http://www.simi-therapy.com/blog skills to help relationships, family, children and you! Sun, 08 Aug 2010 19:41:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 en hourly 1 http://www.simi-therapy.com/blog/anxiety-depression-simi-anxious-depressed/576/ http://www.simi-therapy.com/blog/anxiety-depression-simi-anxious-depressed/576/#comments Tue, 30 Mar 2010 16:16:11 +0000 Deborah Tucker http://www.simi-therapy.com/blog/?p=576 http://www.simi-therapy.com/blog/anxiety-depression-simi-anxious-depressed/576/feed/ 0 http://www.simi-therapy.com/blog/life-after-brain-injury-human-services-fair/574/ http://www.simi-therapy.com/blog/life-after-brain-injury-human-services-fair/574/#comments Tue, 23 Mar 2010 21:04:09 +0000 Deborah Tucker http://www.simi-therapy.com/blog/?p=574 http://www.simi-therapy.com/blog/life-after-brain-injury-human-services-fair/574/feed/ 0 http://www.simi-therapy.com/blog/football-read-before-playing-or-signing-up-your-son/517/ http://www.simi-therapy.com/blog/football-read-before-playing-or-signing-up-your-son/517/#comments Thu, 04 Feb 2010 18:15:45 +0000 Deborah Tucker http://www.simi-therapy.com/blog/?p=517 We keep reading more and more about how seemingly minor head injuries can cause major trauma to the brain.  At the risk of offending the entire football playing community of parents, I am posting this link to Time Magazine’s article from 1/28/10. It talks at length about the long-lasting problems that cumulative concussions can cause.  I [...]]]> http://www.simi-therapy.com/blog/football-read-before-playing-or-signing-up-your-son/517/feed/ 0 http://www.simi-therapy.com/blog/does-letting-your-baby-cry-it-out-cause-harm/495/ http://www.simi-therapy.com/blog/does-letting-your-baby-cry-it-out-cause-harm/495/#comments Mon, 25 Jan 2010 00:31:36 +0000 Deborah Tucker http://www.simi-therapy.com/blog/?p=495 Here’s a link to a post that was being share on one of my therapist email lists recently. http://www.drmomma.org/2009/12/crying-it-out-causes-brain-damage.html For us “old moms” it can be upsetting to wonder if we caused damage by letting our children cry.  I can’t remember too many events where that was true, but one in particular stands out.  I remember our [...]]]> http://www.simi-therapy.com/blog/does-letting-your-baby-cry-it-out-cause-harm/495/feed/ 0 http://www.simi-therapy.com/blog/how-movements-and-muscles-influence-our-emotions/251/ http://www.simi-therapy.com/blog/how-movements-and-muscles-influence-our-emotions/251/#comments Sat, 09 May 2009 21:48:59 +0000 Deborah Tucker http://www.simi-therapy.com/blog/?p=251 I just read a very interesting article in the latest Psychology Today (May/June 2009, page, by Matthew Hutson) entitled “The Muscle is the Message”. There doesn’t seem to be a link to it, so with all credit given to Matthew Hutson, I’d like to summarize it here. It really demonstrates the connections our [...]]]> http://www.simi-therapy.com/blog/how-movements-and-muscles-influence-our-emotions/251/feed/ 0 http://www.simi-therapy.com/blog/mindfulness-and-brain-science/238/ http://www.simi-therapy.com/blog/mindfulness-and-brain-science/238/#comments Sat, 25 Apr 2009 01:56:09 +0000 Deborah Tucker http://www.simi-therapy.com/blog/?p=238 Image via Wikipedia I just came from a great lecture by Mark Waldman on spirituality and neuroscience. What we are learning about how the brain works is so amazing! Thanks to imaging studies, we can see what parts of the brain “light up” or are activated as we experience different thoughts and emotions. [...]]]> http://www.simi-therapy.com/blog/mindfulness-and-brain-science/238/feed/ 0 http://www.simi-therapy.com/blog/dont-forget-to-work-out-your-brain/112/ http://www.simi-therapy.com/blog/dont-forget-to-work-out-your-brain/112/#comments Fri, 23 Jan 2009 01:07:55 +0000 Deborah Tucker http://www.simi-therapy.com/blog/?p=112 http://www.simi-therapy.com/blog/dont-forget-to-work-out-your-brain/112/feed/ 0 http://www.simi-therapy.com/blog/tetris-as-a-way-to-prevent-ptsd/110/ http://www.simi-therapy.com/blog/tetris-as-a-way-to-prevent-ptsd/110/#comments Fri, 16 Jan 2009 20:28:07 +0000 Deborah Tucker http://www.simi-therapy.com/blog/tetris-as-a-way-to-prevent-ptsd/110/ http://www.simi-therapy.com/blog/tetris-as-a-way-to-prevent-ptsd/110/feed/ 0 http://www.simi-therapy.com/blog/keep-your-brain-healthy/13/ http://www.simi-therapy.com/blog/keep-your-brain-healthy/13/#comments Sun, 08 Jun 2008 23:31:00 +0000 Deborah Tucker http://www.simi-therapy.com/blog/?p=13 http://www.simi-therapy.com/blog/keep-your-brain-healthy/13/feed/ 0 http://www.simi-therapy.com/blog/our-marvelous-brains/8/ http://www.simi-therapy.com/blog/our-marvelous-brains/8/#comments Sun, 24 Feb 2008 05:29:00 +0000 Deborah Tucker http://www.simi-therapy.com/blog/?p=8 http://www.simi-therapy.com/blog/our-marvelous-brains/8/feed/ 0