The Columbine Health Systems Center for Healthy Aging in partnership with CSU Extension and Senior Access Points of Larimer County held a series of COVID-19 Expert Panel webinars. The series was created to help provide clarity on public health recommendations as the coronavirus pandemic evolves. Panelists include CSU faculty experts in gerontology, infectious disease, biosafety, […]
How to Change Your Brain for the Good
Capacity of Your Brain While we have the ability to be calm, contented and centered, our overactive brain can prevent us from being present. The constant chatter we experience can be referred to as “monkey mind.” Unless we are aware of our monkey mind, we can be easily swept away by our thoughts, emotions and […]
The Gift of Self-Compassion
We can be extremely hard on ourselves! Our tendency towards being chronically self-critical has been called the “trance of unworthiness.” In Tara Brach’s, Ph.D., article, “Awakening From the Trance of Unworthiness,” she argues that this is not just a personal experience but a societal epidemic of feeling unworthy and deficient. At an early age we […]
