Mindfully Healing

Katherine Borud, MA Katherine has clinical expertise working with children, adolescents, individuals, couples and families with issues related to anxiety, life transitions, self-esteem, and family or relational conflict. She will be practicing out of our location. If you are interested…

Half of Americans use a drink linked to depression on any given day. Drinking soda — especially diet drinks — is linked to an increased risk of depression, a study finds. However, drinks like coffee and tea — without artificial sweeteners — actually reduce the risk of depression slightly, the study also found. The conclusions come from an analysis of 263,925 people aged 50 to 71-years-old who were followed over a decade. Those who drank over four cans of soda per day were 30% more likely to be depressed than

Simple procedure enhances flexible thinking and shakes off old ideas. Simply washing your hands could be enough to help let go of old ideas, new research finds. A team of psychologists at the University of Toronto has found that cleaning your hands is enough to leave behind old goals and allow you to pursue new ones. For the study people were ‘primed’ with a goal. Priming involves unconsciously activating a goal in someone’s mind. The results showed that when people subsequently wiped their hands, they forgot about this unconscious goal.