The promotion of body awareness, nonjudgmental mindfulness, and mental and physical wellbeing is the reason behind the growing popularity of mind-body approaches in the Western world (Mehling et al., 2011). Approaches such as the Alexander Technique, yoga, mindfulness, and the Feldenkrais Method have all proved popular for reducing stress, enhancing self-awareness, improving posture and flexibility, […]

Dealing with a family feud? Family therapy can provide an avenue to both individual and collective healing for a multitude of different issues. The origins of family therapy did not emerge until the 1940s and 1950s (Carr, 2012). Researchers and clinicians challenged the dominant psychoanalytic view of emotional disorders by proposing that these disorders were

We’ve probably all heard of FOMO, or ‘the fear of missing out’. FOMO is the currency of social media platforms, eager to encourage us to compare our lives with those of others. For each post depicting health, wealth, and happiness, we might pay with the discomfort and dread of missing out on something, often forgetting

In our vast arsenal of therapeutic strategies, using journal prompts for self-reflection can be a powerful practice that bridges the therapeutic space and the client’s daily life. The journaling process involves the structured or free-form expression of thoughts, feelings, and experiences through written words. Research suggests that using journal prompts enhances self-reflection and cognitive restructuring,

“If it feels good, do it, you only live once”. Hedonists are always up for a good time and believe the pursuit of pleasure and the avoidance of pain is the highest good. However, it’s obvious that this simple definition of hedonism has a cost. Putting personal pleasure first over your responsibilities to others is

Anxiety can leave a person feeling totally alone. Countless people worldwide understand what it’s like and share the same fears, struggles, and behavioral tendencies (Forsyth & Eifert, 2016). While anxiety may feel unavoidable, mindfulness practices can significantly benefit psychological, cognitive, and physical health and manage experiences of anxiety (Shapiro, 2020). Mindfulness helps clients cope with

Let me guess – you love mindfulness, you have experienced many of its benefits, and now you want to teach others. Mindfulness is a skill that can benefit anyone, but who are you hoping to teach? Mindfulness can be taught to clients, as a practitioner, or to students, as a teacher. Your motivation for teaching

Since Jon Kabat-Zinn (1990) first published his seminal study of mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR), Full Catastrophe Living, training in mindfulness skills has become a popular intervention in a range of health and wellbeing contexts. So much so that the third wave of behavioral therapies (Hayes & Hofmann, 2017) evolved from a hybrid of mindfulness skills,

Each of us has been in a situation where we notice cognitive change in ourselves or someone we know. A parent who has difficulty using their smartphone, a friend who frequently asks “Did I tell you this already?”, or a spouse who takes longer than usual to read their GPS on a road trip. These

There is increasing recognition that unresolved trauma underpins many mental health problems. A range of treatments have flourished to promote healing from trauma, with talk therapy and medication being well known. However, there is another type of therapy that requires no pharmacological drugs and no need to revisit painful memories. In this article, we will