Mindfulness and Addiction
Mindfulness involves two key components: Awareness and acceptance. You may not be aware of...
Mindfulness for Relapse Prevention?
If you are like the millions of Americans that are struggling with behavior or substance misuses, addictions, compulsions, then you are also fighting a battle to regain control of your life. You are going through an ongoing battle, day by day to make a...
Mindfulness – Lost In Translation
I was thinking about travel and how when we go to another country, where we don't speak the language, we can get "Lost in Translation". There was a movie a few years ago, starring Bill Murray. While I liked the film, I googled the term and found this definition. "Of...
Formal and Informal Practices
Mindfulness is awareness, cultivated by paying attention in a sustained and particular way: on purpose, in the present moment, and nonjudgmentally. This post is about how to develop a formal and informal practice. More so, it's about understanding the differences....
Addiction relapse prevention, for better outcomes, by digitally connecting
The opioid epidemic killed more than 33,000 people in 2015. It has swept across the USA and is a national affliction that has hit cities on the West Coast to bedroom communities in the Northeast. In November 2016, the Surgeon General's report indicated...