Emotions Anonymous (EA) is a twelve-step organization (similar to Alcoholics Anonymous) that helps people who are experiencing problems or difficulties involving depression, anger, broken or strained relationships, grief, anxiety, low self-esteem, panic, abnormal fears, resentment, jealousy, guilt, despair, fatigue, tension, boredom, loneliness, withdrawal, obsessive and negative thinking, worry, compulsive behavior and other emotional issues. The… Read More »
Emotional Eating: What is it? How does it apply to you? How do we overcome it? “April is Emotional Overeating Awareness Month,” proclaims Dr. Denise Lamothe, an emotional eating expert, clinical psychologist, speaker, and author. “Emotional eating is eating for reasons other than hunger,” says Jane Jakubczak, a registered dietitian at the University of Maryland.… Read More »
Emotional Fitness is a weekly newspaper column that appears in more than two hundred newspapers. Its author, Barton Goldsmith, has more than twenty years of experience as a therapist and has been named one of the country’s top relationship experts by Cosmopolitan magazine. He also hosts a weekly radio show on KCLU/NPR, broadcast in the… Read More »
Peter Dreier, Professor of Politics at Occidental College, focuses on the human costs of economic downturns in an article published March 10 at HuffingtonPost.com. Drier points to Dr. Harvey Brenner, a sociologist and public health expert at Johns Hopkins University, who has calculated that for every 1% increase in the unemployment rate (1.5 million people),… Read More »
Our January 3 blog entry, “The Road to Resilience” was inspired by a seven page brochure from the American Psychological Association and the Discovery Health Channel that includes a series of questions to ask yourself and describes ten ways to build resilience. An article published this week by McClatchy (the third-largest newspaper company in the… Read More »
In January, we posted an item, “Linking Emotional and Physical Health.” On March 4, 2009, the University of Kansas (KU) announced that the results of a joint study with the Gallup World Poll into the connection between emotions and health were to be presented that day at the annual meeting of the American Psychosomatic Society.… Read More »
In December, in an entry titled, “The Look On Your Face,” we described a program designed to help save children from lifelong emotional problems by helping youngsters ages 3 to 5 to read facial expressions. Children with autism have difficulty recognizing emotions. The number of children diagnosed with autism has increased nearly tenfold in the… Read More »
Raphael Cushnir is the author of, “The One Thing Holding You Back: Unleashing the Power of Emotional Connection.” This new book describes how you can incorporate emotions into your daily life and offers ways to identify and release specific emotions that have been blocking your success and well being. On the Media Clips page of… Read More »
Dr. Judith Orloff, an Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at UCLA, has written a new book, “Emotional Freedom: Liberate Yourself From Negative Emotions and Transform Your Life.” She describes the book as “a guide to staying brave and positive during stressful times.” Dr. Orloff says, “Emotional freedom is being able to transform negative emotions into… Read More »
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