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Healthy Brain, Healthy Body, Healthy Life
SKIP THE RUSH HOUR WELLNESS SERIES Presented by Rosalyn Baker, LMSW, Neurotherapist, Brain Wellness Coach, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, Certified Nutritional Consultant, internationally recognized speaker on brain health and nutrition. You won’t want to...
Can Neurofeedback Help Me with My Anxiety?
Anxiety is a human emotion that most of us would like to avoid. However, there are times when a person is “supposed to be anxious”, such driving in heavy traffic, getting a new hairstyle, going on an important job interview, or whitewater rafting. When someone...
Meditation and the Physical Body
Imagine you are in a quiet room. You are breathing gently – inhaling and exhaling slowly and deeply. You can feel your lungs expand as you inhale and on your exhale, your breath whirs at the back of your throat. The room is mostly dark. Your body is comfortable in...
To be Mindful is to Meditate
When we think of meditation, we often think of sitting on the floor with crossed legs or maybe a group of people in yoga poses on a mountain top. We tend to think of what it looks like and how unattainable it sounds. Free my mind from thoughts? Okay, sure. When we try...
Visual Meaning in the Moment
I was going through some boxes this past weekend, and I came across my collection of old cameras. Out of curiosity, I googled many of them to find the year that they were made. It turns out that in my collection, I have a camera from each decade starting with the...
Meditation and the Emotional Body
Could meditation ever replace antidepressants? This is the question of the year. A recent meta-analysis of 47 trials evaluating the effectiveness of mindfulness meditation on anxiety and depression showed that the effect size of meditation was identical to that of...
So, You Really Are Keeping Your Resolution…
Almost half of all adults make a New Year's resolution. But once the party hats and horns are put away, it's hard to muster up the ambition to follow through. It only takes one week and about 25% of resolution makers have already lost focus. According to University of...
Surviving the Affair — Ashley Madison, What to Do Now
I heard on the radio that there were more people in Grand Rapids who signed up for an account on the Ashley Madison website than voted in our last Mayoral election. That thought stuck with me. As a Licensed Psychologist who specializes in couples work in Grand Rapids...
Summer, a Good Time to Balance
The idea of summer brings many things to mind – backyards, bbqs, beaches, iced tea on the porch and days spent relaxing with family and friends. What summer doesn’t remind us of all that much is work, but, in a way, the play that summer involves is intimately...
Don’t Let Conflict Harm Your Relationship, Part 3
The truth about conflict avoidance is that it is not honest. In order to avoid conflict a person must essentially lie. They say “Yes” when they really mean “No.” They say “No” when they really mean “Yes.” They leave something out of what they are saying because they...