Tag Archive for: James Pennebaker
Video: Tell the Truth; Your Health Depends On It.
It's important for health to learn how to authentically self-express, to honestly say what you feel to others, to ask for what you want, and to be totally honest about what you don't want. Studies have shown that hospitalized patients who are…
Video: Authenticity and Self-Expression
People who are open, emotionally vulnerable and available, are healthier both mentally and physically. Through mindfulness, we can, and I recommend setting a clear intention everyday to be as open and vulnerable with everyone we meet. This practice…
How Your Thinking Affects Your Health Part 3 of 3
Part 3 of 3 Increased emotional distress results in the release of catecholamines (substances allowing us to respond to stressors), which is damaging to the intimal endothelium (inner-most lining) of the coronary arteries. That, in turn, leads…
Health Effects of Avoidance Versus Acceptance
Effects on Health: The Physiology of Avoidance Versus Acceptance
Now let’s take a look at the effects of experiential avoidance on health so we can see why it is so important for those of us with chronic medical conditions to become aware…
Authentic Self-Expression and Health Part 3
Expressive Writing and Immune Function Research psychologist Sonja Lyubomirsky found in her psychotherapy practice that those who write are happier. Adopting the creative writing exercises of psychoneuroimmunology researcher James Pennebaker,…