Improve Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) Symptoms In Veterans With Body Scan or Breath Following Meditation.

Improve Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) Symptoms In Veterans With Body Scan or Breath Following Meditation.   By John M. de Castro, Ph.D.   “Practicing mindfulness can help you to be more focused and aware of the present moment while also being more willing to experience the difficult emotions that sometimes come up after trauma.” – […]

Improve PTSD with Mindfulness

By John M. de Castro, Ph.D.   “Very often, depression can be about the past, ruminating over and over about losses or other terrible things that happened in the past. Anxiety, meanwhile, very often involves ruminating about terrible things that you’re afraid are going to happen in the future. But in the present, very often, […]

Control PTSD with Mindfulness

“It is as though some old part of yourself wakes up in you, terrified, useless in the life you have, its skills and habits destructive but intact, and what is left of the present you, the person you have become, wilts and shrivels in sadness or despair: the person you have become is only a […]

Improve Well-Being in Adults who Experienced Childhood Maltreatment with Mindfulness

Improve Well-Being in Adults who Experienced Childhood Maltreatment with Mindfulness   By John M. de Castro, Ph.D.   “mindfulness-based interventions can be beneficial for childhood maltreatment survivors to alleviate psychological symptoms including stress, anxiety, recurrent depression, substance use, and post-traumatic stress.” – Diane Joss   Childhood trauma can leave in its wake symptoms which can […]