Rebecca Kahn Transformational Life Coach

05/06/2024

This Mental Health Awareness Month, world-class athletes are sharing the importance of prioritizing mental as well as physical well-being.

01/13/2024

"We finally cracked the code on how to do it," the Stanford researchers said.

01/03/2024

Another informative article from
Child Mind Institute.
As a parent or loved one, please understand the stress that kids are under.

Support them.
Love them.
Acknowledge their thinking and feelings ("I see you are struggling with this...") d instead of dismissing them ("but your so smart")

Kids with learning disabilities are more likely to be depressed. They need emotional as well as academic support to succeed.

12/22/2023

There are so many ways to evolve from PTSD and Trauma.

There is a way out of the suffering.

Along with other recent research on options like NLP, Hypnotherapy, other Somatic therapies…. Here is one for Yoga Therapy and PTSD.

A new gold standard for the treatment of PTSD? Dec 15, 2023 | Blog | 0 commentsBy Karen Schwartz Our understanding of trauma has developed—and changed—significantly in the past 20 years, and so has our understanding of how to help people suffering from trauma. The concept of posttraumatic stress...

09/15/2023

Want to feel better?

Its all connected.... our bodies, our minds, our moods, our thoughts, ourselves.

move
don't spend too much time with your thoughts.
spend time wirh others
be grateful

My journey of deeply understanding this connection to help others:

Certified ACSM Personal Trainer - 20+ years
Certified Yoga Teacher - 20 + years
Certified in Pilates, Spin, TRX, Kettlebell, Stretching Facilitator - 20+ years
Certified Transformational Life and Health Coach-10 years
Certified Success Coach- 8 years
Certified Nuerolinguistic Programming Practitioner- 5 years
Certified Hypnotherapist - 4 years
Certified YOGA THERAPIST - MAY 2024 (3 year program)

I love how the research is catching up to what we've intuitively known all this time.

It is all connected. We are all connected.

Want to feel better?

More Breaking News: Depression Is A Movement Disorder.

Exercise has long topped the list of interventions for depression. And yet, just advocating exercise to alleviate depression is a very blunt tool.

Most research on bodily processes in depression refers to psychomotor slowing, a global decrease in the speed of movement, speech, facial expression. But an innovative 2022 study delved into the specifics of movement issues in depression, with implications for what and how we might move.

The researchers examined three major domains of movement: muscle tone and posture, gross motor skills, and perceptual-motor skills.

They used a battery of psychomotor tasks to assess several subdomains of movement including:

-passive muscle tone
-active muscle tone
-posture
-gross motor skills
-dynamic balance
-static balance
-manual dexterity
-spatial integration
-rhythm

The results were striking across a wide variety of motor tasks.

The researchers observed significant differences between people with depression and healthy controls on tasks assessing muscle tone, posture, and gross motor skills (seen, for example, in the ability to walk backwards down a straight line, jumping tasks, and manual dexterity).

The researchers found something else, too.

People with depression had difficulty voluntarily achieving muscle relaxation. Psychomotor delay or slowness, they concluded, may mask a high level of body tension unobservable to clinicians.

These results have huge implications for the role of the body in the treatment of depression.

And that's where all us yoga, yoga therapy, fascia therapy, mind-body movement peeps (tai chi, qi gong, Parkour, and more) have the potential, alongside movement testing, to offer movement and restorative yoga as therapy, and targeted, one-on-one work.

Movement and restorative yoga as therapy. Just what we've always known, except with more nuance, granularity, and therapeutic focus.

To put an exclamation point on this idea: The body in motion is embedded in the world. When something compromises movement, our relationship with self and world is naturally disturbed. This may explain in part the social withdrawal emblematic of depression.

To read my full piece and its implications for depression, visit my S😄bstack. 💚

08/28/2023

Free Conference - Mindful Parenting and Emotional Wellness - November 10-14

05/26/2023

This Advisory describes the current evidence on the impacts of social media on the mental health of children and adolescents.

05/26/2023

Childmind Institute resources for screen tinme and technology

Resources and tips on healthy use of technology in children, including limits on screen time for each age group from toddlers to teenagers.

05/26/2023

Ok, parents, teens, young adults...
Here is the advisory from the Surgeon General about the effects of social media on youth mental health. I will also be sharing some resources from Child Mind Institute for help.

This Advisory describes the current evidence on the impacts of social media on the mental health of children and adolescents.

08/31/2022

UNTOLD BREAKING POINT.
Netflix

Mardy Fish, tennis star... with Andy Roddick, tennis star.
Telling his story of Anxiety. His story of being a world class athlete with anxiety and how he addressed the stigma... with help.
Courage.

We are all just humans. And many times we need other humans.
The risk is worth the reward. It's ok, ask for help.

02/16/2022

Yes. Our subconscious is running the show. Hypnotherapy is a way to tap into your subconscious without your logical conscious mind in the way. It is effective and safe. I love that these kids are getting the experience of knowing and managing their minds.
Signed,
Rebecca Kahn, certified hypnotherapist

One school official said their building was "less chaotic" since implementing the program.