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What Is EMDR Therapy and The Benefits to Trauma & PTSD Patients
Post-traumatic stress disorder often kills lives without killing the body. It’s one of the things that leave people devastated in its wake, bringing its victims into a lifelong descent to the endless, soul-piercing chasm of horror by the past that brought them there. You could, perhaps, say that someone going through PTSD has never really, truly, returned. That if they have ever come back, the past eats them up [...]
Does CBT And Other Mental Health Therapy Help Eating Disorders?
When was the last time that you genuinely enjoyed your food? For people with anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and binge-eating disorder, the answer might be an “I don’t know” with a look away from you. Interesting as it may sound, however, the reality is that suffering from any kind of eating disorder can get more demoralizing than it could ever be described. Many who do suffer from eating disorders [...]
Recovering Empathy in a Changing World – Part II
Current research supports that empathy has steadily declined among young people from 1979 onward, and you can read more about its diminishing quality on college campuses here. Not only prized as part of a skill set and important value, empathy has already made a prominent appearance in various contexts with its international buzz status. Current research literature also highlights how building the capacity for empathy can have many prosocial [...]
Living Unhurried
In many dynamic ways, this season of the novel coronavirus has invited innovation at a deeper and more profound level. We have seen new ways to detect the temperature of individuals using a Bluetooth smart thermometer, burgeoning online teaching platforms to transmit information, and members of various societal organizations like the Toronto Symphony Orchestra that learned to perform together from 29 different locations using ingenuity from their smartphones. Innovation [...]
A New Year, A New Hope
It is interesting how quickly time flies. We are already into the second month of 2021. I would imagine many of us are happy to leave 2020 behind. What has the end of 2020 been like for you? With all the challenges of 2020, the last few weeks of 2020 were the most difficult for me. It started with being sick for a few weeks in November, followed by [...]
Acting on Personal Goals in a Meaningful Way
As we reflect on the past few weeks of a new year, it becomes important to know the “why” behind various goals that we set for a new season of our lives. Goal-setting becomes most meaningful when we sincerely identify moments in our past that caused us to experience coming alive and being most engaged. Behavioral science research currently indicates that knowing the “why” behind these goals is linked to [...]