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How to Reestablish a Sense of Safety After Stress and Trauma

By Alex Scrimgeour
Alex Scrimgeour

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This article provides insights into regaining balance through self-regulation and co-regulation, highlighting the role of social support and physiological responses in overcoming trauma. Learn about innovative approaches that blend psychotherapy, neuroscience, and evolutionary biology to facilitate healing.

Rewiring Your Brain with Right or Wrong Mindfulness

By Alex Scrimgeour
Alex Scrimgeour

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The mind-body connection is central to understanding and managing stress. This article explores how neuroplasticity reshapes the brain in response to stress, highlighting the dynamic relationship between body, mind, and environment. Learn how reframing stress, embracing right mindfulness, and fostering healthy habits can significantly improve your well-being. Discover how to use neuroplasticity for positive change and enhance your resilience in the face of life’s challenges. 

Can Sports in Prisons Help Stop Reoffending?

By Martha Newson and Linus Peitz, University of Greenwich
Martha Newson and Linus Peitz, University of Greenwich

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Sports in prisons have shown remarkable potential for improving the wellbeing of inmates and reducing reoffending rates. Through organized activities like the Twinning Project’s football program, participants build social connections, gain valuable life skills, and improve their mental and physical health. This article explores how sports foster a sense of belonging and purpose in prisons, offering a path to rehabilitation and a reduction in the cycle of reoffending.

When to Start Therapy: Key Signs It’s Time

By Simon Sherry, Dalhousie University
Simon Sherry, Dalhousie University

Therapy can provide the tools to understand and improve your mental health when you're struggling with emotions or life challenges.

Struggling with overwhelming emotions or mental health challenges? Therapy might be the right solution for you. Understanding the signs that it’s time to start therapy, such as feelings of stress, apathy, or difficulty coping with life’s challenges, can lead you toward better mental health. This article outlines key indicators for when therapy may be beneficial and provides insight into why therapy can improve your overall well-being.

Is Our Deepest Wound Our Birth Trauma?

By Tim Read
Tim Read

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Birth trauma impacts our psyche but expanded states of consciousness can help heal these deep wounds. Revisiting your birth experience can have deep transformative power.

You Are Being Affected by the Trauma of Your Ancestors!

By Peter A. Levine
Peter A. Levine

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Nightmarish traumas can be transmitted over multiple generations. Indeed these implicit memory engrams had a deep impact on my life, particularly on some of my behaviors, and my haunting and pervasive feelings of shame and guilt.

The Highs and Lows of Psychedelics in Private Practice

By Maria Papaspyrou
Maria Papaspyrou

The Highs and Lows of Psychedelics in Private Practice

The shifting discourse around psychedelic substances from drugs to medicines and from getting high to getting healed has revived psychotherapy’s interest in the healing potency of transpersonal experiences...

Your Perfectly Painful Childhood: Pain Is Your Fuel

By Sue Frederick
Sue Frederick

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Everyone experiences pain throughout life, especially during childhood. Whether we felt unloved, inadequate, rejected, unlovable, impoverished, or were abused, we all grow up hungry in one way or another.

Why Do I Second Guess Myself?

By Sue Frederick
Sue Frederick

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Viewing your life through your ego lens inevitably makes you doubt yourself.

Why Do Mass Shooters Kill?

By Arie Kruglanski
Arie Kruglanski

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Why do mass shooters kill? It’s about more than having a grievance.

Could Psychedelic Therapy Be an Antidote to Separation and Fundamentalism?

By Rick Doblin, PhD
Rick Doblin, PhD

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The unitive mystical experiences that are frequently generated by the classic psychedelics can provide experiential confirmation of our essential commonality with all other people—indeed with all life...

Do You Have Psychopathic Tendencies?

By InnerSelf Staff
InnerSelf Staff

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It would be rare to have no psychopathic tendencies. Take this test and see just how many you have.

When Does Depression Become an Emergency?

By John B. Williamson
John B. Williamson

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Clinical depression, or major depressive disorder, occurs in 20% of the population over the lifetime. It can surface and differ from person to person in a variety of ways.

Emotional ‘Blunting’ and Antidepressants – What Is Happening?

By Barbara Jacquelyn Sahakian et al
Barbara Jacquelyn Sahakian et al

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We know that depressed patients commonly report “emotional blunting” after longer use of antidepressants, in which they experience a dulling of both positive and negative emotions.

Mental Health: It’s Not Always Good To Talk

By Dan Degerman
Dan Degerman

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Silence in mental illness comes in many forms.

Does Your Personality Need Upgrading?

By Eric Maisel
Eric Maisel

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If you are brave enough to appraise your personality and arrive at some conclusions about what changes you want to make, you will still be faced with the enormous challenge of actually changing your personality...

Overcoming Confusion and Indecision

By Jude Bijou
Jude Bijou

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Life is a series of endless big and small decisions. What to wear, whether to look for another job, what relationship needs to be let go of, or whether to go to a party. And sometimes, the options aren't so black and white.

Real and Sincere Apology: A Vital Life Skill

By Barry Vissell
Barry Vissell

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We may hurt someone through miscommunication or lack of understanding. Sometimes we hurt someone intentionally, like when we are angry. In either case, we need to apologize in order to...

My Prescription for Anxiety and Worry

By Jude Bijou
Jude Bijou

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We’re a society that likes to worry. Worrying is so prevalent, it almost feels socially acceptable. It's one of the less incapacitating symptoms of fear.

My Prescription for Anxiety and Worry (Video)

By Jude Bijou
Jude Bijou

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We’re a society that likes to worry. Worrying is so prevalent, it almost feels socially acceptable. It's one of the less incapacitating symptoms of fear.

Can couples therapy bring red and blue Americans together?

By Jill Kimball-Brown, Futurity
Jill Kimball-Brown, Futurity

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Workshops that resemble couples therapy left college students less politically polarized, report researchers.

What's Done Is Done: Be Here Now!

By Marie T. Russell
Marie T. Russell

Be Here Now! What's Done Is Done!

50 years ago, in 1971, Ram Dass published a book with the title "Be Here Now". It's still good advice. This reminder to be here now was brought to mind as I reflected on the general public's increased interest and acceptance of past-lives.

Trust and Hope Spring Eternal: How To Get Started

By Kristi Hugstad
Kristi Hugstad

Trust and Hope Spring Eternal: How To Get Started

Hope is not just a fleeting moment or a temporary feel­ing that things will get better. It’s a foundation for a lifestyle that reflects everything you do and everything you are. You can use hope to help motivate you to think positively and be proactive by making the most of every situation.

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