Our Practice
Sasha Ginsburg and Erin Lotz were born and raised in Los Angeles. They met working together in 2010 as therapists at Cedars Sinai Medical Center, teaching Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) and using it to treat patients struggling with many different diagnoses. After sometime, they discovered that was a huge gap in the field of Mental Health and they decided to launch a clinic in West Los Angeles dedicated to teaching DBT individually and in group settings.
RADICAL ACCEPTANCE
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 ...
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Mindfulness, Little League, and Parenting
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. ...
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8 Mindful Practices for Parents
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 ...
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W.A.I.T. a Minute
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 ...
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Parenting Happily
© 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. ...
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Feeling Overwhelmed? Remember “RAIN”
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, ...
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5 Encouraging Things About Us We Tend to Forget
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 ...
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The Neuroscience of Resistance and How to Overcome It!
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 ...
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10 places where anyone can learn to code
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 ...
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https://youtu.be/kk7IBwuhXWM Mindfulness: Youth Voices By KeltyMentalHealth Mindfulness Mindfulness means “paying attention in a particular way: On purpose, in the present moment, and without judgment” (Jon Kabat-Zinn). Much of our stress, pain, and suffering comes from being pulled away from the present moment. We are distracted with regrets about the past, worries about ...
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