Scott Spradlin Wise Mind, Wise Life

Thanks to Frankl via Inspire Somatic Life Coaching. :-)

That small but mighty space….

I'm looking forward to speaking at the preconference on October 2nd. I will present on Building a Life Worth Living with Dr. Jessica Provines.

Rikki Barton is this year's conference closing keynote speaker. We're so excited to hear her presentation "Tokens are for Arcades: Engaging Youth in a Meaningful and Purposeful Way" 🤩🌾

Tomorrow, session 5 of DBT Immersive training for . We're getting into emotion regulation.





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Willingness gets you a long way. Be mindful out there. :-)

DBT skills a lil treat I made for myself

Every time I board a flight, the possibility of a crash exists, but the odds against it are enormous.

Happy Labor Day, American. Our offices will be closed during the holiday. May you be loved, well-fed, and rested. :-)

I'm glad to see this practice enacted at Trinity Academy, providing kids with more space for attention and presence within their embodied spaces.

Trinity Academy restricts access to cell phones with locked bags Trinity Academy is now a phone-free zone for students in grades 8-12. They must use lockable magnetic pouches provided by the school to store their cell phones, earbuds, and smartwatches while on campus.

Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) is available across Kansas via telehealth with Wichita DBT at NorthStar Therapy. DBT intensively trained therapists provide adherent comprehensive DBT to help persons who struggle with emotion dysregulation and impulsivity.

Wichita DBT also offers DBT-informed services for adult ADHD, men, and faith-integrated DBT for Christian clients. For more information, call 316.260.1127.

And excellent and friendly guide to social media use. :-)

Do you struggle with your relationship to social media? Try asking yourself these questions and sitting with your answers. Ask wise mind: who am I posting this for? am I happy with my account? do I feel any pressure? do I dread logging on?

We don't all have to be influencers! Oftentimes interacting with our little curated community is satisfying enough.

“Toward Meanings Beyond What Words Can Hold”: An Interview with Jane Hirshfield By Yongbo Ma   Yongbo Ma: What first inspired you to write poetry? What stages have your poetry gone through? What are the main poetic philosophies or ideas driving each of these stages? Jane …

Relevant story on getting mental health care with therapists and the state of insurances.

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Finding a therapist who takes your insurance can be nearly impossible. Here's why Getting mental health care covered by insurance can be really tough. Reporters spoke to hundreds of therapists who left their insurance networks to find out why.

Moving into the advanced years I appreciate this from Sharon Salzberg .

While the difficult parts of aging are unavoidable, we can try not to add to them. For example, I have seen, throughout my life, the tendency to rehearse some catastrophe and thereby live it several times. So I think the first question is always, “What are we adding onto a situation which is already hard enough?”

Not being able to do something I used to be able to do, or being in physical pain, or losing people we love – these are already very hard. But we often add more suffering onto them, like thinking it shouldn’t be this way, or feeling shame or fear. One possibility of mindfulness is to notice where we’re adding to the suffering that’s already there, and try not to fall so much into it.

I learned an interesting form of lovingkindness meditation from Ananda Matteya, then an energetic, 94-year-old Sri Lankan monk visiting the Insight Meditation Society in 1993. He taught us what he described as his favorite meditation: combining loving-kindness meditation and a body scan. He would go through the body, part by part, wishing each part well: may my head be happy, may my eyes be happy, and so on through the whole body. Even “may my liver be happy!”

I’ve taught that meditation to people with injuries, scars, diseases, difficult diagnoses, and all kinds of things, and it makes a difference. It can help counteract our tendency to add shame or resentment to whatever is already there.

And lots of reinforcement! Thanks for the wisdom, Seventh Direction Inc .

“Love is the only way to grasp another human being in the innermost core of his personality. No one can become fully aware of the very essence of another human being unless he loves him. By his love he is enabled to see the essential traits and features in the beloved person; and even more, he sees that which is potential in him, which is not yet actualized but yet ought to be actualized. Furthermore, by his love, the loving person enables the beloved person to actualize these potentialities. By making him aware of what he can be and of what he should become, he makes these potentialities come true.”

Viktor E. Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning

Be mindful out there.

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WELCOME HOME! ⚾ Wichita photographer Christopher Clark took this photo of the new Jackie Robinson statue as the sun was setting Tuesday night.

📸: League 42 / Christopher Clark

Happy week to friends and followers from us here in Kansas. May you be bright, joyful, and mindful.

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Remember the best way to learn is to practice and embody the skills, which is "putting skin on the practices" daily as you commit to building a life worth living. Practice! Practice! Practice!

I'm trying out my new Old Man look.

Whimsy! Because Space Monkey drives a car. 🙈🙃 Today, let yourself play a bit. Create, experiment, tell a joke, and laugh with others rather than at them. Works your ABCs. Be mindful and receptive to joy, beauty, and humor.

It isn't always about you, and that's OK. :-)

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“It is not death that one should fear, but never beginning to live.” ~Marcus Aurelius.

Thank you, Kansas colleagues and friends, for supporting Wichita DBT at NorthStar Therapy.

More recently, I'm sending thanks on our behalf to Mirror, Inc. and Jason Greever for allowing us to train the Mirror, Inc teams across Kansas in a collaborative immersive DBT training program covering the basic paradigms of DBT, stages of treatment, behavioral target hierarchies, protocols, and behavioral strategies, etc., to empower the teams and the communities they serve. It is a labor of love. One of ten sessions down. Nine more to go!

Be mindful out there!

When you feel unmotivated and avoidant, stand up and move about your home deliberately. Put on some shoes and go for a walk. Or go barefoot if you can and connect your body with the outdoors, head, shoulders, knees, and toes. Movement is what moves you. Movement motivates! This is opposite action.

Yesterday, following a few technical challenges, I had the privilege and honor of beginning the first in a series of immersive DBT training sessions with the hardworking and welcoming teams from Mirror, Inc. We engaged in an introduction to DBT and the paradigms of acceptance, change, and dialectics, as well as DBT hierarchies, stages, modes, and functions of DBT. We resume in two weeks as we work our way into and through the Fall. Thanks to Jason Greeverfor facilitating this collaboration with Wichita DBT and NorthStar Therapy!

Only nine more sessions to go! :-)

To all, Happy Independence Day!

Offices reopen on Monday, July 8th.

continues the development of adherent DBT services as well as Wise Mind for the Distracted Mind: DBT for Adult ADHD which is also in process of becoming a a workbook. Stay tuned, and be mindful out there.

Adult ADHD is challenging in several ways, starting with attention per se. ADHD adults can increase their attentional regulation and self-awareness with DBT core mindfulness practices. This becomes the foundation for emotion and behavior regulation and living effectively toward life worth living goals. ADHD does not make life impossible to navigate, especially with the proper skills. Scott Spradlin Wise Mind, Wise Life

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Thanks for the reminder, Pascale Palazzo .

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