Brene Brown is a social worker by trade who researched “wholehearted” people.
Read MoreNadine Burke Harris is a pediatrician trained in public health who began studying the affects of childhood trauma after noticing a dramatic increase in children being referred to her for ADHD. Her investigations uncovered that people exposed to childhood trauma dramatically increased the likelihood that a person would experience heart disease, cancer, suicidal urges, and a reduced life expectancy.
Read MoreThis is an excellent TED talk about new approaches to substance abuse and current deficits in addiction treatment.
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It’s been a busy few months: completing my certificate of advanced graduate study, settling into a new clinical position, and preparing to take my mental health licensing exam. As such, I’ve scaled back a bit on teaching for the summer and have been taking the time to deepen my understanding of yoga and psychotherapy practices.
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Schizophrenia is a mental illness that I think most people are familiar with, but know little about. Our stereotypes of people with Schizophrenia are largely shaped by the interactions we have with people affected by the illness.
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I reviewed in my previous posts the first two practices suggested in the eight-limbed path of yoga: yama and niyama. These are a set of values believed to bring a yoga practitioner into greater connection with his or her body and the greater world, practiced toward others as well as toward ourselves.
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