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Parenting Amid A Pandemic
As if parenting wasn't enough of a challenge, we now get to navigate tweens, teens, toddlers and everyone in-between, all while social distancing and explaining the very real need for us to take action against a disease. This is a good time to remember one of Holly Schweitzer Dunn's top three mantras: Parent emotion drives child emotion. When parents are mindful of their emotional state they are more prone to recognize the impact they have on their children. The brain hears tone before it...
Finding Purpose in the Slowness of Winter
Once the days begin to shorten and darkness pervades our evenings and mornings, it’s common to hear people express their desire to stay home more often. Absence of natural sunlight, combined with the lowered energy that accompanies our lack of drive to be out and about zaps us of the extra umpf we feel during other seasons.Somewhere in our American story, we learned that these things are inherently bad. Our lack of sunshiney disposition amid the grayer days became viewed as problematic rather...
July 2018 Newsletter
The Mind-Body Connection: Explained EMDR, or Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, is a form of mental health treatment that has primarily been used to address the effects of trauma. At Mind Body Health Associates, all of our clinicians are trained in EMDR and use it in their office as a form of therapy. While this treatment modality has been effective for a subgroup of our clients, it’s important to know that at MBHA, EMDR is more than a form of treatment - it’s a philosophy that...
Pairing Treatment with Yoga
Yoga can help you manage symptoms of a taxed nervous system and give you tools for relaxation. Our EMDR-based approach leads us to recommend individuals to take up a yoga practice, either at home, in a local studio, or privately for several reasons: It's bi-lateral movement, which calms the nervous system and preps the body to be able to better process our experiences, past and present. Mindful movement helps us dislodge our belief patterns in a way that sit-and-talk therapy doesn't do by...
The Mind Body Connection: Explained
EMDR, or Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, is a form of mental health treatment that has primarily been used to address the effects of trauma. At Mind Body Health Associates, all of our clinicians are trained in EMDR and use it in their office as a form of therapy. While this treatment modality has been effective for a subgroup of our clients, it’s important to know that at MBHA, EMDR is more than a form of treatment - it’s a philosophy that undergirds our treatment approach with...
May 2018 Newsletter
The Pace of Life Everyone is busy. No one has time. This seems to be the norm, but this does not make it healthy. This month, we focus on the pace of life and how to take your foot off the accelerator. Keeping Pace with Dis-Ease Culture is moving at 90 MPH, flying through the days like we're on the Autobahn. Therapist Landon Dunn asks, "what would it like to be running at 70 instead?" We can still speed along with a sense of accomplishment, but a more sensible pace will help decrease the risk...
Endings, Beginnings, and Transitions
In our line of work, we know that goodbyes can be positive, necessary experiences. Mostly, they’re not permanent, but they do accompany a new ordering of life or a new way of seeing the world. With graduation season upon us, perhaps there are a few takeaways that you can mindfully apply as you watch your little ones and not-so-little-anymore ones walk across the platform and into a new stage. Let us offer some thoughts on how to end things well, because we know that good things lie on the...