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Accept and Redirect: ADHD and Mindfulness

Accept and Redirect: ADHD and Mindfulness

Distraction Frustration Perhaps you find your head busy with thoughts about the unfairness that you can't have a block of time for yourself. Maybe you begin to judge yourself for not being able to let go of the passing feet and giggles of your children, who were only...

Wise Mind, Wise Marriage

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...

Attention: The Way to Love

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

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

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

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

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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