Week 1: The Science of Meditation, Art Therapy and the Science of Hope Week 2: Getting Emotions in Motion and Feeling our Feelings Week...

Class Notes This series is based on a combination of my own studies at Eckerd College focused on mental health and Human Development, my...

Class Notes: Hope is a feeling of anticipating that something positive will come or trust that what happens will somehow benefit us. It's...

Class Notes: Dance is the oldest expressive meditation on the planet. For tens of thousands of years our ancestors have been dancing...

Class Notes: If we want to be content with our lives and prosper to our highest potential-- it’s necessary for us to acknowledge...

Class Notes: Medical literature tells us that social support—connections with other people—helps prevent illness and when we’re ill, it...

Class Notes: When we create mental images, the areas of our brain associated with that sense light up with activity just as if we were...

Class Notes: As we’ve learned, high stress may keep us in a continual loop of fight or flight, flooding us with the stress hormones that...

The Gut-Healing Diet: Shifting your diet to a largely organic, whole-food, plant-based, high-fiber one is likely to make you more relaxed...

Class Notes For centuries, traditional medicine people all over the world have practiced the art of speaking to the physical body to find...

Class Notes Triggers are events—words, actions, or perceptions—that in some way resemble a past distressing event and bring back all the...

Class Notes The suffering of our fathers and mothers can be transmitted for at least two generations. A mother’s suffering produces a...

Class Notes: According to one study, one in five Americans were sexually molested as children Annually, hundreds of thousands are raped...

Class Notes: Animal Therapy When close human contact may seem dangerous or we’re nervous about developing a relationship that could...

Please remember to take the anonymous survey to help me better serve others in the future. Class Notes: Laughter is an expressive...

Accessing Notes and Videos:

Please take this brief survey. Please be as honest and thorough as you can be. Your answers are anonymous and will help me better serve...

Some people experience disturbing nightmares. There are things you can do in the short term and long term to deal with them. When you...