Johnson blogs about Dan Hughes’s talk on “Intersubjective Mindfulness,” Hughes’s approach to dealing with highly traumatized people in therapy. The therapeutic tools he uses allow him to connect more deeply with his patients, and elicit from them the emotional werewithal to make pretty significant breakthroughs. The tools include modulating his voice in therapy to mimic, or match, the “experience” of the patient, which shows the patient that the therapist is open, curious and non-judgmentally accepting of his or her experience....

If you want to go the same route, get to watching those YouTube tutorials to perfect your Halloween makeup and stick to this simple and spooky Halloween hair idea: ** With a face full of paint and a coordinating outfit to match, leaving your hair down in loose waves is a totally legitimate option. Alternatively, you can opt for an all-black outfit that blends into the night and really puts the focus on your face....

Therefore, it’s safe to say that we can only hope to stretch our hairstyles out for as long as possible and get a “bang for our buck.” If you’re like me, then you sometimes struggle to maintain protective styling for long periods of time. Or sometimes, you have to keep in a protective style a little longer than anticipated, and you look for ways to keep the style looking fresh....

“We will provide a great service if we can help teachers apply mindfulness to their emotions in the intense classroom environment,” said Patricia Jennings, director of the Garrison Institute’s Initiative on Contemplation and Education and a research associate in the Prevention Research Center at Pennsylvania State University. “If teachers can notice the emotion within their body, they can stop and make choices. Instead of seeing children with challenging behavior as problems, they can experience them as suffering human beings who need compassion....

** If you’re thinking about taking the plunge and getting choppy layers, here are 15 ways you can wear the look: 1. Baby Beehive Why not play with your layers and create a baby beehive? Those long layers can be teased into perfection, just remember to be gentle! This is the perfect second day hairstyle, your hair will have some extra hold to maintain the volume of this look....