Diets Make You Feel Bad. Try Training Your Brain Instead.

By Tara Parker-Pope New York Times Jan. 3, 2022,  Here’s a New Year’s resolution you can keep: Stop dieting and start savoring your food instead. That may seem like surprising advice, but there’s mounting scientific evidence to suggest that diets don’t work. Research...

The Yin and Yang of Self-Compassion

Self-compassion has attributes that are seemingly opposite, while simultaneously being complementary and interdependent, as the concepts of yin and yang in traditional Chinese philosophy. The yin of self-compassion represents “being with” ourselves in a compassionate...

COVID 19 PANDEMIC

ON-LINE RESOURCES Hamilton Health Sciences Resilience Resources Page with 21 recorded resilience themed 20 minute discussion/ meditations. 2. Free Online Meditation Resources for Times of Social Distancing/Covid-19 3. AWAKE NETWORK 4. “How Communities Can...

Even Mindfulness Meditation Has Turned Into a Minefield

Matthew Legge Psychology Today July 29 2019 A recent essay that offered a critique of mindfulness is creating quite the stir. I’ll show how this follows a pattern I’ve seen. Over the last few years, I’ve been reading about a wide range of topics, largely...