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The Mindfulness and Acceptance Workbook for Anxiety: A Guide to Breaking Free from Anxiety, Phobias, and Worry Using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy

Anna — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 11:25:25 +0000

The Mindfulness and Acceptance Workbook for Anxiety: A Guide to Breaking Free from Anxiety, Phobias, and Worry Using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy

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Anxiety happens. It’s not a choice. And attempts to manage your thoughts or get rid of worry, fear, and panic can leave you feeling frustrated and powerless. But you can take back your life from anxiety without controlling anxious thoughts and feelings. You can stop avoiding anxiety and start showing up to your life. The Mindfulness & Acceptance Workbook for Anxiety will get you started, using a revolutionary new approach called acceptance and commitment therapy, or ACT.

The book has one purpose: to help you live better, more fully, more richly. Your life is calling on you to make that choice, and the skills in this workbook can help you make it happen. Find out how your mind can trap you, keeping you stuck and struggling in anxiety and fear. Learn to nurture your capacity for acceptance, mindfulness, kindness, and compassion. Use these qualities to shift your focus away from anxiety and onto what you really want your life to be about. As you do, your life will get bigger as your anxious suffering gets smaller. No matter what kind of anxiety problem you’re struggling with, this workbook can guide you toward a more vibrant and purposeful life. Includes a CD with bonus worksheets, self-assessments, and guided mindfulness meditations.

This book presents a framework to orient you toward the rest of your life. You will be taken on a journey. Go. To uncouple from your anxious reactions to life, you will need to alter your consciousness. No small task! It takes a student’s mind and a willingness to be coached. Fortunately, you will find these authors to be trustworthy and competent guides.
-Reid Wilson, Ph.D., author of Don’t Panic

…Highly recommended for all those struggling with worry, anxiety, and fear.
-David H. Barlow, Ph.D., professor of psychology and psychiatry at Boston University and author of Anxiety and Its Disorders

…a ‘must-read’ for anyone encountering anxiety as a barrier to a leading a fuller life.
-Zindel Segal, Ph.D., Morgan Firestone Chair in Psychotherapy at the University of Toronto and author of The Mindful Way Through Depression

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Eating Disorder Foundation of Orange County Begins Providing Free Services to Local Community

Anna — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 09:01:53 +0000

Eating Disorder Foundation of Orange County Begins Providing Free Services to Local Community

Dana Point, CA (PRWEB) May 5, 2005

The Eating Disorder Foundation of Orange County (EDFOC), a newly launched non-profit organization, has started offering free services to Orange County residents who recognize the need for prevention and early detection of eating disorders in the Orange County, California area.

The newly launched non-profit provides free presentations to local schools, educators, parents, and athletic organizations, particularly gymnastics, that focus on relating accurate eating disorder information to our community. The Foundation’s goal is to bring attention to the prevention of eating disorders through educating young kids, teachers and parents starting in elementary school. The Foundation has developed a much needed curriculum that will become a part of education at every level. The Foundation also provides free public speakers for community and private events. In addition, EDFOC provides free and confidential eating disorder assessments, workshops and support groups for both adolescents and their families.

According to Nicole Bourquin, Founder and Executive Director, “We have to start providing real education about eating disorders to our kids starting in elementary school. What we’re seeing is that it’s too late for prevention efforts in high school or middle school; the seeds of an eating disorder are sown much earlier as shown in recent research.”

Bourquin comments on the lack of attention we give to eating disorder awareness,” “Our biggest challenge here in Orange County is trying to convince parents and educators in our community that we have a serious problem and it’s only getting worse.”

Bourquin further stated, “It’s frustrating to have to constantly convince parents and educators that the problem of eating disorders in young people is real and can cause havoc in both the child and the child’s family. The mission of the Eating Disorder Foundation of Orange County is to bring this serious issue into the spotlight.”

About Nicole Bourquin

Nicole Bourquin is a local therapist in South Orange County. She has a Master’s degree in Counseling, with a focus in health promotion, numerous continuation classes in eating disorder education and treatment, teen and adolescent studies, child abuse, eating disorders in the gymnastics, dancing and modeling fields, domestic violence, substance abuse, and trauma response. She is presently finishing the required hours needed to sit for the State of California’s Board of Behavioral Sciences’ MFT license. Nicole provides counseling through Insight Counseling, a non-profit counseling center located in Lake Forest, CA. She specializes in working with adolescents and their families.

