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ARTArticleTHINKIATRY & SELF-THERAPY FOR DEPRESSIONTHINKIATRY & SELF-THERAPY FOR DEPRESSION Posted on Tuesday, January 25th, 2011 at 6:21 pmr THINKIATRY & SELF-THERAPY FOR DEPRESSION PLEASE CLICK THIS LINK TO VIEW VIDEO – THANKS! Webster’s Dictionary defines depression as depressing or being depressed; a hollow or low place; low spirits; dejection. We all have our own personal perception and definition. Most of us are afraid to publicly admit any level of depression because of society’s general view that people suffering from depression are mentally unstable, unpredictable, unreliable, and mentally ill.ARTArticleTHINKIATRY & THE FIVE PRINCIPLESTHINKIATRY & THE 5 PRINCIPLES Posted on Wednesday, January 12th, 2011 at 3:07 pmr THINKIATRY & THE 5 PRINCIPLES PLEASE CLICK THIS LINK TO VIEW VIDEO. Thinkiatry is a new word, created to define the Principles and a resulting new Self-Therapy Process to help virtually eliminate the negative thinking emotions our habitual thought systems have caused throughout our lives. These negative thoughts serve no useful purpose. In fact, our negative thoughts are at the root of all known human emotional dysfunction.ARTArticleTHINKIATRY & THE NEW YEARTHINKIATRY & THE NEW YEAR Posted on Friday, December 24th, 2010 at 12:37 pmr THINKIATRY & THE NEW YEAR PLEASE CLICK THIS LINK TO VIEW VIDEO. New Years is traditionally the time to commit to changes and new horizons in our lives. A new revolutionary, life changing field of study, practice, and self-therapy is presented this year for your New Years Resolution consideration.ARTArticleTHINKIATRY & THE NEW YEARTHINKIATRY & THE NEW YEAR PLEASE CLICK THIS LINK TO VIEW VIDEO. New Years is traditionally the time to commit to changes and new horizons in our lives. A new revolutionary, life changing field of study, practice, and self-therapy is presented this year for your New Years Resolution consideration. In recent times we have all seen, heard, and felt the significant rise in human emotional struggle from throughout the world and within our own unique personal lives. Fewer people are happy and are living more and more emotionally distressed lives.ARTArticleTHINKIATRY & YOUR HAPPIER LIFETo view this blog post on You Tube, please click this link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfokzzl5m04 On a scale of 1 to 10, how would you rate the average level of happiness in our world today, among your friends and relatives, and you personally? Everyone can agree that we all want to be happier and more content, but how do we do it? Where do we go to find out? How do we learn the knowledge, skills and steps required?ARTArticleWhat does a cardiac stress test measure?Many people think that a stress test measures the amount of stress that you are under. However, it is important from the start to point out that a stress test does not do this. What the stress test measures is the blood flow to and from the heart during stress (exercise) and at rest. Examining coronary artery disease can be difficult when the heart is at rest.The stress test is a diagnostic tool that doctors use to gather more information on coronary artery flow when the stress placed on the heart is increased.ARTArticleWhat is Life Coaching?What is Life Coaching? by M. Joy Young, Social worker and certified professional coach with Portland Lifestyle Counseling LLC ARTArticleWhat is Sex Addiction?Of course with all the news of Jesse James & Tiger Woods and of course Dr. Drew Pinksy’s new Celebrity Sex Rehab show, the question most often asked is, Is there such a thing as sexual addiction? As I have stated in other articles addiction is a complex issue. People find themselves doing behaviors, which they feel great shame and remorse about. The traditional definition of addiction has always been connected with physical addiction and withdrawal. But what kind of withdrawal comes from a process, like sex or food, not drugs or alcohol? If you did watch Dr.ARTArticleWhat is that Black Cat with Wings?I am currently enrolled in a 16 hour Hospice volunteer training program with the intent to serve as a Reiki and pet therapy volunteer. The first six hours of training consisted of five units covering the dying process, volunteer parameters, caregiver roles, special populations, and legal and organizational procedures.ARTArticleWhy I Chose AnimalsI suppose my mother had something to do with me loving animals. From the time I was five, she was bringing home creatures small enough to go undetected in our Brooklyn apartment: turtles, tortoises, and a half-moon parrot with whom I bonded so deeply that the memories of having to give him up (I had severe allergies) still fly at me like unwelcome shards of glass. I remember crying in the back seat of the car, my father double-parked with the engine running while my mother returned the bird to the pet shop.ARTArticleWork Burnout - Are You In Danger?Are You in Danger of Burnout? If you are a business owner or an employee, the holidays can be overly busy times. You feel the responsibility to your customers