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By  Dr. Barbara Bachmeier Balancing the Past with NowRadical acceptance is an idea, mindset, and skill taught in Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), a. It is often introduced as part of a full DBT program and along with or as part of mindfulness.I have been teaching these strategies to my own patients in groups and in individual […]

Dollar Photo Club  By Mark Bertin, M.D. Baseball’s all fun and games and bonding together—except when it isn’t. Following up a previous blog in which I wrote about wisdom found in the movie Bull Durham, it’s clear I’m a New Yorker recovering from a brutal winter. Spring baseball is on my mind. And with baseball and children

Author Karen Maezen Miller offers quick and practical guidelines for maintaining a mindfulness practice throughout your day.Photo © flickr.com/i eated a cookie  Practice in plain sight. Place your meditation cushion in a conspicuous place in your home, such as on your bedroom floor. As you pass by, let it invite you to practice meditation daily. Even five

Tristan Gorrindo, child and adolescent psychiatrist at Massachusetts General Hospital, on getting teenagers to pause online.Illustration by Gavin Potenza  How many friends do you have on Facebook? For teenagers who use the social media site, the median count is about 300, according to Teens, Social Media, and Privacy, a Pew Center report released last spring. That’s

                                                © iStockPhoto.com/KevinRuss As parents, we experience stress at various times during the day—whether during a hectic morning routine, a hurried bedtime ritual, or a silent drive to school. But mindfulness can help in

Four steps to stop being so hard on ourselves.  By Tara Brach When I was in college, I went off to the mountains for a weekend of hiking with an older, wiser friend of twenty-two. After setting up our tent, we sat by a stream, watching the water swirl around rocks, talking about our lives. At

We are forgetful creatures. In a past article I had expressed my opinion on how this trait is the biggest malaise of humanity for different reasons I will not explore here. Suffice to say that all of our biggest mistakes, whether on a personal or collective level, are born out of forgetting our life lessons rather than

Whether we’re starting a new project or trying to meditate, we can experience resistance, says Elisha Goldstein. But there are ways we can train the brain to get out of the resistance loop.  We all experience resistance everyday when we’re trying to do something that matters. Whether you want to sit and meditate, work on a

Technology TEDx Teens, tweens and kids are often referred to as “digital natives.” Having grown up with the Internet, smartphones and tablets, they’re often extraordinarily adept at interacting with digital technology. But Mitch Resnick, who spoke at TEDxBeaconStreet, is skeptical of this descriptor. Sure, young people can text and chat and play games, he says, “but that