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Self Care: The Whys and Hows
We’ve all heard the directions for the oxygen mask on the airplane, right? Before takeoff, the flight attendants remind you that you have to put your mask on before you help others with theirs. So it goes with the concept of self care: We have to help ourselves first, otherwise we can’t truly be of assistance to anyone else. But what happens when life happens? When parent guilt sets in because we feel we haven’t spent enough time with our kids? When we are experiencing grief, trauma, anxiety,...
The Unexpected Virtue of Anxiety
In a time where the whole world feels that nagging sense of worry and concern, we can take wisdom from those who have experience in this area: those with ongoing anxiety. Holly Schweitzer Dunn, LISW, has heard this three times already this week: "Having anxiety has helped me know what to do during all this craziness." There is a lot we can learn from people with anxiety. As one client said, "I've been preparing my whole life for this." People who manage their anxiety daily are...
In Praise of Public Health
As Landon and I walked early this morning the garbage collectors were already out and a police car drove by a few streets down. I had a wave of gratitude wash over me. How fortunate we are to live in a place where we don't even think about these things under typical circumstances. We know and trust our neighborhoods will be patrolled, our garbage will be picked up, our pets won't have rabies, our schools will be healthy places to send our children, our restaurants will be clean, our water...
Mindful Educators
Mindful Educators: Monday, June 15, 2020, 9 AM - 4:30 PM At Toledo’s Wildwood Metropark Ward Pavillion Mindful Educators is a day-long retreat experience designed to help teachers return to the spark of joy that drew them into their profession so they can return to the classroom ready in heart and spirit. We will apply the concepts of mindfulness to your role as educator, providing tools for the mind and body that will help nurture your passion through the stressful challenges of...
Screen addiction and kids
Mind Body Health Associates practices mental health and treatment with a strong awareness of the role of trauma, specifically how the developing body and brain absorb experiences that develop into patterns for surviving. These patterns may or may not later serve us positively in our daily living. For example, addiction behaviors can be "helpful" in numbing pain and avoiding the full impact of painful life experiences; however, addiction also disconnects us from loved ones, damages our bodies...
Curiosity and learning
When it comes to brain development, researchers and teachers are both finding that one of the best ways for learning to happen is through the process of inquiry. First, the brain enjoys curiosity, which creates a natural positive feedback loop to learning. With curiosity leading the way, the hippocampus lights up, paving the way toward a pleasure-reward circuit, attaching a hit of "feel good" dopamine. That positive sensation leads to a greater desire to return to the function of learning...
Asking good questions
The Nobel prize-winning Jewish physicist Isidore Rabi once explained that his mother taught him how to be a scientist. ‘Every other child would come back from school and be asked, “What did you learn today?” But my mother used to ask, instead, “Izzy, did you ask a good question today?”’ (Source) There is divided opinion on if a person can ask a “bad” question, but it’s unanimous that some questions are better at bringing about thoughtful or rich responses. If a person wants to get better at...