Newsletter – April 2021

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Interesting Research:

• The Good Behavior Game: A Best Practice Candidate as a Universal Behavioral Vaccine
• Milkshakes & The Mind Body Connection: Mindset Meaningfully Affects Physiological Responses to Food
• Positive Emotions Predict Living Longer: Findings from a Study of Nuns
• The Science of Holding Hands (and Why It’s Good For You)
• Mindset Matters: Exercise and the Placebo Effect

Longform TWU Lectures & Posts:

• Epigenetics: An Introduction – Dr Nessa Carey
• Process Based Therapy: An Introduction
• Maslow & The New Science of Self Actualisation– Prof Scott Barry Kaufman
• Diversity, Intersectionality & Psychotherapy– Dr Dwight Turner
• Evolutionary Science & Psychotherapy– Prof Jean Louis Monestes

TWU Clips:

• How Psychology can Transform Society – Prof Steven Hayes
• The Simple Secret to Self Compassion – Prof Paul Gilbert
• Healing Trauma with Internal Family Systems – Dr Richard Schwartz

Books:

• Mindsight – Dan Siegel
• How Enlightenment Changes Your Brain – Andrew Newberg
• Atlas Hugged – David Sloan Wilson
• No Self No Problem – Chris Niebauer
• The Self Delusion – Tom Oliver

Online Courses, Resources & Events:

• Self Compassion Online Course (from Dr Chris Iron and Balanced Minds)
• IMEC 4th International Meaning Conference: A Festival of Hope & Despair
• Compassionate Mind Foundation 10th International Conference
• Eco Psychotherapy: Reclaiming Our Indigenous Relationship with Nature (Confer)

Documentaries:

• Supernature: Esalen and the Human Potential Movement
• Terence McKenna – Seeking the Stone – Mind and Time, Spirit and Matter
• Being: Abraham Maslow
• John Bowlby and Attachment Theory
• Viktor & I – The Viktor Frankl Documentary

Quotes to Ponder:

“I don’t trust people who don’t love themselves and tell me ‘I love you.’ … There is an African saying which is: ‘Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt.” — Maya Angelou

“Life is a spark between two identical voids, the darkness before birth and the one after death.” — Irvin Yalom

“Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It’s a relationship between equals. Only when we know our own darkness well can we be present with the darkness of others. Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity.” — Pema Chodron “

“It is impossible to speak in such a way that you cannot be misunderstood.” — Karl Popper

“Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others.” — Pablo Picasso