Faced with major surgery to replace a heart valve, William Matthews shares how the skills he learned in the mPEAK program with Pete Kirchmer played a central role in his recovery.
Mindfulness Building Resilience and Improving Care in Modern Medicine
In the Mindful Practice program, clinicians explore themes of burnout, uncertainty, errors, grief, attraction, and other dynamics of the clinical life, all held within a container of mindfulness.
Making Mindfulness Part of Your Life: Insights from an Adult with ADHD
UCSD Mindfulness-Based Professional Training Institute is now offering Mindfulness for ADHD: Training for Adults, Parents and Professionals. The training will take place August 7-10, 2014 at Earthrise Retreat Center in Petaluma, CA. The training is a retreat-version of the 8-week MAPs for ADHD that my colleagues and I originally developed at UCLA. The training is open to […]
Calming the Rush of Panic: A Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Guide to Freeing Yourself from Panic Attacks and Living a Vital Life
An exclusive excerpt from “calming the rush of panic” by Bob Stahl, PhD and Wendy Millstine, NC Frank’s Story Frank, an inventor, had come up with some new medical devices for use in lifesaving heart surgery. When he started a business to get these inventions in the hands of doctors, he had to deal with […]
Mindful Matters: Nourishing Our Wellbeing in Clinical Practice
There are lots of people, many of them healthcare professionals, who are serving this world by caring for others. Something within some of them is so completely synchronous with the desire to heal others that there is nothing in this life they would rather do. The fact that there are people so committed to helping […]
New brain study sheds light on how mindfulness reduces suffering associated with pain
Mindfulness has been shown in numerous studies to effectively attenuate pain, but a new study about to be published suggested that the way in which this reduction happens is much different than other, more typical coping mechanisms. These findings go to the heart of the difference between pain and suffering, by elucidating the different patterns […]
Mindfulness Interventions for Bipolar Depression
Bipolar disorder is a severe psychiatric illness characterized by episodes of depression as well as periods of elevated mood, known as mania. This condition, previously known as manic-depressive illness, causes considerable suffering and disability. Furthermore, bipolar depression is often difficult to treat and associated with anxiety symptoms and an increased risk of suicide. Thus, additional […]