From the Desk of Jennifer Wolkin, PhD:
Welcome to BrainCurves™, my blog and online mind-body-brain wellness community.
Since as far back as I can remember writing has been a tool I’ve used in order to connect both more deeply with my innermost self, and to others. Today I enjoy writing for the greater purpose of sharing my love of teaching the science of whole-body wellness.
Through my writing, I seek to connect with you so that we may support one another and learn together how to embrace all aspects of who we are. From the unique neural tracts curving through our brains, to the unique curves of our bodies – no matter what our background, shape, or size.
I’ve found, both personally and professionally, that a key element in living our best lives is finding a like-minded community in which we can support one another through healing thoughts, words, and ideas.
Please join me by commenting, sharing, and adding your voice. I welcome your questions, feedback, and invite you to truly make BrainCurves your own.
I hope you enjoy my musings about the mind-body-brain approach to living your best life. Together, let’s embrace all of our curves, be brainspired, and go from surviving to thriving!
Repost: How Mindfulness Impacts Well-being
I am so grateful that my review regarding the mechanisms behind mindfulness's positive impact upon psychological well-being was recently published by Dove Medical Press (with a video included!) The following blog post is based off that review. Let's Thrive! - Dr....
Repost: I Looked Pregnant…but it was SIBO
I've been writing recently about the profound connection between the brain and our gut! Most of my writing was intellectual, sometimes metaphorical, maybe a bit poetic, and also humbly instructional (i.e., the way mindful eating fosters health vis a vis this...
Repost: Mindful Eating for a Healthier Brain-Gut Connection
This blog post originally appeared on Mindful.Org Two weeks ago, I wrote an introductory article about the gut-brain connection. The main idea conveyed was that having a gut-instinct is more than a figure of speech—our gut and brain really are in a constant dialogue,...
Repost: Meet Your Second Brain: The Gut
This blog post originally appeared on Mindful.Org Most of us can relate to the experience of having butterflies in our stomach, or to a visceral gut-wrenching feeling, and how often are we told not to ignore our “gut-instinct” or “gut-feeling” when making a decision....
Repost: Inner and Outer Decluttering: Feng Shui the Grey
This blog post originally appeared, in an adapted form, on Mindful.Org I don’t know about you, but I feel so much better when my environment is neat and organized. After a long day of work, coming home to a neat space is like coming home to myself. It is a refuge,...
Repost: Debunking Fibromyalgia as Just in Your Head. The Real Truth.
This blog post originally appeared on Further Food. Fibromyalgia consists of a complex array of symptoms, which include widespread muscle and joint pain along with overwhelming fatigue. It is often a diagnosis with higher prevalence rates in women and has been...
Repost: How the Brain Changes When You Meditate
This blog post originally appeared on Mindful.Org Not too long ago, most of us thought that the brain we’re born with is static—that after a certain age, the neural circuitry cards we’re dealt are the only ones we can play long-term. Fast-forward a decade or two, and...
Fear as Fuel: Don’t LOOSE it. USE it!
At the end of each new intake evaluation I always ask my patients to delineate one to three concrete goals for their work in therapy. Many of them don’t even have to give it any thought, and immediately and confidently say: “I want to lose this sense of my fear, and...
‘Inside Out’ Goes All Out!
New E-motion picture teaches us to embrace all of our emotions I recently had the opportunity to see Disney Pixar’s latest animated feature, ‘Inside Out’. I didn’t need much prompting, given that it IS a movie about feelings, and well, as a psychologist, it was an...
PTSD and Treatment
PTSD AND TREATMENT PTSD’s overall impact depends on the severity of the disorder, associated co-morbidity (i.e., substance abuse, mTBI, chronic pain), the duration of the disorder, and of course the individual sufferer’s predisposing neural, genetic, and psychological...