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21 Daily Practices to Improve Your Relationship
Use the science of mindfulness and CBT to strengthen your bond.
Nothing has a bigger influence on our well-being than the quality of our closest connections. In this blog, Seth Gillihan PhD, offers 21 ways to build stronger and closer relationships. Plus, he's giving away his FREE Worksheet: 10 Ways to Manage Stress and Anxiety Every Day.
EMDR: Safety and Stabilization
When and with whom do we use EMDR?
In addition to improved practice outcomes, effective integration of EMDR can lead to the long-term trauma resolution that your clients so desperately desire. But we need to stop and ask: when and with whom do we use EMDR?
Introduction to Yoga for Trauma Treatment
Adding simple yoga poses to talk therapy can help your clients break the crippling grip of trauma faster (NO yoga certification or crazy flexibility required)
Irina Diyankova, PhD, RYT-200 busts some stubborn myths about yoga and who it’s for (hint: It’s NOT just for skinny, flexible people). You’ll also discover the many benefits of using yoga in trauma treatment.
14 Products to Spread the Love
Be Your Best Self, To Be the Best Partner
This month focus on loving yourself to better love those around you. These 14 titles rooted in Self-Compassion, Gratitude and Deep Conversation will help grow your heart to spread your love beyond yourself.
Dr. Bessel van der Kolk on Interoception & Yoga
Effective Trauma Treatment
It’s frustrating when your client gets stuck — overwhelmed by fear, shame, helplessness...Here’s one solution that’s extremely effective in moving therapy forward.
Hiding in Plain Sight: Polyvagal Theory in Contemporary Song Lyrics
Dr. Stephen Porges, the founder of Polyvagal Theory, reveals the principles of this groundbreaking theory as shown in hundreds of contemporary song lyrics.
Polyvagal Theory is a brain-body science that’s helped thousands of therapists make significant breakthroughs with clients suffering the impacts of trauma. And it’s everywhere, all around us, hiding in plain sight.
Breathing Is the Key to Managing Stress and Anxiety
Simple breathing exercises can calm you down when you’re overwhelmed by stress and anxiety.
Stress and anxiety are a part of life, no question. But chronic stress and worry, if left unchecked, can harm both your physical and mental health. The first step to controlling your body’s responses to stress is to control your breathing, using these simple techniques.
19 Best Books of 2019
These top selling titles are highly purchased and praised by your colleagues and even some clients
2019 was a year of great growth in awareness and social acceptance towards mental health. These 19 titles are our most popular and highly praised resources with professionals and lay-people alike.
Cultivate Gratitude to Fight Anxiety in Children
Showing appreciation for our kids makes it easier for them to appreciate others, and themselves.
Jennifer Cohen Harper shares easy ways to promote gratitude and positivity in your child’s day to day life.
Play Therapy Activities to Help Kids Achieve Greater Self-Regulation
Interventions based in Play Therapy and Mindfulness to understand and improve the world of children
Tracy Turner-Bumberry, LPC, RPT-S, CAS, shares simple, playful and on-point interventions that combines mindfulness, expressive arts and play to help kids achieve greater self-regulation, focus more and stress less.