Jeff Sullivan, MS,
Licensed Professional Counselor
July 26, 2019
Developing a mindfulness practice is a crucial element in becoming self-aware. Mindfulness is the conscious awareness of what is going on inside our minds, our bodies, and our world, and an awareness of the relationships between those things. Most people think of mindfulness in terms of mindfulness meditation, and certainly, that practice forms the foundation […]
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June 19, 2019
There are often underlying psychological barriers that can prevent us from achieving long-term weight loss. Sometimes, we feel emotionally or spiritually hungry when physically our body is full, and those hunger pangs feel very real. For example, one day I was at the airport, and I felt like I wanted to eat something. I knew […]
Read ArticleJune 6, 2019
To become lighter in body, first become lighter in mind and spirit. Human beings consist of three major dimensions: your mind, body, and spirit. When it comes to long-term weight-loss, the body tends to be the only focus of a weight-loss program. And although weight loss needs to address the body, the mind and spirit […]
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January 9, 2019
In our past considerations of how not to reach goals, we generally described insufficient motivation, daunting roadblocks or too much inhibition. One way to look at inhibition is inhibition as objection, or the “yeah, but …” train of thought. Objections can be conscious or unconscious, and either supportive or limiting. An example of a conscious, […]
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November 13, 2018
In the previous post on the basics of neurons, I described being undermotivated and overinhibited as two ways we do not achieve our goals. There are also two other ways of personal goal setting which bear some relationship to each other. The first is to have a poorly defined goal (or no goal at all!), […]
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June 1, 2018
Ah, the humble, amazing neuron! The neuron is the cell on which our entire nervous system is based. Neurons work in a remarkably simple way: they collect inputs from other neurons that either encourage or discourage them from passing on a signal themselves. Additionally, they consider more than whether the encouragement (technically called excitation) exceeds […]
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