Help Control Eating Disorders in Men with Mindfulness By John M. de Castro, Ph.D. “The practice of mindful eating can help a person create greater awareness of thoughts, emotions, feeling, and behaviors. While eating disorders effectively numb emotions, practicing mindfulness can help a person reflect on what they are feeling or experiencing prior […]
By John M. de Castro, Ph.D. “But whether or not you are predisposed to hedonic eating because of your genetics, everyone could benefit by becoming more mindful of what they eat, how much they eat, and when they eat.” – Tim Boyer Obesity has become an epidemic in the industrialized world. In […]
By John M. de Castro, Ph.D. “Mindless eating is looking at environmental cues and triggers around eating. Mindful eating is about awareness of internal and external cues that trigger eating.” – Megrette Fletcher Obesity is epidemic in the industrialized world. In the United States the incidence of obesity, defined as a Body Mass […]
“In all the years I’ve been a therapist, I’ve yet to meet one girl who likes her body.” – Mary Pipher Disordered eating is difficult to deal with particularly because eating is necessary and cannot be simply stopped as in smoking cessation or abstaining from drugs or alcohol. One must learn to eat appropriately not […]
“Cancer can take away all of my physical abilities. It cannot touch my mind, it cannot touch my heart, and it cannot touch my soul.” – Jim Valvano About one in every eight women will develop breast cancer during their lifetimes. About 40,000 women die from breast cancer every year in the US. Radiation […]
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is most commonly found in children, but for about half it persists into adulthood. It’s estimated that about 5% of the adult population has ADHD. Hence, this is a very large problem that can produce inattention, impulsivity, hyperactivity, and emotional issues, and reduce quality of life. The most common […]
Prevent Depression and Dementia-Related Behavioral Symptoms in Alzheimer’s Disease with Mindfulness By John M. de Castro, Ph.D. “Alzheimer’s is not about the past—the successes, the accolades, the accomplishments… Alzheimer’s is about the present and the struggle, the scrappy brawl, the fight to live with a disease. It’s being in the present, the relationships, […]
Mindfulness is Associated with Less Self-Talk and Greater Self-Compassion By John M. de Castro, Ph.D. “You’ve been criticising yourself for years and it hasn’t worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens.”— Louise L. Hay One of the more remarkable aspects of Western culture is that in general people do not […]
Improve Long-Covid Symptoms with Mindfulness By John M. de Castro, Ph.D. “Everything is created twice, first in the mind and then in reality.” ~Robin S. Sharma Mindfulness training has been shown to improve health and well-being in healthy individuals. They have also been found to be effective for a large array of medical and psychiatric conditions, either stand-alone or […]
Reduce Fatigue in Women with Cancer with Mindfulness By John M. de Castro, Ph.D. “The soul always knows what to do to heal itself. The challenge is to silence the mind.” – Caroline Myss Receiving a diagnosis of cancer has a huge impact on most people. Feelings of depression, anxiety, and fear […]