About Eating Disorder Foundation of Orange County

EDFOC was launched January 1st, 2005 and founded by local mental health practitioners, educators, and parents who recognize that eating disorders represent a serious threat to the health and mental well-being of young people. For more information on upcoming workshops or presentations, call Nicole at the Eating Disorder Foundation of Orange County at (800) 342-9403.

Contact:

Nicole Bourquin

32545 B Golden Lantern, Suite 148

Dana Point, CA 92629

Telephone: (800) 342-9403

Fax: (949) 488-2418

http://www.edfoc.org

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Social Anxiety Disorder: Free Treatment @ Stanford University

Anna — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 01:07:12 +0000

Free Treatment for Social Anxiety Disorder and Stanford University in the Bay Area, California, USA waldron.stanford.edu [650-723-5977] caan@psych.stanford.edu

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Weight Down Workshop: Set Free from Eating Disorders

Anna — Wed, 26 May 2010 06:02:32 +0000

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Free yourself From the Agony of Anxiety Disorder Now With Effective Treatment

Anna — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 01:07:33 +0000

Fear is a normal and natural emotional reaction to a threatening condition. Feelings of nervousness, anxiety and discomfort only affects each of us at some stage of life or another, whether at a conference speech, an interview, examination or at work. Often, experience most of us would be afraid to adjust the stressful or tense situation, and this feeling will eventually fade away in due time. However, if the state of fear of an excessive, intensive and long period, which reached the ordinary business concerns, it implies a potential mental state as a general anxiety disorder. As anxiety disorder is a treatable disease, one should try to appropriate treatments and medications to control and cure condition and should not see it as a weakness or instability of character. Recovery is a possibility if the combination is sought from appropriate treatments. With a large number are drug treatments available for the different anxiety disorders, the doctors and psychiatrists recommend best able to diagnose your anxiety symptoms and get you started on the most appropriate treatment for your particular medical condition. On a personal note, it is important that the fact that if the effectiveness of a treatment course short of your expectations, there is a different combination of treatments, the best control and relieve your anxiety permanently would welcome it. From the wide selection of available means and possibilities of treatment, you should assess the suitability of alternatives and their impact to the products or methods that reflect best to control your condition. Here, too, remember that it is discussing always best and that you consult with your doctor or mental health specialists to better understand the nature of these funds and to determine if the treatment is best selections fit for the treatment of your anxiety and panic disorders are. Traditionally, psychotherapy and medications were most commonly used prescriptive and more recently, complementary and alternative medicine popular for its natural healing power won. Although the efficacy of alternative medicines in treating anxiety disorders are not fully understood, but many studies have shed some lights on their use for such purposes. Conventional treatment of anxiety disorders is none other than the traditional prescription of drugs to reduce the chemical substances in the body, leading to constant anxiety. These drugs, of which we alleviate some of the symptoms of anxiety quickly with few side effects are also frequently used to treat depression. Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), monoamine oxidase inhibitors are (MAO) inhibitors and beta blockers few examples of such drugs. In general, not only enough drugs and the treatment may to some forms of psychotherapy is to be included simultaneously. The main reason is that while drugs can treat the patients better with anxiety disorders and relieve the negative effects of them felt, long-term use can lead to high dependence on these drugs. Introduction of the earlier techniques of acupuncture and ayurveda in controlling anxiety disorders has been to gradually accepted as an alternative treatment option for anxiety. These treatments can help to comfort and ease tension and negative feeling again to relieve by stimulating internal energy flows, that the imbalance of the voltage build-up in certain organs. They use essential oils obtained from flowers, herbs and plants and sterilized acupuncture needles to stimulate the effect of relaxation and energy by scent. Another alternative is to treat anxiety gemstone therapy. Here believed that their properties, gemstones can correct imbalances in your body. Each gemstone that is used in this treatment has healing properties and colors. The right balance can be achieved by a gemstone at a specific place on your body. The choice of alternative therapies and anxiety management techniques are not only numerous, they can be very different in nature, which extends from exposure therapy, relaxation techniques and supplements, self-esteem therapy, cognitive therapy of anxiety education, attention training, nutrition, exercise, assertion, and so on. As long as the core of fear in a structured and supportive treatment course fear can be addressed, complete recovery is a certainty.

