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Hitting Snooze: A Wake-Up Call to Recognize Sleep’s Vital Role in Therapy
By our very own Jeff Kashou, LMFT! Originally printed in the Nov/Dec issue of The Therapist, Magazine of the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists. Since one-third of a person’s life is meant for sleep, are we as mental health providers treating it with the respect that it deserves in our practice with clients?
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What does depression look like, and what can I do about it?
October is Depression Awareness Month. According to the American Psychiatric Association (APA), depression causes feelings of sadness and/or a loss of interest in activities you once enjoyed. It can lead to a variety of emotional and physical problems and can decrease your ability to function at work and at home. Symptoms last at least two
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Meet our clinical product director on Sleep is a Skill Podcast!
Dr. Victoria Bangieva, our incredible clinical product director, appears on Sleep is a Skill Podcast to talk about sleep health—and Sleepbot. She’s interviewed by Mollie Eastman, the Founder of Sleep Is a Skill and passionate insomnia survivor who helps people optimize their sleep through their data and her own hard-earned wisdom. How it all began
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Rayni Collins: Moving for a better today to sleep for a better tomorrow
We all know how essential sleep is for our overall health. And we at docbotic talk ceaselessly about how CBT-i is the gold standard treatment if insomnia prevents you from getting enough. But what about dance? In our recently published interview with Rayni Collins, an experienced sleep and movement therapist, we delve into the fascinating
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Sleep expert Dr. Silverman answers your questions!
Our very own Dasha Geller recently sat down with Dr. Sarah Silverman, a holistic sleep expert and friend of docbotic, to answer your sleep questions. We love Dr. Silverman for her focus in long-term sleep health, her advocacy for the oft-ignored issue of women’s sleep health, and for generally being an amazing human being! In
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The key to change? Acceptance.
While there are many definitions for “acceptance,” in Zen or other contemplative practices, acceptance is acknowledging reality as it is. In essence, to accept something means to stop resisting or stop actively trying to change reality. So how would acceptance facilitate goal oriented behavior? To be honest, acceptance is the antithesis of change; therefore, it
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