Joan Borysenko PhD

Founder of Mind/Body Health Sciences LLC; Author of New York Times Bestseller Minding the Body, Mending the Mind

Biography

Week 6 Video #1

The Common Pattern to “Stuckness”

Week 9 Video #1

How to Help Patients Use New Neural Circuits to Get Unstuck

Week 12 Video #4

3 Questions To Restore Vitality

Week 13 Video #3

One Way to Maintain Vitality Over the Long Haul

Week 18 Video #3

How the “Devil’s Circle” Can Help a Client Identify Their Limiting Beliefs

Week 18 Video #4

Why It’s Crucial to Help Clients See Limiting Beliefs Graciously

Week 25 Video #3

3 Crucial Elements of Resilience

Week 25 Video #4

How to Build Resilience

Week 54 Video #1

Helping Clients Find a Level of Control When Facing an Impending Loss

Week 56 Video #2

Rewiring the Resistant Brain

Week 64 Video #1

How Making a Contribution Can Shift the View of the Self

Week 71 Video #1

The “Return” in the Rite of Passage

Week 73 Video #3

Why It’s Not Always about the Breath

Week 79 Video #2

How Genuine Enthusiasm Can Make You Miss the Mark

Week 88 Video #4

How to Know When We Should Follow the Client’s Lead

Week 104 Video #3

How to Diminish the Power of the Inner Critic

Week 105 Video #3

Self-Esteem vs. Self-Compassion: Why The Distinction Matters When Working with the Inner Critic

Week 133 Video #2

Reducing Codependency Sparked by Abandonment Fears

Week 140 Video #3

Helping Clients Find Relief from a Perfectionist Inner Critic

Week 141 Video #3

Three Types of Perfectionism (and How to Reduce Their Power)

Week 192 – The Pervasive Problem of Loneliness

Week 194 – Approaching Loneliness from Multiple Clinical Perspectives

Week 214 – Exercises and Skills for Empowering Pleasers and Appeasers

Week 216 – The All-Encompassing Issue of Rigidity

Week 222 – Trust Examined

Week 228 – What Feeds Despair

Week 238 – Incorporating a Client’s Values and Beliefs as Resources for Navigating Uncertainty

Week 246 – Grandiosity and Narcissism – What are They? How Do They Differ?

Week 260— Helping Clients When Perfectionism and Overachievement Exacerbates Unworthiness

Week 268 – How to Help Clients Whose Experience of Never Fitting In Fractures Their Relationships

Week 271 – Practical Exercises to Help Prepare Clients for Conflict

Week 292 – Practical Exercises to Help Prepare Clients for Making a Change

Practical Strategies for Helping Clients Who Struggle with Regret (Week 311)

Expert Strategies to Help Clients Address and Unpack Painful Feelings of Jealousy and Envy (Week 312)

Expert Strategies to Help Clients Address and Unpack Painful Feelings of Jealousy and Envy (Week 316)

Expert Strategies to Help Clients Shift Out of Persistent Feelings of Defectiveness (Week 321)