IVA PERVAN Msc Clinical & Health Psychology, YTT300 Yoga & Meditation Teacher Program Manager AT DARA Koh Chang In 2016 EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) celebrated its 27th anniversary. As is often the case with scientific breakthroughs, its discovery was accidental. In 1987, Dr Francine Shapiro, an American clinical psychologist, whilst walking in a park, […]
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
Addiction: An Unconventional Disease Part 3
Addiction: An Unconventional Disease Part 3
Welcome back to our final chapter of looking into the complex and unconventional disease that is an addiction. In our last article, we reviewed the differences between dependence and addiction and confirmed that addiction is indeed a disease. Today we put this topic to rest by looking deeper into intricacies of the human brain, its […]
Addiction: An Unconventional Disease Part 2
Addiction: An Unconventional Disease Part 2
Welcome back. In our previous article, we explored what is a disease in a bid to understand how addiction can be classified as one of them. Today, we look at the other side of the coin. We will try to identify what is an Addiction to better understand how it influences human body in the […]
Addiction: An Unconventional Disease
Addiction: An Unconventional Disease
When someone tells you, that they have a disease, most likely you will recoil and think twice before shaking their hand. A disease in most people’s interpretation is something that is dirty, disgusting and most importantly – very contagious and can be spread to others. The truth of the matter is, that there are many […]
DIY Prison Sentence
DIY Prison Sentence
A meal in a restaurant is great, but a home-made feast is so much better, right? Even if the quality is on par, it’s the sense of satisfaction that one gets from something that has been made or prepared by themselves. Grandma’s home-made jams and preserves are neck and shoulders above anything you could […]
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