Mental Heath News - Holiday Edition

Conscious Mental Health

In today’s holiday mental health news special:

• The holiday blues and tips for navigating the season
• Psychology of gift-giving
• Paradox mindset and winter solstice
• Supportive resource for yourself and others this holiday season

Podcast listeners will receive 15% off our upcoming live training, Liberating Joy From Loss Through Prescriptive Memory Making and Dyadic Creativity with Dreamscape Developer Nancy Gersham (code revealed at the end of the podcast).
When working with a client’s memory, how do we locate the fleeting, joyful bits so often overshadowed by loss that no new insights can emerge? This playful approach begins with curating novelty from positive felt-sense memories- then co-creating an even more novel "prescriptive" memory from these lived experiences to become where healing can happen.
In this master class, Nancy Gershman will introduce a cinematic technique for arriving at the memory our client needs to move from isolation to re-integration in the world. Case studies will demonstrate how prescriptive memories are compounded in a client’s imagination, with magic realism launching memory reconsolidation capable of updating long-term distressing memories. Live demos will give you an excellent sense of how to listen or prompt for incongruity so you can lead your client to new sources of courage and humor based on personally developed imaginal or photo-based artwork.
Implications for using this method in-person or via telehealth, with adult populations (grief and non-death related loss) and in clinical settings (hospice) will be addressed. This training requires no artistic background and applies to all licensed mental health providers.
Music Credits

Music from #Uppbeat
https://uppbeat.io/t/john-hayes/no-home
License code: AUSKJNHP3I5LFRAZ

https://uppbeat.io/t/soundroll/winter-morning
License code: YCGDQOP7O1SDTYSC
https://uppbeat.io/t/roger-gabalda/winters-tale
License code: BJNUFGEXVAZIHKSC
https://uppbeat.io/t/roo-walker/elf-culture
License code: Q1OZM4OIW9U0P4PN
Clip Credits

• Malacomca @FTANDME
• GLOW Up with Rashá @LifewithRasha
• PBS Newshour @PBSNewsHour
• Our changing Climate @OurChangingClimate
• Roundtable @RoundtableTRTWorld
• BrainCraft @braincraft
• TED - ED @TEDEd
• Video by Pressmaster: https://www.pexels.com/video/an-elderly-woman-giving-a-gift-to-her-husband-3192051/
• Video by Tobias Wagner: https://www.pexels.com/video/the-sun-illuminating-earth-s-surface-4156415/

Links
https://www.findhelp.org (find local assistance resources near you)
Sources

• Gilovich, T., & Kumar, A. (2015). We’ll always have Paris. In Advances in Experimental Social Psychology (pp. 147–187). https://doi.org/10.1016/bs.aesp.2014.10.002
• Ledwith, M. (2023, August 29). The Psychology Of Giving Gifts. Tweak and Twine. Retrieved December 5, 2023, from https://www.teakandtwine.com/blog/the-psychology-of-gift-giving
• Looking for support during the holidays? Check out these free resources. (n.d.). Mental Health America. https://mhanational.org/blog/looking-support-during-holidays-check-out-these-free-resources
• MSEd, K. C. (2022, December 12). What are the hol

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