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What’s the first step of habit change? Going off autopilot!
Changing behavior requires self-awareness. Changing a well-worn habit in particular requires that you move it from “automatic” to “conscious” so that you can make other behavioral choices. For example,...
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Eating food isn’t as easy as it may seem. Sure, you’ve been doing it all your life, but how often are you really paying attention to what you eat? Do you have any idea how many calories you are...
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I’m Freaking Out . . . Now What?
One major reason people start and continue using substances (or engaging in other compulsive behaviors like shopping, gambling, etc.) is that they are “mood altering.” At least initially, most...
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Improve Communication Through Greater Awareness of Triangulation
We’ve all been there. You get in a fight with your mother and immediately call your sister to tell her all about it. You and your sister commiserate on how horrible your mother is, you start to feel...
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Springtime Cleaning for Better Health
Spring time brings thoughts of cleaning. Outside, we clean up our yards from the debris that has accumulated throughout the winter. Inside we transition into our springtime wardrobe, and purge items...
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Why Are We So Afraid of Choice When It Comes to Substance Use Problems?
Stigma and judgment continue to persist when it comes to substance problems and it’s time the conversation changed in this country from moralistic judgment and pessimism to compassion and...
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Get Fit If You Always Sit
One of the most challenging aspects of exercising is simply finding time for it. Many of us find ourselves sitting at a desk for the majority of our working lives. How can one expect to stay fit...
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Eating for Exercise
At CMC we encourage everyone to work out and eat well as doing so is an important part of making lasting behavioral changes. You may be someone who has always worked out and eaten well, you may be...
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Why Are Relationships So Hard?!: Understanding and Overcoming Interpersonal...
“Why can’t I find someone that respects me?!?!” “I always manage to end up with a supervisor that doesn’t take me seriously.” “I work so hard to be nice to other people, why doesn’t anyone seem to...
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Finding Your Balance
Every wonder what it means to be a balanced person? Does it mean being in control all the time? Being calm all the time? Able to handle anything? Moderate in all things? Able to stay composed when...
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Learning Requires Practice
Fall is back to school time. Summer is over and students everywhere are making the transition to new routines and the anticipation of learning new things. Even though “learning new things” is the...
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Great Idea: BIGVision NYC offers Sober Activites for Young Adults
In many ways, Isaac Goldberg Volkmar was an all too classic example of those coping with addiction. Isaac always struggled to fit in, and like far too many people, he eventually turned to drugs and...
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What is Mindfulness?
Mindfulness is an offshoot of Taoist and Buddhist practice which focuses on putting yourself in the present moment. While there is no one accepted definition of Mindfulness, one common one (and the one...
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Trauma: The Wounds We Don’t See
“I’m always on edge. I feel shaky inside. I’m so easily startled.” “I feel numb. I don’t know what I feel. I’m not sure I can even feel at all. “ Emotional and/or physical trauma can impact a person’s...
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Skills to deal with Anxiety, Distress and Cravings
Changing your relationship with substances or any compulsive behavior pattern takes time and practice. When you first start to reduce or abstain from the behavior you are trying the change, you will...
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4 Ways to Stick To Your Goals During the Holidays
The holidays are the time of year when many people are at risk for losing sight of their behavioral goals (e.g., drinking less, losing 5 pounds less, quitting smoking, starting a new work out routine,...
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Coming “Om” for the holidays
The holidays can be a very challenging time for many of us, with feelings of loss or loneliness that are amplified by the seasonal imagery of full, happy families and holiday cheer. As a yoga teacher I...
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Who Needs to “Hit Rock Bottom”?
We are almost positive you have heard someone say “he won’t change until he hits bottom.” Have you ever thought deeply about what is being conveyed in that statement? Slang for as bad as it gets,...
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Let Values Motivate You To Change
We are often motivated to make a behavioral change because we want a bad feeling or a negative behavior to go away. If someone is drinking too much and getting into fights with their friends that they...
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Don’t Feed the Tigers!: Facing Your Feelings
There is an unfortunate reality in life, sometimes you don’t feel good. This is not “news” to anyone reading this . . . you may even be having a bad day right now! In these moments, do you have the...
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