by Dr. Jennifer Franklin | Jul 26, 2017 | Healing, Mindfulness
Let’s return to discussing the Check-In exercise. The Check-In is an exercise in self-care as much as anything else. To be successful with the Check-In exercise, you must be willing to pause and interrupt your normal routine. If doing so feels difficult to impossible,...
by Dr. Jennifer Franklin | Jul 18, 2017 | Healing, Mindfulness
Let’s return to discussing the Check-In exercise. The Check-In exercise quickly demonstrates your strengths and weaknesses across a set of skills. Those skills include slowing down, paying attention, tuning into various parts of yourself, non-judgmentally observing...
by Dr. Jennifer Franklin | Jun 21, 2017 | Healing, Mindfulness
In the last blog post I presented the Check-In. The Check-In exercise is an expedient way for you to facilitate self-awareness and mindfulness, which is critical to healing. Self-awareness and mindfulness together deepen our insight into the way your thoughts,...
by Dr. Jennifer Franklin | Jun 9, 2017 | Healing, Mindfulness
In the last blog post, I offered some general instructions for bringing mindfulness you’re your daily life and offered a number of simple ways to facilitate mindfulness in everyday life. In this blog post, I’m going to walk you through my favorite mindfulness...
by Dr. Jennifer Franklin | Jun 2, 2017 | Healing, Mindfulness
Whether or not you have a formal mindfulness meditation practice, I strongly recommend that you start to modify your behavior in gradual ways to facilitate some mindful moments in your everyday life. In general, it is a whole lot easier to make slight modifications to...
by Dr. Jennifer Franklin | May 19, 2017 | Healing, Mindfulness
In my last blog post, I wrote about self-awareness, the capacity for coming to know things about oneself. As I mentioned, this is an essential element of healing from Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS), another functional gastrointestinal problem, or a functional...
