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Charlie Swenson, MD
In a manner that is absolutely true to these words from her DBT and life mentor, Seth Axelrod, Andrea Gold has completed her one year of prescribed treatment for breast cancer, with the best results one can hope for. Tune in to this episode to hear Andrea celebrate the completion of the year and reflect upon how she managed the suffering (a lot) and created fun and connection through it all (a lot). She brings an infectious and intelligent enthusiasm, an emotional and affiliative personality, and a bad-ass exposure and DBT lifestyle, to rather grim cancer-related events: diagnosis, staging, mastectomy, radiation, chemotherapy, and survivorship. Listen, connect, reflect…learn from her. View video version of this podcast View Gallery
In part 2 of the conversation with world class trainer Cem Eren, join Charlie and Nicole and enter the Lion’s Den, a practice environment thoughtfully constructed to support our training journey from the moment we step through the door until the moment we step out of it. As we tour the space, we hear how unconditional acceptance underlies Cem’s strategy for facilitating positive change, and how his intuitive application of dialectics translates to clients that consistently hit huge goals and make extraordinary transformations. View video version of this podcast
"In this episode, Nicole and Charlie tap into the wisdom that Cem Eren has gained from two decades of training elite NBA athletes, boxers, bodybuilders, beauty contestants, and ordinary humans of all ages. In examples that extend to therapy and coaching, Cem shares how he meets his clients every single day with freshness, compassion, dignity, and nonjudgmental presence, helping them connect with their strengths while building toward their goals.
In this podcast, Charlie returns to complete his discussion over several podcasts about using DBT’s core mindfulness skills for surviving hell and returning from it.
I became aware during college that I was drawn to remoteness amidst gatherings of people, and self-imposed deprivation amidst plenty. So it was not as unusual as it may sound that for nearly a week during one Thanksgiving break I confined myself alone to the depths of the university’s catacomb-like biological laboratories, where almost the […]
His Holiness the Dalai Lama gave a public lecture in our little town, Northampton, Massachusetts. When he invited questions from the audience, he was asked if he had any advice for raising children. “Raise children? Me? I’m afraid I have no experience.” He laughed his sweet Dalai Lama laugh at the thought of being considered […]
Was I out of my mind? Standing at the porch, having already rung the doorbell, I was having serious second thoughts. Maybe this wasn’t such a good idea. In short, I was scared! I had just walked nearly half a mile through the neighborhood to find the house, and I was the only white person […]
The first two paragraphs provide a very brief summary of the principles of Change and Acceptance, which I covered in more detail in the last two blogs. So if you prefer, you can jump past them and go right to the principles of the Dialectical Paradigm. Think of any difficult spot in which you find […]
Presence Impermanence Non-attachment Inter-being Perfect-as-is One Sunday in October, years ago, I was driving my family to visit a wonderful Halloween maze created every year by a farmer in his field. I don’t recall what I was thinking about, but I was preoccupied with something related to my work, trying to figure something out. In […]
Yesterday I was getting dressed in the locker room at the YMCA after swimming. I overheard a conversation taking place between two guys who obviously knew each other. One was upset with his son-in-law. He’s been complaining, on and on and on, about the fact that the school next to their house has put up […]
Marsha Linehan developed DBT to help suicidal individuals get out of emotional hell and to help them build lives worth living. As it turns out, the therapeutic action of the treatment seems to depend on helping the patient gain the capacity to regulate emotions more effectively, relying heavily on learning and applying skills. But think […]
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For years my wife contributed money to a nearby animal shelter. In the annual drawing, her name was chosen from those of other contributors, amounting to her first ever win in a contest like that. And the prize was immense: two nights for two people at the Plaza Hotel in New York City, two tickets […]
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