Heather Krantz, MD
Heather Krantz is an obstetrician-gynecologist and can be reached at HeatherKrantzMD.com.
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An excerpt from Mind Bubbles: Exploring mindfulness with kids. I am not a pediatrician. My training as an OB/GYN taught me to care for mothers-to-be and bring their babies safely into the world—and then hand them over to the waiting…
An excerpt from Mind Bubbles: Exploring mindfulness with kids.
I am not a pediatrician. My training as an OB/GYN taught me to care for mothers-to-be and bring their babies safely into the world—and then hand them over to the waiting pediatrician. I am also a mom and mindfulness teacher, however, and have thought long and hard over recent years about when the optimal time is to start teaching mindfulness. …
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Mindfulness training should start as soon as kids can grasp the concept
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Mindfulness and meditation. Meditation and mindfulness. Allow me to elaborate. I went to medical school in the 1980s. Nobody talked about complementary and alternative approaches to healthcare or mind-body medicine. It wasn’t because we students thought it was weird; it…
Mindfulness and meditation. Meditation and mindfulness. Allow me to elaborate.
I went to medical school in the 1980s. Nobody talked about complementary and alternative approaches to healthcare or mind-body medicine. It wasn’t because we students thought it was weird; it wasn’t even on our collective radar screen. It was, however, out there even then. Andrew Weil was busy in his movement toward integrative medicine, and Jon Kabat-Zinn was pioneering his Mindfulness-Based …
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Teach mindfulness in medical school
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Self-compassion. Perhaps this sounds like a contradiction in terms. Compassion is expressed for others, not oneself. Compassion, as defined by the Merriam-Webster dictionary, is the “sympathetic consciousness of others’ distress with a desire to alleviate it.” Compassion is about allowing…
Self-compassion. Perhaps this sounds like a contradiction in terms. Compassion is expressed for others, not oneself.
Compassion, as defined by the Merriam-Webster dictionary, is the “sympathetic consciousness of others’ distress with a desire to alleviate it.” Compassion is about allowing oneself to be with the emotional discomfort of someone else’s suffering with the hope of lessening it. Health care personnel do this every day.
It is part of being human to have …
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Here’s why you need to find compassion for yourself
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