Cultivating Emotional Mindfulness: What, Why, and How…

March 13, 2014 by  
Filed under Cape Cod Institute, General

The ability to mindfully experience, regulate, and respond to one’s feelings is essential to mental health and well-being.  Yet problems managing emotion abound and play a central role in most psychiatric disorders.  Regardless of diagnosis, many people seeking treatment have some degree of difficulty being present with and making good use of their emotional experience. […]

Is Your Greatest Liability also Your Greatest Asset?

April 3, 2013 by  
Filed under Soapbox

What happens if you ask a child to look into an empty box and just pretend that something is there? In an interesting series of experiments, some children were asked to pretend that a puppy dog was in the box. As part of the experiment, the researcher was called out of the room, after which […]