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Coloring Book Day
3 Free Coloring Sheets
Bust out your crayons and colored pencils in celebration of National Coloring Book Day!
The Psychology of Gratitude
FREE Three Good Things Worksheet
The practice of gratitude is believed to impact our brain on structural and chemical level. Practice Gratitude with your clients using this FREE Three Good Things Worksheet.
Race to Right Here Right Now
Mindfulness as a key to lasting happiness
Practice mindfulness — download three favorite (and FREE) mindfulness techniques developed especially for teens.
Use Your Pause Button: Stop, Drop, and Breathe
A Self-Regulation Strategy for Parents
If you want to experience a happier family life, with a lot less drama and a lot more love, then check out this FREE Exercise and Worksheet.
Shaping the Conversations of Love: 2 Simple Techniques for Working with Distressed Couples
In this free, short video, Dr. Sue Johnson will show you two simple EFT techniques to help partners have conversations that redefine a distressed relationship and ensure you're shaping a more secure bond.
Letting Go of Anger
A simple skill to successfully manage teen anger
Float on a Cloud is a popular and highly effective tool to manage not only a teen's anger, but also those underlying, super-strong feelings felt immediately before anger such as: frustration, fear, hurt, failure, humiliation, shame, sadness, rejection, distrust, jealousy, inadequacy, and insecurity. Just follow these 4 simple steps...
5 Strategies for Forging Healthy Relationships with Others (and Yourself)
How to Make Connections for a Truly Happy Life after 50
By Andrea Brandt - In this third part of a three-part series adapted from the upcoming book Mindful Aging: Embracing Your Life after 50 to Find Fulfillment, Purpose, and Joy, author and clinician Andrea Brandt looks at how a more intentional relationship with ourselves can lead to more satisfying relationships with others.
Tips for Living the Life You Want
Think Your Greatest Success is Out of Reach? Think Again
By Andrea Brandt - In this second part of a three-part series adapted from the upcoming book Mindful Aging: Embracing Your Life after 50 to Find Fulfillment, Purpose, and Joy, author and clinician Andrea Brandt looks at how to increase awareness of what brings you joy.
Creating a Mindset to Have the Best Years Yet
What Truly Happy People Have in Common
By Andrea Brandt - In this first of a three-part series adapted from the upcoming book Mindful Aging: Embracing Your Life after 50 to Find Fulfillment, Purpose, and Joy, author and clinician Andrea Brandt looks at how to nurture realistic positivity past 50.
Healing, Happiness, Transformation: A 4-Day Yoga and Meditation Retreat
A journey into the serenity of the inner self
In September 2016, Сòòò½ÊÓƵ held our first ever 4-Day Yoga and Meditation Retreat for Mental Health Professionals. Mary NurrieStearns, MSW, LCSW, RYT, lead attendees through a balanced schedule of meditation, clinical teachings and group discussion, yoga, mindful eating, walking meditation, noble silence and deep rest. The following is Mary's reflection of her experiences with the retreat...