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    How Mindfulness and Psychotherapy Benefit Each Other

    April 29, 2022

    Both psychotherapy and a mindfulness practice can be powerful and effective ways to help us live more fulfilling, useful, and healthy lives. Moreover, being in therapy while having a consistent mindfulness practice can compound the benefits of both processes. How do these two benefit one another? To define terms, mindfulness is nonjudgmental awareness of the […]

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    How Mindfulness and Psychotherapy Benefit Each Other

    April 29, 2022

    Both psychotherapy and a mindfulness practice can be powerful and effective ways to help us live more fulfilling, useful, and healthy lives. Moreover, being in therapy while having a consistent mindfulness practice can compound the benefits of both processes. How do these two benefit one another? To define terms, mindfulness is nonjudgmental awareness of the […]

    Filed Under: Acceptance, Emotion Regulation, General, Mental Health, Mindfulness, Personal Growth, Self-Compassion Tagged With: DBT, meditation, mindfulness, psychotherapy, self-compassion

    16 Facts and Tips About Radical Acceptance

    July 7, 2020

    When we think about the term “acceptance”, many people believe that this means either condoning a situation or behavior. Not so. Acceptance is not an excuse to be passive, to give up our rights in a matter, or resign ourselves to continued abuse. Quite the opposite. Acceptance is actually a proactive stance. Radical Acceptance, one […]

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    16 Facts and Tips About Radical Acceptance

    July 7, 2020

    When we think about the term “acceptance”, many people believe that this means either condoning a situation or behavior. Not so. Acceptance is not an excuse to be passive, to give up our rights in a matter, or resign ourselves to continued abuse. Quite the opposite. Acceptance is actually a proactive stance. Radical Acceptance, one […]

    Filed Under: Acceptance, Depression, Emotion Regulation, General, Mental Health, Mindfulness, Personal Growth Tagged With: acceptance, ADHD, behaviors, binge eating, Borderline Personality Disorder, DBT, depression, dialectical behavior therapy, expectations, Marsha Linehan, radical acceptance, urges, willingness

    How to Spot an Addiction and Get Help

    January 30, 2014

    There are few topics as loaded as addiction – especially if you’re talking with someone (perhaps yourself) who’s struggling with an unhealthy attachment to a substance (such as alcohol, drugs, or food) or behavior (gambling, sex, or shoplifting). We generally don’t like to feel as if we’re in the grips of a behavior that we […]

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    How to Spot an Addiction and Get Help

    January 30, 2014

    There are few topics as loaded as addiction – especially if you’re talking with someone (perhaps yourself) who’s struggling with an unhealthy attachment to a substance (such as alcohol, drugs, or food) or behavior (gambling, sex, or shoplifting). We generally don’t like to feel as if we’re in the grips of a behavior that we […]

    Filed Under: Addiction, General Tagged With: 12-Step programs, addiction, behavior, CBT, DBT, motivational interviewing

    15 Tips for Effective Communication

    August 30, 2013

    The manner in which we communicate with others has a major impact on the quality of our relationships. Yet we were rarely given a class in effective communication during our formal education, leaving us to wing it and learn by trial and error. Approaching someone to make a request can be scary. There’s no guarantee […]

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    15 Tips for Effective Communication

    August 30, 2013

    The manner in which we communicate with others has a major impact on the quality of our relationships. Yet we were rarely given a class in effective communication during our formal education, leaving us to wing it and learn by trial and error. Approaching someone to make a request can be scary. There’s no guarantee […]

    Filed Under: General, Relationships Tagged With: communication, DBT, DEAR MAN, dialectical behavior therapy

    Rachel Fintzy Woods, MA, LMFT

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