and clients. Added personal responsibilities for extra time needed to get gifts, attend social events can make you feel like you are burning the candle at both ends. Where is the time going to come from? This added pressure can bring you to the point of burnout.r ARTArticleYou Can Stop Anxiety Attacks and Panic DisorderAnxiety attacks, also known as panic attacks and panic disorder are different from "normal" stress. Stress and stressful events seem to happen to some people more than others. If you are a calm person, or someone who has learned to manage stress, life is easier for you. But sometimes an event happens in your life that frightens you. Nature designed your body to protect you from danger and is equipped with an automatic response to aid in your survival. You have undoubtedly heard about the common response to fright as being “fight or flight”.ARTArticleDifferences and Similarities Between Food Addiction and Eating DisordersWhat is food addiction and how is it different than an eating disorder? Food addiction has been viewed as a concept yet to be fully recognized and accepted by most people. It’s been described as follows by a group of professionals identified with it’s being a bona fide addiction:ARTArticleLiving fullyWe are born into this world with one thing—ourselves. So how do we make the most of this thing called our life? We can start by asking good questions, like: Who am I? What are my gifts? What do I love doing? What do I want to do and who do I want to be? How do I want to be with myself, my friends and my career? Is my career aligned with my true gifts? These are the questions related to how we do this life, not just what we do. This process of becoming is a life-long process that continues until we die.ARTArticleCould your excess weight be a form of protection?I recently saw the play Ruined at the Geffen Theatre here in Los Angeles. It was an extremely moving and poignant story of the sexual and emotional abuse of women in the war-tor Congo. In this fictional story, some of the female Congolese refugees were "lucky" enough to find work and shelter in a brothel, rather than being further abused and battered in refugee camps or worse outside the camps. Many women had no one to turn to as their family members were brutally beaten, recruited for battle and even murdered.ARTArticle3 Mindful Tips for Dealing with GriefWhen we experience deep loss in life – whether from the death of a loved one or a “death” in some other area of our lives – grief is a natural response, and it looks different for everyone. From outpourings of sadness or anger, to feeling shut down and closed off, to the countless variations in between that we may encounter day by day and month by month, grief is an emotional farewell tour we each must navigate in our own unique way. That said, there are some tools that can help us find our way through it with more grace and ease, and one of the most powerful of these is mindfulness.ARTArticle5 Things to Share with Your Partner5 Things to Share with Your Partner It seems like we are constantly being bombarded with things NOT to say to our partner. We have advice and guidance to help us not seem “needy” or “emotional”. We have rules for text back time frames and liking pictures on social media. But what about what TO DO? What about things that maybe we should be talking to our partner about? Read on to lea 5 Things to Share with Your Partner in a relationship: 1. Admirable Quirks or Habitsr ARTArticleAnger - A Powerful Force We Can Direct & ControlAll sorts of things can trigger irritability in people, from minor traffic jams to major headaches. Everyone gets upset or annoyed sometimes. We all have lost our temper and reacted without thinking. We have succumbed to anger that drives us to say and do things we normally wouldn’t. And it is when we lose control over our thoughts and feelings, that our irritability and anger can do some major damage to our relationships and lives.ARTArticleAnger Management Class: Anger Management PatternsAnger management classes are not a one size fits all enterprise. Everyone has a different history, which is why we all have different things that get us angry as my recent posting on anger management triggers explained.I’m proud that my anger management class is planned so that each person who takes it will get a different message from it depending upon their situation. One of the earliest goals of my anger management class is to help you recognize that you have a characteristic way of expressing your anger that may be different from other people’s way of acting out.ARTArticleAnger Management Class: Where Anger Triggers Come FromA good anger management class should help you to better understand your anger triggers. We all have them. For each of us there are certain things that just get under our skin and gets our blood boiling. It's a very personal experience – what angers me may leave you wondering why I am getting all bent out of shape over nothing and vice versa and I may be wondering the same about you. As a marriage counselor I've seen many couples