Health Journeys blog syndication http://belleruthnaparstek.com 2010-03-11T21:27:59+01:00 http://belleruthnaparstek.com http://belleruthnaparstek.com/images/M_images/joomla_rss.png text/html 2010-03-08T00:00:00+01:00 http://belleruthnaparstek.com http://belleruthnaparstek.com/update-from-belleruth/last-call-for-topic-suggestions-for-new-imagery.html Hello again. One of the most difficult symptoms to treat has always been repeating nightmares. Insight therapy never did get a whole lot of traction on them, and my own personal track record as a therapist was pretty lame. But along come two terrific psychologists and traumatic stress experts at the Louis Stokes Cleveland V.A. Medical Center, Drs. Edgardo Padin-Rivera and Beverly Donovan, who’ve managed to cobble together an ingenious, idiot-proof, quick and 90% effective protocol (a combination of Lucid Dreaming, EMDR and guided imagery) that drives those nasty, tenacious suckers clean out of your head.... text/html 2010-03-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://belleruthnaparstek.com http://belleruthnaparstek.com/update-from-belleruth/guided-imagery-is-winging-its-way-to-our-troops-in-iraq-afghanistan.html Playaway (http://www.healthjourneys.com/playaway.asp). Every month the Playaway people send mounds of spoken word audiobooks to our troops - fiction, self-help, the Bible, language lessons - to distract, entertain, teach and support them downrange. Now, added to the mix, will be a big, blessed mess o’ calming, sleep-inducing, de-stressing and emotionally balancing guided imagery. text/html 2010-02-22T00:00:00+01:00 http://belleruthnaparstek.com http://belleruthnaparstek.com/update-from-belleruth/ok-we-re-ready-what-to-make-next.html Hello, everyone. I’ve been carefully going over over 170 responses to my question, “What should we make next?” I’m shocked, dismayed and embarrassed to say I asked it nearly a year ago - it’s been that long, being as how we got seriously diverted by the job of getting our audios to more of our sleep-deprived, over-adrenergized, trauma-impacted troops and vets. So I apologize for the delay (although I’m not sorry about what we’ve been doing that caused it). But the good news is, at least I saved all the suggestions. I’ve been combing through them, looking... text/html 2010-02-15T00:00:00+01:00 http://belleruthnaparstek.com http://belleruthnaparstek.com/update-from-belleruth/two-new-books-you-should-know-about.html The Power of Your Child's Imagination: How to Transform Stress Anxiety into Joy Success (http://www.healthjourneys.com/Product_Detail.aspx?id=513). This is a terrific resource for parents, teachers and anyone who spends time with kids, offering simple, accessible, well-tested advice and expert guided imagery tools to help kids with all kinds of struggles and quandaries. Charlotte knows kids and she knows the challenges they face, and she’s got practical, empowering, fully vetted guided imagery solutions for them. There are techniques for everything from bed-wetting to coping with divorce to test anxiety to managing anger…. and a lot more. And even though... text/html 2010-02-08T00:00:00+01:00 http://belleruthnaparstek.com http://belleruthnaparstek.com/update-from-belleruth/status-update-making-more-inroads-on-traumatic-stress.html Hello, All. The piece comparing our Vietnam vets to our current crop of troops coming back from Iraq and Afghanistan has gotten some great conversations going, both here (http://belleruthnaparstek.com/update-from-belleruth/troops-from-iraq-afghanistan-present-different-challenges-from-vietnam-vets.html) and on Huffington Post (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/belleruth-naparstek/returning-troops-from-ira_b_448924.html). I stand corrected on the matter of draftees - only a third of our Vietnam troops were drafted - the majority was volunteer. Many related points about current needs were highlighted by postings from various vets and their families under the original article, and it’s worth having a second look, just for the comments.