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Skillful Means: Self-Advocacy
Your Skillful Means, sponsored by the Wellspring Institute, is designed to be a comprehensive resource for people interested in personal growth, overcoming inner obstacles, being helpful to others, and expanding consciousness. It includes instructions in everything from common psychological tools for dealing with negative self talk, to physical exercises for…
From Striving to Thriving
© 2021 Diana Hill, PhD In graduate school, I had a sticker on my water bottle that said, “My thighs carry me up the mountain.” I was researching Dialectical Behavior Therapy for eating disorders at the time, and spent most of my days with young women who were doing everything…
Skillful Means: Community Service / Charity
Your Skillful Means, sponsored by the Wellspring Institute, is designed to be a comprehensive resource for people interested in personal growth, overcoming inner obstacles, being helpful to others, and expanding consciousness. It includes instructions in everything from common psychological tools for dealing with negative self talk, to physical exercises for…
The Hidden Gifts of Addiction
© 2021 Victor Bucklew, PhD Certain sections adapted with permission from the Nautilus award winning book, The Hidden Gifts of Addiction: The Direct Path of Recovery, Rock Creek Canyon Publishing. * * * The Many Shades of Addiction Most of us have felt trapped at one time or another in…
Skillful Means: Full Body Awareness
Your Skillful Means, sponsored by the Wellspring Institute, is designed to be a comprehensive resource for people interested in personal growth, overcoming inner obstacles, being helpful to others, and expanding consciousness. It includes instructions in everything from common psychological tools for dealing with negative self talk, to physical exercises for…
Self-Compassion for Pain
© 2021 Christiane Wolf, MD, PhD Excerpt from Outsmart Your Pain: Mindfulness and Self-Compassion to Help You Leave Chronic Pain Behind by Christiane Wolf, MD, PhD. Reprinted by permission of the publisher, The Experiment, LLC. * * * Who among us likes to be in pain? Anyone? No? So, when…
Dreamwork: Adding Dimensions of Depth, Creativity and Transformation to Inner Life
© 2019 Dr. Leslie Ellis Those engaged in contemplative practices already understand the value of tending to your inner life, and encouraging your clients to do so. Paying attention to dreams adds richness, creativity and depth to inner process. Those who already have a meditative practice often find it enriches…
Wizard of Oz
© 2020 Grace Tsuyuki “There’s no place like home.” What if home was always a place right there in your heart? YOU were forever connected and not far away from Kansas at all? What if finding your heart….. your brain…. and your courage……. Was just connecting to yourself… moment-by-moment-by moment?…
Good morning, I love you
© 2020 Shauna Shapiro PhD And did you get what you wanted from this life, even so? I did. And what did you want? To call myself beloved, to feel myself beloved on the earth. –Late Fragment by Raymond Carver [written while dying of cancer] Eleven years ago, I went…
Mind Bending Awe
© 2020 Jonah Paquette From Awestruck: How Embracing Wonder Can Make You Happier, Healthier, and More Connected by Jonah Paquette © 2020 by Jonah Paquette. Reprinted in arrangement with Shambhala Publications, Inc. Boulder, CO. The feeling of awed wonder that science can give us is one of the highest experiences…