A profile of an upscale, gay sober living house in the NYT: Avoiding the Undertow of Temptation. “A critically important component of recovery for people is a sense of community, not isolation,” said Robert J. Lindsey, president and chief executive of the National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence. In sober share houses, the people […]
As posted by the Mindful Awareness Research Center at UCLA. Nice, quick, lo-fi doses of calm and awareness. 5 minute Breathing Meditation 12 minute Breath, Sound, Body Meditation 19 minute Complete Meditation Instructions 7 minute Meditation for Working with Difficulties 9:30 minute Loving Kindness Meditation 3 minute short Body and Sound meditation. 3 minute short Loving Kindness
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A free CBT clinic launches this Sunday at SCCC. The flyer: FREE Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) Consultation Clinic The Southern California Counseling Center 5615 W. Pico Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90019 (323) 937-1344 Come receive a one-time FREE CBT consultation and education from experienced mental health counselors! CBT is a highly effective type of mental
Give an Hour connects vets with therapists who donate time each week. A collection of profiles of the organization is linked here. The mission is simple: GAH is dedicated to meeting the mental health needs of the troops and families affected by the ongoing conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. We provide counseling to individuals, couples and families,
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Alongside lots of other downloadable/streamable stuff at audiodharma.com, here’s a page of Guided Meditations (also downloadable and streamable). Lots to choose from–different approaches, different voices, different lengths, from 5 minutes to 50.
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The stress management section of MayoClinic.com has lots and lots and lots of ideas about how to handle stress. Here, a sampling of links: Stress relief: Learn how to say no Discover the why, when and how of saying no to reduce stress. Forgiveness Forgiveness and letting go can lead you down the path of healing
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Added to the resources page here, Chronic Pain Anonymous. New and not huge, you’re more likely to find online or phone meetings than one nearby. From the site: How do I know if I may benefit from Chronic Pain Anonymous? If your life is managed around your experience of pain and if you make choices
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A new page on the TMS Wiki details various approaches to journaling. They’re up there to help people with chronic pain, but journaling can be a big help to just about anyone. Among the approaches on the page: List Making, Spider Writing, Free Writing, Unsent Letters, and Dialogue. Several workbooks, which’ll help you through the
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Heard of this? Stillness Buddy. Designed for those who find themselves jumping from one thing to another on the computer without a second’s break or breath. From the site: Stillness Buddy works by displaying on your desktop screen, short “moments of stillness” and longer “mindfulness pauses,” spread out during the day. These breaks are very brief so
Do we start out with a sense of right and wrong or not? A long exploration in the NYT Magazine: [T]he current work…on baby morality, might seem like a perverse and misguided next step. Why would anyone even entertain the thought of babies as moral beings? From Sigmund Freud to Jean Piaget to Lawrence Kohlberg, psychologists
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