How Managing Your Anxiety Can Make You a Better Leader
A conversation with author Morra Aarons-Mele about rethinking work and mental health.
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Hiking with Joy: The Power of Intergenerational Connections with Brad Ryan
Brad Ryan and Karen Allen weigh the pros and cons of ambition, and how the untold pressure of social perception and judgement keeps us silent.
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For Kids With Mental Health Issues, Pediatricians Are Often Only Source for Care
By Amy Norton HealthDay ReporterMONDAY, April 17, 2023 (HealthDay News) — With so many American kids and teens dealing with depression or anxiety,…
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Amid ADHD med shortage, parents fear sending unmedicated kids to school
The ADHD medication shortage is creating huge problems for children who rely on the prescriptions.
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For three years I denied my body the nutrition it needed. My teeth broke, my hair thinned, my periods stopped. But, in that too-small body I was praised…
I’ve spent a lot of time reflecting since 2020. Most of that reflection is done in the mirror, incidentally. For more than three years I had denied my body the nutrition it needed to function. My teeth broke, my hair thinned, as I did, and then it fell out in loud clumps in the shower. My periods stopped as my body tried to distribute the few calories I was giving it to my vital functions. My blood pressure plummeted. My social life disintegrated as I turned down offers of gatherings out of fear there would be food I couldn’t avoid. My feet bled in my shoes from excessive walking. I ruptured a tendon in my fist from over-exercising. I was constantly cold and miserable. But I was beautiful. They said.
The integration of yoga breathing techniques in cognitive behavioral therapy for post-traumatic stress disorder: A pragmatic randomized controlled trial
In trauma-focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT), stabilization techniques are used before confrontation ones to increase stress/affect tolerance and thus effectiveness of CBT. This study investigated the effects of pranayama, meditative yoga breathing and breath holding techniques, as a complimentary stabilization technique in patients with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Seventy-four PTSD-patients (84% female, 44.2 ± 13 years) were randomized