Regaining Your Self: Breaking Free From the Eating Disorder Identity: A Bold New Approach

Anna — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 13:08:31 +0000

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Free Weight Loss Tips: 7 Really Bad Ways to Lose Weight

Anna — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 01:08:17 +0000

Some people are on a never-ending quest to find quick ways to lose weight. Many people jump from one method to another trying to find that magic bullet cure to dropping pounds the easiest and fastest way possible. The things they are willing to put their bodies through, while trying to achieve this goal, goes from mildly amusing to down right scary.

Maybe you’ve tried some of these methods yourself. Heaven knows there’s no shortage of advertisements, websites and product manufacturers encouraging you to try the latest, greatest fat loss miracle. Companies, and some individuals, make millions of dollars promoting these schemes to the unwary. The truth is, it would be a miracle if anyone was able to lose weight and keep it off permanently without either, wasting their money, or risking their health with these products and schemes.

Here’s a list of the worst ways you can choose to lose weight.

Starvation – This seems like one of the simplest ways to get weight to come off. I mean, not eating means you’re not ingesting any calories or fat, right? True. It also means that you’re literally starving your body of much needed nutrients it needs in order to function properly.

Most people who try to go the starvation route quickly find out that it’s hard to maintain for more than a few days. Not eating enough can lead to mental fogginess, feeling cranky and moody, and loss of energy. Who can get everything they need to do in the day done when they feel like this?

Plus, the worst part is that by denying your body the calories it needs, it will actually slow down your metabolism. You know what that means, right? Your body will not be able to burn fat efficiently. Instead, it will hold onto every single calorie you put into your body. Know why?

Because you’re starving it!

Our bodies are smarter than we think. They’re like machines. When your body gets less fuel than it’s used to, it knows enough to slow everything down and reserve its resources. When you finally

do get hungry and pig out, those calories will go straight to fat storage. Guess what? You may actually cause yourself to gain more weight by starving yourself.

Fad Diets – There’s an endless array of fad diets that instruct you to eat all kinds of things. Usually you have to eat the same food items, again and again, anywhere from 7

days to a whole month. For those who do manage to make it through a fad diet, their joy of dropping some water weight will be short lived.

Again, you can’t really lose enough weight and keep it off permanently by drinking lemonade, eating cabbage soup, diet cookies, ice cream, chocolate, popcorn, etc. While most fad diets do include healthy foods, they are way too strict and mundane to stick with for very long. Soon, you’ll

be craving your old comfort food favorites again. That is, until the next fad diet comes along.

Throwing Up – Okay, for most people, this is an uncomfortable idea and they won’t even try it. For others, it’s very attractive. They reason that you can eat anything you like, in any kinds of quantities, because it’s only temporary. Once you’ve pigged out, you go to the bathroom, stick your finger down your throat and up comes everything.

This temporary food enjoyment, followed by throwing up, can lead to serious health problems. Bulimia is a huge risk factor when you choose this road to weight loss. As we have seen too many times, people who use this method can develop serious issues with food and body image. This ultimately leads to life threatening consequences. Hey, you wanna lose weight, not end up a skinny basket case. Just being honest.

Pill Popping – Taking diet pills is one of the most popular ways people choose to lose weight. It’s also one of the most futile methods. If taking diet pills really worked well for all those who take them, then why do we see increasing numbers of obese people?

Diet pills have been around for decades, so you’d think that they would have a reputation for being so effective that most people would be slim and trim. Yet, here we are – fatter than ever.

Many people, who struggle with their weight, just don’t want to face the idea that it may take some actual work to drop those pounds. Instead, they desperately look for quick fixes, and there’s no quicker fix than popping a diet pill. Oh, and the promises the manufacturers make, are so over the top that it’s not any wonder they’re stuffing their pockets with cash. I mean, who wouldn’t want to drop all of their belly fat in 30 days flat – without lifting a finger or changing their eating habits?

Some diet pills are harmless herbal remedies that don’t really do much of anything. While others contain ingredients that have a detrimental effect on the body. There have been some sad news stories about people who’ve sustained permanent liver and kidney damage from taking a weight loss supplement. Others, unfortunately, have lost their life.

If you’re someone who is prone to taking diet pills, you need to stop and re-evaluate how effective they really are in helping you to lose weight. And, if they are that effective, why do you feel the need to keep taking them? Did you actually gain all that weight back?

Hmmm.

HCG Injections – Some people have resorted to taking hormone injections to lose weight. While our bodies naturally contain hormones, introducing any type of hormonal drugs into your body is really risky. While HCG is often used to help infertile women get pregnant, it is considered a controversial method in weight loss.

