Blog: Mindfulness
10 Favorite Books Read in 2019
This week marks the completion of the 3,000 hours required for licensure as a psychologist, which also marks the end of my role as the Inner Fökus blogger-in-chief! Thank you...
10 Favorite Books Read in 2019
This week marks the completion of the 3,000 hours required for licensure as a psychologist, which also marks the end of my role as the Inner Fökus blogger-in-chief! Thank you...
Mindful and Effective New Year's Resolutions
The start of the new year is often synonymous with making resolutions and goals. We begin the new year by creating long lists of behaviors, habits, and thoughts we’d like...
Mindful and Effective New Year's Resolutions
The start of the new year is often synonymous with making resolutions and goals. We begin the new year by creating long lists of behaviors, habits, and thoughts we’d like...
Mindfulness for the Secondary Classroom
Mindfulness is the awareness of the present moment that allows a person to choose what to focus their attention on. Mindfulness can act as a stress-coping strategy because it can...
Mindfulness for the Secondary Classroom
Mindfulness is the awareness of the present moment that allows a person to choose what to focus their attention on. Mindfulness can act as a stress-coping strategy because it can...
Grounding: How to Use Our Senses to Calm Stress...
Grounding techniques are increasingly popular approaches to coping with stress, anxiety, and other difficult and/or overwhelming emotional states and experiences. They work by reorienting the person back to the present...
Grounding: How to Use Our Senses to Calm Stress...
Grounding techniques are increasingly popular approaches to coping with stress, anxiety, and other difficult and/or overwhelming emotional states and experiences. They work by reorienting the person back to the present...
“Worried Sick?” Why Your Stomach Hurts When You...
The stress response is often referred to as “fight or flight” because the changes that take place within the body are designed to prepare the person to perform those activities...
“Worried Sick?” Why Your Stomach Hurts When You...
The stress response is often referred to as “fight or flight” because the changes that take place within the body are designed to prepare the person to perform those activities...
How Antidepressants Work Part 3: Nonpharmacolog...
Last week, in How Antidepressants Work Part II: The Nitty Gritty, we discussed various ways antidepressants impact the brain. This week, we’ll explore nonpharmacological strategies that can also be used...
How Antidepressants Work Part 3: Nonpharmacolog...
Last week, in How Antidepressants Work Part II: The Nitty Gritty, we discussed various ways antidepressants impact the brain. This week, we’ll explore nonpharmacological strategies that can also be used...
Anxiety 101
Anxiety disorders are the most common class of mental illness in the US and affect approximately 40 million US adults per year (nearly 20% of the population!). Between the rise...
Anxiety 101
Anxiety disorders are the most common class of mental illness in the US and affect approximately 40 million US adults per year (nearly 20% of the population!). Between the rise...