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Mindfulness for Mental Health Professionals (and others)
Mindfulness is a broad term that refers to any practice of non-reactive participation, intentional cultivation of awareness, and paying attention to the moment as well as bringing oneself into each moment as fully as possible. It is a simple yet many-layered and...
Wise Mind for the Distracted Mind: DBT for Adult ADHD
Attention Deficit Hyper Activity Disorder (ADHD) is a commonly controversial and misunderstood disorder in the mental health world. One that many don't take seriously, even among medical and mental health professionals. The name itself, as argued by Russell Barkley,...
Wise Mind, Wise Marriage
Couples therapy is often prompted by a rupture, or ruptures, in connectedness, a breach in the relationship. Anything from a slow drift into parallel lives to active hostilities during heated arguments. These ruptures, whatever their nature, manifest wounds in the...
Wise Mind for the Distracted Mind: DBT for ADHD
Wise Mind for the Distracted Mind is an evolving project that involves the cultivation of a careful modification of Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) principles, structures, and skills to help ADHD diagnosed adults better address significant areas of struggle such as...
Attention: The Way to Love
“Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.” — Simone Weil I began learning and training in Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) in the late 90s, at what was once known as the Portland DBT Program, and now is the Portland DBT Institute. This was an...
Wise Mind vs. Tyranny of the Urgent
I have recently been re-reading the works of the renowned organizational and personal leadership teacher, Stephen Covey. It must have been twenty years ago, maybe more, that I first encountered his books on leadership and personal change. As I re-read Covey, I linger...
Year of Clarity
A continued Happy New Year to all of you, even now on this "leap day" of February 2020! 2020 is upon us and many of us are already suffering the attrition of willpower to continue with our New Year resolutions we so fervently sounded out at the stroke of midnight,...
Be a Better Parent than Your Parents
"We are all born with the capacity for love and care, and many of us have had to learn to adapt to a life with suboptimal attachment. It's never too late to reflect on what may have gone on in our own lives and then begin the repair process in our self-understanding...
Meet Scott
Scott Spradlin, LPC, LMAC, is a licensed therapist, educator, author, consultant and media developer based in Wichita, Kansas. He provides DBT, mindfulness-based therapy and Christian counseling services to adults, teens, families and couples. The only therapist in...
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