How To Overcome Your Nightmares – Rescript Them Anyone can have nightmares for any reason. But some things that can cause nightmares are anxiety, depression, medications, pain and even eating too soon before you go to bed. Nightmares are common in people who have had a traumatic experience. In these cases, the nightmares tend to […]
How Stress Affects Your Brain
In this video I discuss why healthy food helps your brain. It has to do with oxidative stress. Oxidative stress occurs when you get free radical formation that causes tissue damage.
How To Challenge Self Defeating Thoughts
This is a follow up to a previous video on identifying your self-defeating thoughts. You can watch that video here: Challenging your thoughts is called cognitive restructuring and is a technique used in cognitive behavior therapy. You can do this on your own, but of course it works better when you have a therapist guiding […]
5 Ways To Diffuse Your Anger
To better understand how to stop before you lose control, let’s look at the cycle of anger. First you have a triggering event. This would be something like feeling disrespected or used or having someone cut you off in traffic. This is followed by negative thoughts. These are automatic thoughts that pop into your mind […]
How To Stop Ruminating
The term ruminate means to run a thought over and over in your mind. This is the figurative definition. The literal definition refers to cows regurgitating their food to chew it over and over. Rumination is not a diagnosis all to itself, we see it in depression and anxiety. Rumination causes people to get stuck […]
The Depression Diet
Did you know that a healthy diet is associated with an approximately 30% reduction in the risk for depression and a 40% improvement in your thinking? There’s been a growing body of research showing an association between diet, inflammation and depression. Recently two Australian studies show that eating a Mediterranean style diet actually improved depression symptoms. […]