Archives for May 2020

This is a great article about relationships during a pandemic. Esther Perel is a psychotherapist and has written multiple books. Rachel Syme from The New Yorker interviewed her and I thought I would share. Many of my clients face varied challenges with the stay-at-home orders trying to juggle work, school, children, unemployment, poverty, homelessness and […]

This is a great article by Edward Bullmore connecting inflammation and mental health and medical concerns.  More and more research is linking inflammation and depression.  The article states: “It’s now clear that inflammation is part of the problem in many, if not all, diseases of the body. And targeting immune or inflammatory causes of disease has […]

I wanted to include Michael and Raphaelle Tamura’s information.  They have been teachers of mine for many years.  Please visit their website, including their wonderful radio show.  They have a section on free stuff including a Spiritual Toolkit Downloadable Recording that contains meditation tools to help clear your space energetically. Radio Show – Living The […]

This is a great series published by Seven Days. Please click the link below to see all of the articles by Kate O’Neill. About this Series “In 2019, Seven Days published “Hooked: Stories and Solutions from Vermont’s Opioid Crisis,” written by Kate O’Neill (pictured below). The special report chronicles the state’s opioid epidemic and efforts […]

This is a great article about postpartum depression produced by NPR.  You can also listen to the article. There’s this kind of myth that women couldn’t possibly be depressed during pregnancy, [that] this is such a happy time,” says Jennifer Payne, a psychiatrist and the director of the Women’s Mood Disorders Center at Johns Hopkins […]

How long does therapy really take?  This is a great article published by the Psychotherapy Networker.  They focus on the research concerning how much time is needed for change to occur for psychotherapy sessions to be effective. “What the study concluded came as a shock to academic researchers who studied and promoted brief therapies—therapy takes […]

This is an old but important article about how mindfulness can be helpful with depression and other physical and mental health conditions. “Studies have shown benefits against an array of conditions both physical and mental, including irritable bowel syndrome, fibromyalgia, psoriasis, anxiety, depression, and post-traumatic stress disorder. But some of those findings have been called […]

The American Psychological Association’s cover story for the month of March focused on hallucinogenic drugs and the potential help with mental health. There’s some evidence that psychedelics may produce these benefits by making the brain more malleable. Carhart-Harris and colleagues used fMRI to look at brain activity in people with treatment-resistant depression who participated in […]

This is a great Ted talk by Lisa Feldman Barrett, PhD. Can you look at someone’s face and know what they’re feeling? Does everyone experience happiness, sadness and anxiety the same way? What are emotions anyway? For the past 25 years, psychology professor Lisa Feldman Barrett has mapped facial expressions, scanned brains and analyzed hundreds […]