the children’s game Hide and Seek, the players stay hidden until found or called to come out of their hiding spots. As adults, if we stay hidden we pay a high price for our invisibility. … Continue reading
Posted in Happiness
Tagged anxiety, authenticity, being yourself, coming out, couples, couples therapy, depression, depression anxiety, mindfulness, personal growth, psychotherapy, ptsd, relationship, speak up, trauma, true happiness, wholeness
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OH! We’re All Stressed Out!
A teaching from the Mahayana Buddhist tradition asks “If you can change a situation, then why worry? If you cannot change a situation, then why worry?” This explains the reason for much of our stress in life. We worry too … Continue reading
Great Fundraising Video for Breast Cancer
Since laughter, joy and smiling are truly the best medicines, here is a delightful video that is helping raise funds for breast cancer awareness. This video was directed and choreographed in Portland last week as a fundraiser for breast cancer … Continue reading
Posted in Happiness
Tagged anxiety, depression, mindfulness, personal growth, psychotherapy, ptsd, trauma
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Becoming Human
People come to my office with symptoms of depression, anxiety, loneliness and relationship problems. Getting to know them I discover that in almost all cases they feel some level of disconnection from other people. They don’t feel like they belong. … Continue reading
Posted in How Psychotherapy Works
Tagged anxiety, becoming human, buddhist, cooperative groups, depression, depression anxiety, disconnection, fast paced world, human beings, humanness, individualism, loneliness, manifests, mindfulness, mutual dependency, personal growth, place in my mind, psychotherapy, ptsd, relationship problems, symptoms of depression, trauma, true happiness, warmth, wholeness
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The Big 5 Personality Traits for Happiness
Enjoying your life and avoiding or getting over depression is dependent on the “big 5 personality traits” according to UCLA researchers. These five traits are: a lack of excessive nervousness (neuroticism) the ability to be sociable and connect with other … Continue reading
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Tagged anxiety, depression, mindfulness, personal growth, psychotherapy, ptsd, trauma
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