The Psychology of Taking a Knee
The backlash against protests by Colin Kaepernick and other athletes raises scientific questions about body language, power, and group dynamics.
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The backlash against protests by Colin Kaepernick and other athletes raises scientific questions about body language, power, and group dynamics.
The Psychology of Taking a Knee Read More »
Dan Gilbert, author of Stumbling on Happiness, challenges the idea that we’ll be miserable if we don’t get what we want. Our “psychological immune system” lets us feel truly happy even when things don’t go as planned.
The surprising science of happiness Read More »
Experience Camps provides grieving children a safe space to access their emotions, while still having fun with others who understand what they’re going through.View article
Camp brings healing to kids dealing with loss Read More »
“Psychotherapy heals when both therapist and client are equally invested in the relationship…the goal – to inhabit one’s body and relationships in new ways.” For the past 50 years, psychotherapy has taken a back seat to biomedical psychiatry, largely due to reliance on medications for the treatment of mental disorders. Yet clinical evidence increasingly points
Trauma-informed psychotherapy puts the body – and love – back in mental healthcare Read More »
Are you your own worst critic, without even realizing it? When we fail and mess up in our lives (perhaps a project at work goes wrong or a relationship ends), our moods are at risk of heading towards two extremes: self-pity on the one hand, where it is exclusively everyone else’s fault and we bathe
Before we are born. Science writer Annie Murphy Paul talks through new research that shows how much we learn in the womb — from the lilt of our native language to our soon-to-be-favorite foods.
What babies learn before they’re born Read More »
Feeling loved, cared for, and understood by another is what helps us to feel connected to ourselves and the world around us. Our ability to deepen our sense of connectedness and belonging is done through vulnerability. Vulnerability is hard, and it is worth it beyond measure. Watch Brene Brown’s great TED Talk
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Sunrise on the plains of the Masai Mara, Kenya. “The bigness of the world is redemption…To dig deeper into the self, to go underground, is sometimes necessary, but so is the other route of getting out of yourself, into the larger world, into the openness in which you need not clutch your story and your
September 2017 Newsletter Read More »
Lately, I’ve been more weighed down by certain stresses in my own life, as well as a bit worn down by the deluge of daily political calamities streaming through my newsfeed about our country at large.
April 2017 Newsletter Read More »
Join Nim Tottenham, Ph.D. for a night of wine, cheese, and stimulating conversation for you and pizza, movie, and childcare for your kids. Come and hear about the latest research in attachment, neuroscience, and brain development, and have an opportunity to ask questions and get information from a world class researcher and expert in the
“Students interact with teachers close to 30 hours a week. Training teachers in understanding trauma and interventions for individual students supports the developments of a strong attachment between student and teacher that enables children to feel safe and secure at school. ” – Leah How Trauma-Informed Teaching Builds A Sense of Safety And Care
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Computers seem to know it all. They can add faster, but 2+2 still equals 4. They can make dinner reservations and book flights, but they can’t make them enjoyable. Computers can do so many things to make life easy, but they can’t carry on a stimulation conversation. “From Apple’s Siri to Honda’s robot Asimo,
Humans Vs. Technology Read More »