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Mood Change Library
  • Gut-Brain Axis: Director of Mental Health?  

    Gut-Brain Axis: Director of Mental Health?  

    There’s burgeoning evidence that the various bacterial species inhabiting our gut have an important influence on our psychological health. Based on their antidepressant and anxiolytic effects, these beneficial bacteria that inhabit our GI tract have been dubbed “psychobiotics”. Continue reading →

  • INSOMNIA’S UNBIDDEN BEDFELLOWS: Breaking the Vicious Cycle of Insomnia, Anxiety & Depression

    INSOMNIA’S UNBIDDEN BEDFELLOWS: Breaking the Vicious Cycle of Insomnia, Anxiety & Depression

    Find out how to defeat the vicious cycle by resetting the biological clock with Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia and how to short-circuit stress and inflammation with biofeedback, hypnosis and talk therapy. Continue reading →

  • INSOMNIA’S UNBIDDEN BEDFELLOWS: Anxiety & Depression

    INSOMNIA’S UNBIDDEN BEDFELLOWS: Anxiety & Depression

    Insomnia, depression and anxiety share common causes and often occur together. All 3 feed a vicious cycle worsening each condition. Stress is the common thread tying insomnia, circadian disruption, anxiety and depression together. Stress ignites a firestorm of inflammation suppressing levels of the sleep-hormone melatonin and elevating the stress-hormone cortisol. Continue reading →

  • Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy: A Swiss-Army Knife for Tackling Anxiety & Depression

    Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy: A Swiss-Army Knife for Tackling Anxiety & Depression

    The value of reducing stress is widely embraced. An analytic review of 39 studies including 1,140 people with conditions including generalized anxiety disorder and depression found that mindfulness-based therapy, a widely-used stress-busting technique, was associated with significant improvement in anxiety disorders and depression. Continue reading →

  • Harness Hidden Strengths with Hypnotherapy

    Harness Hidden Strengths with Hypnotherapy

    A 2021 study comparing cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) to hypnotherapy showed hypnotherapy is at least as effective as gold-standard CBT for reducing symptoms of mild to moderate depression. A 2019 analysis of 15 studies found “the average participant receiving hypnosis reduced anxiety more than about 79% of control participants.” Continue reading →

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