How Knowing About the Teen Brain Can Change our Approach.

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Teenage parents and educators may be familiar with the feeling of having to cope with a volatile personality. A person’s mind and spirit may seem to flip inside out throughout adolescence, making them seem completely different from the youngster they once were. There are erratic mood swings, identity crises, the need for acceptance from peers, … Read more

Substituting Willpower with systems will make things effortless.

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Establishing routinesscuss systems and willpower. Because it’s difficult to pin down exactly what willpower is, I’ll use the phrase “that which is spent when I persuade myself to do everything that isn’t the natural action”.  Because I believe I have an abnormally low level of willpower, looking at my life through the prism of willpower … Read more

The Thought Laundry

We clean things. But when we vacuum, the cleaning is different. We go to those dark areas where we avoid going. Morning pages are deep cleaning daily. 3 pages of longhand writing. The practice is simple. I think one of the easiest parts of my routine. But the resistance can be immense. Morning pages are … Read more

CBT 2.0 – what’s New in 3rd Edition of Basics and Beyond.

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Strengths-Based Cognitive Behavioural Therapy “Our business is to get out of business”    Christine Padesky There is no way Beck’s CBT is gone go out of business. Judith Becks Basics and Beyond have always been a tiny window to look through what is going on in the Beck’s Institute. This edition is interesting. The upgrade … Read more

What is ACT? Acceptance and Commitment Therapy made simple.

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confused with Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapyor: #0e101a; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;”>Do you feel negative emotions? Of course, you do. What do you do when you feel them. The feeling of anxiety or depression is not comfortable. We want to run away from the feeling. We try to change it, manipulates it, push it away, or try … Read more

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