How to Use the Breath to Ground and Calm Your Mind
When we're activated, our fight-flight-or freeze response is in gear, we're overcome by our distress and that's all we can see. But, if we expand [...]
How Does Our Brain Wiring Show Up in Our Attachment Styles?
As infants, we are incredibly adaptive. We monitor our caregivers—their moods, emotional signals, and behavior—and figure out how best to maximize the care we can [...]
The Secret to Loving Again After You’ve Been Hurt
If you've been alive and dating for very long, chances are you've had a relationship go awry. You've been hurt. Whether the two of you [...]
4 Practices To Help You Connect With Your Emotional Experience
Over the last few weeks we've explored the individual elements behind the second step of my four-step process, Stop, Drop, and Stay - that teaches [...]
A Mindfulness Meditation to help us Befriend our Stress in this Historic Time
The world has been turned upside down in a very short time, and the impact on our psychological well-being is profound. Sometimes it feels like [...]
How Men Can Look Inward To Break the Cycle of Pain, Anger, and Defensiveness
In August of 2019, I was a guest on Dan Griffin's Man Rules podcast to talk about my book Loving Like You Mean It. Dan [...]
Stressed and Emotionally Reactive? Use Mindfulness to Connect to, Not Fight With, Your Partner
Many of us feel complicated emotions during these trying times, feelings that may be outside our awareness but cause us to be easily triggered and [...]
How To Deepen Our Bonds with Loved Ones During a Crisis
The need for emotional connection is wired into our DNA. From the time we’re born, and throughout our lives, we are innately motivated to emotionally [...]
Interview: Harvesting Happiness Talk Radio
Dr. Ron Frederick speaks with Lisa Cypers Kamen on Harvesting Happiness Talk Radio about how we can bring our most mindful selves to relationships. You [...]
Sheltering in Place with Your Partner? 4 Steps for Fighting Less and Connecting More
In these unprecedented times, with so many people sequestered in their homes in an attempt to stop the spread of the coronavirus, relationships can be [...]
