Dan Siegel on Explicit Memory
Dr. Daniel J. Siegel uses his “hand model” of the brain to show school kids, and the rest of us, how we need all three of the brain’s main parts to be working, and to work together. Say the wrist is...
View ArticleDissociation Nation: Half a Brain
Dan Siegel’s webinar “How Mindfulness Can Change the Wiring of Our Brains,” which I found by accident in March 2011, insisted that we can re-wire our brains. Siegel actually used neuroplasticity and...
View ArticleDan Siegel, Goldie Hawn: The Joyful Brain
I’ve got more great short videos by Dr. Dan Siegel, MD for you this week, at the links below. I’ll be blogging every other Friday so I can bear down on my book. Dan Siegel – “Being” Versus “Doing”...
View ArticleNew Brain Series
Webinar Series in Progress, April 8-May 13 Dr. Dan Siegel kicked off the National Institute for the Clinical Application of Behavioral Medicine’s invaluable 2015 “New Brain Series” of weekly webinars...
View ArticleRomance, Dating and Trauma
Why Dating Never Heals Emotional Pain People with attachment troubles or other child trauma often ask: why is dating so difficult? It is, for a reason. So instead of the dating hunt, I invested my...
View ArticleTapping (Emotional Freedom Technique)
I’ve used Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT), popularly called “tapping,” for four years, and gotten major relief from severe fight-flight emotions like fear and anger (emotions I could feel). I’ve...
View ArticleHow to Tap for Emotional Relief
Click image to enlarge I’ve used Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT), aka tapping, for years, as I wrote in Part 1 on “what is tapping.” Now for how to tap. “The basic technique requires you to focus on...
View ArticlePsychotherapy and Love
Photo credit: PlumVillage.org I went through three bad therapists before I found my current one, and for the first two years, I kept asking him the same question: “You’re just a hired gun, right?...
View ArticleGrief Recovery Handbook, Part 1
The “Grief Recovery Handbook” by John James and Russell Friedman is an invaluable tool for healing emotional pain and loss. It saved me after the death of my parents and my divorce, which all happened...
View ArticleGrief Recovery Handbook, Part 2
In Part 1, I summarized the Grief Recovery Handbook (GRH) instructions for making a lifetime Loss History Graph; then figuring out which personal relationships dealt us the most of these...
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