Dance therapy, sometimes called “movement therapy,” is a holistic approach to psychiatric disorders, incorporating an array of medical, psychological, social, and spiritual concerns. Dance therapy, with its unique emphasis on nonverbal communication in assessment and treatment, is an innovative therapeutic approach to address the needs of people with depression, anxiety disorders, and eating disorders. The […]
Researchers Link Gratitude to Happiness
Have you ever noticed that some people seem to be able to maintain a positive attitude regardless of what’s happening to them? They appreciate the good times, but they also focus on the positive in the face of negative events. They tend to see the good in difficult people, the opportunity in a challenging situation, […]
Brain-Building Nutrition
In this new, updated edition of Brain-Building Nutrition: How Dietary Fats and Oils Affect Mental, Physical, and Emotional Intelligence, Michael A. Schmidt provides a host of practical dietary information and new, ground-breaking research to support his findings. A remarkable but little known fact is that the brain is nearly 60 percent fat. The book begins […]
Paleolithic Diet
The Paleolithic, or caveman diet, is a reversion to the foods eaten by humans prior to the advents of civilization, agriculture, and technology. Before those developments, the human diet during the Stone Age is thought to have consisted largely of lean red meat and vegetation. Some dietary experts also think that the original diet of […]