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The Emotional Life of Your Brain

by

Richard J. Davidson

Dr. Davidson’s latest book offers a new model for understanding our emotions – their origins, their power and their malleability. He has discovered that personality is composed of six basic emotional “styles,” including resilience, self-awareness, and attention. Our emotional fingerprint results from where on the continuum of each style we fall. He explains the brain circuits that underlie each style in order to give us a new model of the emotional brain, one that will even go so far as to affect the way we treat conditions like autism and depression. And, finally, he provides strategies we can use to change our own brains and emotions-if that is what we want to do.

Peace be with you.

“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful

than the risk it took to blossom.”

― Anaïs Nin

Brainstorm: The Power and Purpose of the Teenage Brain

by Daniel Siegel MD

Between the ages of 12 and 24, the brain changes in important, and oftentimes maddening, ways. It’s no wonder that many parents approach their child’s adolescence with fear and trepidation. According to renowned neuropsychiatrist Daniel Siegel’s New York Times bestseller Brainstorm, if parents and teens can work together to form a deeper understanding of the brain science behind all the tumult, they will be able to turn conflict into connection and form a deeper understanding of one another.

In Brainstorm, Siegel illuminates how brain development impacts teenagers’ behavior and relationships. Drawing on important new research in the field of interpersonal neurobiology, he explores exciting ways in which understanding how the teenage brain functions can help parents make what is in fact an incredibly positive period of growth, change, and experimentation in their children’s lives less lonely and distressing on both sides of the generational divide.

“You know, sometimes all you need is twenty seconds of insane courage.

Just literally twenty seconds of just embarrassing bravery.

And I promise you, something great will come of it.”

― Benjamin Mee, We Bought a Zoo:

The Amazing True Story of a Young Family,

a Broken Down Zoo,

and the 200 Wild Animals That Change Their Lives Forever

“Everything you want is on the other side of fear.”

Santa Clarita Singles Networking Event

Learn more about yourself and others

Open yourself up to new ideas and new people

For: All Adults over 30 Come meet more people in Santa Clarita!

• Are you an Introvert or Extrovert?

• Are you a Thinker or Feeler?

• Do you gain information by Sensing or Intuition?

• Is your Lifestyle based by Judging or Perceiving?

When: May 3,2014

Day & Time: Saturday 3:30pm- 5:30pm

Cost: Free Location: 18500 Via Princessa Suite 3 Canyon Country, CA 91387

Hosted by Michelle Friedman, MA, LMFT &

Suzanne Holmes M.A., LMFT

Event is limited in space; please call today to reserve your spot.

For more information or questions,

Please contact

Michelle 818 730-8069  or

Suzanne at: (818) 625-3626

“In order for connection to happen,

we have to allow ourselves to be seen. Really seen.”

Dr. Brené Brown

Re-Visioning Psychology
by James Hillman

This groundbreaking classic explores the necessity of connections between our life and soul and developing the main lines of the soul-making process.

“Growth fundamentally means an enlarging and expanding of one’s horizons, a growth of one’s boundaries, outwardly in perspective and inwardly in depth… Growth is re-apportionment: re-zoning, re-mapping: an an acknowledgement, and then enrichment, of ever deeper and more encompassing levels of one’s own self.”

Ken Wilber ,

No Boundary

-Eleanor Roosevelt

Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking Paperback
by Susan Cain

In Quiet, Susan Cain argues that we dramatically undervalue introverts and shows how much we lose in doing so. She charts the rise of the Extrovert Ideal throughout the twentieth century and explores how deeply it has come to permeate our culture. She also introduces us to successful introverts—from a witty, high-octane public speaker who recharges in solitude after his talks, to a record-breaking salesman who quietly taps into the power of questions. Passionately argued, superbly researched, and filled with indelible stories of real people, Quiet has the power to permanently change how we see introverts and, equally important, how they see themselves.

Full Catastrophe Living: Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain, and Illness 
by Jon Kabat-Zinn

Stress. It is everywhere around us. Even worse, it gets inside us: sapping our energy, undermining our health, and making us more vulnerable to anxiety, depression, and disease. Now, based on Dr. Jon Kabat-Zinn’s renowned mindfulness-based stress reduction program, this groundbreaking book shows you how to use natural, medically proven methods to soothe and heal your body, mind, and spirit.

By using the practices described within, you can learn to manage chronic pain resulting from illness and/or stress related disorders…discover the roles that anger and tension play in heart disease… reduce anxiety and feelings of panic…improve overall quality of life and relationships through mindfulness meditation and mindful yoga. More timely than ever before, Full Catastrophe Living is a book for the young and the old, the well, the ill, and anyone trying to live a healthier and saner life in today’s world.