As we approach the middle of year 2023, we are witnessing an unprecedented age of advancement in technology. Every day, we observe new ground-breaking advancements in fields such as artificial intelligence, biotechnology, and renewable energy, to name a f…
Drinking Anxiety, and how Hypnotherapy can help
Does anyone out there suffer from this?*
If so, you will know it is debilitating, depressing and can make you feel really bad about yourself as you internally beat yourself up over how you may have behaved,…
I was in M&S on Tuesday looking around the lingerie section and came across a poster with a lady advertising knickers. I was presently surprised that the model had stretch marks. Well done M&S for having ‘normal’ people on your advertising campaig…
It is a concern that the most vital institution of mankind has such little respect, support, and knowledge regarding marriage. People view it as something akin to living together as they discount the importance of the holy bonds, the commitment, and sacri…
After a lifetime of mistakes, mishaps, and missed deadlines, is it any wonder that adults with ADHD suffer dangerously low self-esteem and perpetually negative thoughts? Cognitive behavioral therapy is a short-term, goal-oriented form of psychotherapy tha…
Two co-authors of a new landmark paper discuss their findings that MBCT may be comparable to antidepressants in treating recurrent depression.
The largest meta-analysis to date of randomized controlled trials of mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT)…
It would seem that among the readers of Collective Evolution there is a very clear sense that “something is off” that germinated at an early age. This prompted a search amid dissatisfaction with conventional belief systems.
My good friend Michael Jeffrey…
The most interesting things to be learned from a recent clinical trial of mindfulness-based stress reduction to cognitive behavior therapy for chronic back pain are not what the authors intend.
Noticing that some key information is missing from the study…
People with chronic insomnia should try cognitive behavioral therapy before medications, suggests a prominent group of U.S. doctors.
While the American College of Physicians (ACP) can’t say cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) outperforms medications for c…
I wasn’t always a good learner. I thought learning was all about the hours you put in. Then I discovered something that changed my life.
The famous Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman understood the difference between “knowing something” and “k…
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is now the most prevalent psychiatric illness of young people in America, affecting 11 percent of them at some point between the ages of 4 and 17. The rates of both diagnosis and treatment have increased so …
Everybody loves cognitive behavioural therapy. It’s the no-nonsense, quick and relatively cheap approach to mental suffering – with none of that Freudian bollocks, and plenty of scientific backing. So it was unsettling to learn, from a paper in the journa…