When you’re dealing with hormones, there’s gonna be side effects. Here are some of the documented side effects from taking HCG for long periods.

Abnormal breast enlargement (men), multiple birth pregnancies (women), tiredness, nausea, mood changes, acne, excessive fluid retention, sore throat, hair loss, prostate hypertrophy (men), unknown side effects from using counterfeit HCG.

Laxatives – The purpose of laxatives is to help loosen up the bowels if you’re constipated. That’s it. There is no evidence that taking laxatives to lose weight does anything positive to help the body shed fat. The thing is, as soon as you’ve ingested the food, your body goes into action to absorb calories. Taking a laxative after eating is already too late to prevent calories from going where they wish to go.

Those who have gone down this road often regret it, because laxatives can make you feel and look really ill. You can even become addicted to laxatives and end up being hospitalized. The damage you can cause your organs will not be worth all the pain and trouble.

Gimmicks – There are all types of silly products out there that claim they can help you melt away the fat in just minutes per day. Wrap yourself in a sweat suit or place a gyrating, electric belt around your waist. These are gimmicks that will just waste your time and money.

If you’re really serious about your health, there are smart ways to lose weight that don’t involve putting your body, and long-term well being, at risk. Losing weight takes real commitment, and yes – time. Many people who try things on the bad list just don’t want to hear this. They want to take shortcuts.

Well, again, if these shortcuts really worked, there wouldn’t be so many of these same people constantly trying to lose weight.

Watch Last Weeks 90210 Episode Free

Anna — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 23:09:38 +0000

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Amazing Anxiety Disorder Phobia Relief Reveals The Truth – Live Free From Anxiety

Anna — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 09:13:46 +0000

Anxiety disorder is capable of destroying your life if not treated immediately. Luckily it is possible to live free from anxiety for the remainder of your life.
Have you ever felt anxious about something for any reason? Or, feeling anxious or worried in the times of stressful situations? It is ok to feel what you feel as long as you have rational reasons to validate your feelings.
Anxiety is a normal response to any stressful event and it helps you deal with that situation. But, when anxiety becomes too much that it can affect your day to day activities and peace of mind, it becomes an anxiety disorder.
Anxiety disorder is excessive anxiety and worry about events or activities, which occurs most often than not in most days for at least six months. A person who has anxiety disorder finds it difficult to control the feelings of worry and fear.
The anxiety, worry, or the physical symptoms of anxiety disorder can cause considerable suffering or harm on the important areas of daily life activities. Some of the common types of anxiety disorders include separation anxiety, social anxiety or phobia, selective mutism, obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), posttraumatic stress disorder (PSTD), panic disorder, agoraphobia, generalized anxiety disorder, and specific phobia.
Each of these anxiety disorders has different symptoms, but the entire symptoms revolve around excessive, unreasonable fear and dread.
Separation anxiety is defined as developmentally improper and excessive anxiety relating to separation from home or to someone you are so attached with. Social anxiety or phobia is generally understood as extreme fear in the face of social interaction.
Selective mutism is the consistent failure to speak in specific social situations where you are expected to render speech. OCD is an illness wherein you have recurrent and unwanted urge to do something to relieve your discomfort. PST is an incapacitating condition that follows a terrifying event (persistent terrifying thoughts).
Panic disorder is categorized as recurrent brief episodes of intense fear that are accompanied by many physical symptoms, like heart palpitations and dizziness, even without external threat. Agoraphobia is defined as an incapacitating fear of open spaces, resulting to avoidance of crowds, and open public places.
General anxiety disorder is described by diffuse feelings of apprehensions with physiological symptoms. Specific phobia is a feeling of intense, irrational fears towards certain things, like closed-in places, heights, water, etc.
If you think you have an anxiety disorder, the first person you should see is your family doctor. A physician can determine whether the symptoms that bother you are due either to anxiety disorder or other medical condition, or both.
If indeed you are diagnosed to have anxiety disorder, the next step you should do is definitely see a mental health professional whom you are comfortable talking with.
Clearly, in order for you to be treated for this condition, you and your doctor should work together as a team and make a plan to cure you from anxiety disorder. Don’t let this condition ruin your mood, activities, or your life in general.
Get immediate treatment the soonest possible time once you think that you might have an anxiety disorder. The sooner you get the treatment, the sooner you will feel better and be able to enjoy life to the full.