struggle with this issue – "How can you do something so terrible to me and not recognize what a big deal it is? What kind of person did I marry?"ARTArticleAnger Management: How it Can Save Your LifePeople often joke about needing to learn anger management before they have a heart attack. Research shows that this is no joke - untreated anger management problems can lead to a variety of physiological problems, including heart disease.ARTArticleBecoming Your Own Mood ExpertDo you know that, by using some easy-to-apply tools, you can have a profound positive effect on your mood? If you practice my principles consistently, you won’t believe what a game-changer they are. ALL of us experience moments of highs and lows. They’re a natural part of life. What I’m talking about is learning how not to let our moods get the best of us. It’s about purposefully doing the specific things that lift you up or calm you down: whichever’s needed at the time. And it works for everyone.ARTArticleChoosing Language CarefullyLast week we started our conversation about procrastination. It’s something I struggled to overcome and could have gotten in the way of my dreams. Hearing the honest truth, that I didn’t have the discipline to complete my dissertation, was tough to hear. But sometimes it’s tough love that is exactly the wake up call we all need. Let’s talk a little more about procrastination, and choosing your language carefully…ARTArticleCoping MechanismsEvery day, whether it’s a fantastic day, a so-so one, a day of crisis, or during a pandemic, life is happening to you. Life calls upon you to decide how to respond, and how you choose to act makes a big difference in the quality of your life: how effective you are, and how happy you are. Would you like to learn to respond more successfully to what life presents? Then take a look with me in the area of coping mechanisms so that you can ingrain the ones that work best for you and let go of the ones that cost you too much.ARTArticleCOVID-19Knowing that most of you are being affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, I want to share some thoughts I’ve had for how to cope with the challenges you’re facing as a result. It’s easy to feel overwhelmed or unsure about what to do; this is uncharted territory for us all.ARTArticleDealing with Grief and Loss during COVID-19 part 2.Welcome back! It means a lot that you take your time to be here, especially right now when we're all juggling new responsibilities on top of our old routines. We started talking last time about feelings of loss, and I invited you to write down some of the feelings of loss you've been noticing recently, and what's been helping you, or what's been holding you back. I want to stress the fact that a loss is a loss, and what you're feeling today is not less of a loss compared to others; it's your experience of loss.ARTArticleDealing with Grief and Loss during COVID-19.Loss, death: it’s a part of the human experience. COVID-19 has certainly reminded us all of that. It stinks. Yet I want you to realize that there is a lot you can do to have it be less awful… for you and your loved ones. While it may be new, that this is the first time that we have all experienced major or minor losses at the same time, what isn’t new is that loss is loss is a loss. No matter the nature or the depth. I say this to reassure you: that you already know everything you need to manage really well right now.ARTArticleDealing with loneliness during COVID-19Given the social isolation mandates required to keep everyone safe during the pandemic, many of you are spending much of your time alone, maybe even separated from loved ones that you usually live with. It makes sense that you may be feeling lonely at times. After all, we are social beings: even introverts need human connection. Without it, our lives just aren’t as fulfilling. I have some tools designed to cope with isolation, steps you can take to feel better.ARTArticleEffective addiction treatment using holistic rehab optionOne of the most notable trends in the healthcare industry today is embracing alte ative or complementary treatment approaches into the standard therapies with many kinds of ailments. Addiction is considered to be a disease and it is one of the conditions where holistic treatment methods are being applied today. It has proved to be beneficial when used with traditional treatment approaches. What it really means?r ARTArticleEmotional Meltdowns- Five Techniques You Need to Get You Back in ControlOverreactions, emotional meltdowns. Something has happened to get you very upset. Or (more frequently!) a series of things have happened, and just when you thought you were handling it pretty well – “Bring it on! I don’t let stuff get to me” – boom. One more thing happens, it’s the last straw. And you feel the anger or the frustration build to a breaking point. Swearing, yelling, crying. Or maybe you shut down. You want to pull the covers over your head and say to the world, “I can’t deal. Leave me alone. I am DONE. I have HAD it”.

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