Mind reading is something that many of us do quite consistently. Like the other thinking errors it has become something of a survival skill. As a therapist in Burbank, Beverly Hills and Rosemead I have seen this many times in clients and patients. If you are in a rough neighborhood or a delicate situation, mindreading […]
Mind reading is something that many of us do quite consistently. Like the other thinking errors it has become something of a survival skill. As a therapist in Burbank, Beverly Hills and Rosemead I have seen this many times in clients and patients. If you are in a rough neighborhood or a delicate situation, mindreading […]
Methods for Dealing with Anxiety When we are dealing with deadlines and the anxiety it incurs, there are at least a couple of ways to help with that. How to Deal with Anxiety: The Top Down Approach. As alluded to in Part 1 of The Stress of Working in the Entertainment Industry, Dr. Bessel Van Der […]
Methods for Dealing with Anxiety When we are dealing with deadlines and the anxiety it incurs, there are at least a couple of ways to help with that. How to Deal with Anxiety: The Top Down Approach. As alluded to in Part 1 of The Stress of Working in the Entertainment Industry, Dr. Bessel Van Der […]
How to Let Go of Guilt and Shame. Or, 5 steps to forgiving yourself. In my years of working as a therapist in Burbank and Rosemead, California, I’ve worked in many different settings. I have consistently come across the reality that many people are saddled by guilt and shame, and cannot forgive themselves for past […]
How to Let Go of Guilt and Shame. Or, 5 steps to forgiving yourself. In my years of working as a therapist in Burbank and Rosemead, California, I’ve worked in many different settings. I have consistently come across the reality that many people are saddled by guilt and shame, and cannot forgive themselves for past […]
The Four Fold Breath: A very simple and extraordinarily effective Stress Reducing technique that I teach clients is something called The Four Fold Breath. It is actually a Pranayama Yoga technique known as Sama-Vritti. It actually means “Equal Breathing.” In Dialectical Behavior Therapy it is known as “Box Breathing “ or “Four Square Breathing.” […]
The Four Fold Breath: A very simple and extraordinarily effective Stress Reducing technique that I teach clients is something called The Four Fold Breath. It is actually a Pranayama Yoga technique known as Sama-Vritti. It actually means “Equal Breathing.” In Dialectical Behavior Therapy it is known as “Box Breathing “ or “Four Square Breathing.” […]
How to Deal with Anger A few years ago I did a websearch on Anger for patients that I worked with in an inpatient psychiatric hospital. I came across The SAP Model ™ by Dr. Andrew Gottlieb. As Dr. Gottlieb has pointed out “Anger is probably the most cognitive of all of the emotions. We can’t […]
How to Deal with Anger A few years ago I did a websearch on Anger for patients that I worked with in an inpatient psychiatric hospital. I came across The SAP Model ™ by Dr. Andrew Gottlieb. As Dr. Gottlieb has pointed out “Anger is probably the most cognitive of all of the emotions. We can’t […]
Plato’s Cave (from Wikipedia and modified with commentary by Bill Leavitt) The Allegory of the Cave (also titled Analogy of the Cave, Plato’s Cave or Parable of the Cave) is presented by the Greek philosopher Plato in his work The Republic to compare “…the effect of education and the lack of it on our nature“. […]
Plato’s Cave (from Wikipedia and modified with commentary by Bill Leavitt) The Allegory of the Cave (also titled Analogy of the Cave, Plato’s Cave or Parable of the Cave) is presented by the Greek philosopher Plato in his work The Republic to compare “…the effect of education and the lack of it on our nature“. […]
