Category: My Blog
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Challenges, Changes, and Transition
Written for Headington Institute (see original article here) Introduction Living and working across international borders is often an exciting, enriching, and eye-opening experience. Engaging with cultures outside of our heritage culture challenges our norms, beliefs, and value systems. It exposes us to a myriad of new human experiences including new currency, languages, gestures, ways of…
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Healing from Trauma – Podcast
Last week, I listened to an episode of Dr. Mark Hyman’s Podcast, the Doctor’s Farmacy. Dr. Hyman is the Medical Director at Cleveland Clinic’s Center for Functional Medicine and I have found his podcast thought-provoking and informative if you want to learn about the connection between food, health and wellness. I’m sharing this specific episode…
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Consciousness, Quantum Physics and Psychotherapy
Reflections on a conference Consciousness, Quantum Physics and Psychotherapy at UCLA, December, 2015 Dr. Dan Siegel and Dr. Menas Kafatos started the conference by warning the group it would be a “mind-blowing” day. The conference titled Consciousness, Quantum Physics and Psychotherapy was the start of a dialogue aiming to bridge a gap between two seemingly unrelated topics:…
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Digital Social Etiquette
In my last post, I wrote about how digital utilization has infected our lives, both inter- and intra-personally. In this post, we will address digital etiquette and healthy digital use. More people are talking about being snubbed by their friends and loved ones. #Pphubbing is one example of the online discussion about how phone snubbing is affecting our…
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Digital Life and its Consequences: #iLife #phoneworlds
I just presented on the topic of Managing our Digital Lives (#ilife #phoneworlds) for a group of graduate students at a University of California campus. The topic was how our digital lives affect our social and physical health. The group consisted of mostly Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) students and I was tentative about…
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Smartphones versus… “dumb”phones?
This summer I spent several weeks in Mexico City teaching a class for an immersion program for psychology and MFT students. I packed light and only brought two gadgets with me – my laptop and iPhone 5s. My iPhone was tucked safely away in an inexpensive wallet case where I also carried a key card…
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Artificially intelligent therapists?
Telehealth has provided people with more options in how to give and receive mental health services. According to the American Psychological Association, telepsychology, in particular, has increased over 10% in the past ten years and has been successful in providing therapy to individuals who have difficulty accessing services otherwise. For example, telepsychology has been successful in treating US veteran and service members with PTSD who…
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Mental illness or auto-immune?
Spoiler alert for the book Brain on Fire – By Susannah Cahalan. The following is written for any reader but with special consideration to mental health professionals as the audience. Imagine that you are a healthy, high-functioning young adult who is successful in your career and relationships. You are bright, capable and confident with a promising future. Then…
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Freedom paradox: Chained by options
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg wears the same style shirt every day. Why? Because it saves him time and energy (Harding, 2014). Have you noticed that after shopping at a local neighborhood grocer, such as Trader Joe’s, walking into a supermarket, such as Safeway, feels overwhelming? It can take twice as long to get your shopping done,…
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Do less to do more
The paradox of our times is that we have access to everything but often feel like we are not doing enough, learning enough, or acquiring enough. Hours, or even minutes, are filled with activity but still, there is a sense of feeling unproductive. Baby boomer mobile phone users may experience this to a lesser degree than Gen…
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