The relationship with food: How can contextual therapies be useful?
In this video I bring a brief reflection on our relationship with food and how contextual therapies can help us think about the theme....
May 02, 2024
Current Themes
Observing loneliness
These days I felt alone, it was one of those days when I was so tired that the last thing I wanted was to socialize. My social battery was exhausted and I knew that calling someone to talk or leave would just make me more worn, and I couldn't be truly present with the person. So I decided to be alone. In this, I realized that even unintentionally, I have the impulse to try to fix loneliness “Isn't it good to call someone? So let's read a book, let's see a series. ” I noticed that I was constantly looking for something to distract me from that feeling. I realized, with some sadness, that I actively tried to be open to the experience of connecting with other people, but I was not open to feeling the loneliness that seemed unpleasant. So I set out to look at her. ...
April 23, 2024Mindfulness and DBT assumptions
Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) presents a series of assumptions that serve as foundations for their therapeutic approach. An assumption in this context refers to an idea accepted as true without the need for direct empirical validation, which can substantiate beliefs, practices and theories in various contexts to which DBT is applied. These assumptions are applied to both individual clinical practice and skill training and teams of professionals who employ DBT....
April 16, 2024Benefits of emotional regulation skills to have a full life
Today I bring a skill that I find super important to have a full life that is worth living that is radical acceptance. I hope you enjoy it and if you are interested, at the end of this post I put the link with more information about the training groups we have open at CEFI right now!...
April 10, 2024The emotional pain of a separation takes time to heal
When a relationship goes to its end, a process is beginning full of emotional pain, nostalgia, fear, uncertainty and sadness; Becoming aware that this special being, with whom plans had been made for the future, no longer follows in history, and modifying the routine and everyday habits-without involving that person-becomes difficult and almost impossible to support. /P>...
April 04, 2024Be vulnerable therapist
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March 28, 2024Changing your life one step at a time: a journey in Mindfulnes
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March 22, 2024Have you heard of ghosting?
In today's program, Dr. Mara Lins invites us to reflect on the phenomenon of 'Ghosting' and its implications on modern relationships. With its experience in psychology, Dr. Lins explores how 'ghosting', the act of abruptly ending a relationship by cutting all communication, can emotionally affect both who practices and who is the target of this practice....
March 22, 2024Do you know what triggers or emotional triggers are?
In today's program, Dr. Mara Lins invites us to reflect on 'triggers or emotional triggers' and their impact on our mental health. With its expertise in psychology, Dr. Mara Lins explores as past experiences, unresolved trauma and present situations can trigger intense and even harmful emotional responses. It invites us to better understand these triggers and to develop strategies to deal with them in a healthy way....
March 15, 2024What is ACT and who can benefit?
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) is an approach to understanding human functioning and psychological intervention. Presented by Steven C. Hayes, in 1982, he proposes a diagnostic trans model for the treatment of emotional suffering. That is, the approach seeks the identification and treatment of symptom patterns that are present in different psychiatric disorders, rather than treating each disorder in isolation. Thus, it allows a treatment focused on the individual needs of those seeking therapy....
March 14, 2024