Online Shop
Practical Brain-Focused Strategies for Working With Depression
Why Depression is a Form of Trauma
- Why depression is the ultimate avoidance strategy
- The four parts of the Depression Loop (and why it’s so hard to break)
- Why the brain reacts to depression the same way it reacts to trauma
- What an enlarged amygdala does to a depressed patient
- Shame: depression’s worst nightmare
- The neuroscience behind the shame-depression connection
- The crucial role of the vagus nerve in depression
How to Ignite the Depression-Battling Part of the Brain
- How to build the implicit memories that will take down depression
- One way to break up old emotional patterns to reduce reactivity
- “Tuning the Heart”: one skill that primes the brain against depression
- The one practice that can lead to a massive left prefrontal shift
- How to reduce the cellular inflammation that’s driven by depression
How to Create a Flexible Mind to Combat Depression
- The one “guilty pleasure” that powers strong neural connections
- How “play” affects the nervous system in a client who is depressed
- What happens to the self-critic in both playfulness and depression
- How to rewire the cognitive processing that gets shut down by depression
- How to activate the “Brain Fertilizer” protein that builds neuroplasticity
Elisha Goldstein, PhD is a clinical psychologist in private practice, co-founder of The Center for Mindful Living in LA, and author of Uncovering Happiness: Overcoming Depression with Mindfulness and Self-Compassion.
“I really liked being able to follow along with the transcripts as I listened…it was nice not to feel like I had to take notes. I really feel like I remember more when I both hear and see at the same time.”
Reviews
There are no reviews yet