Learning to unlearn negative thoughts and behaviours

Thomas Verny is a clinical psychiatrist, academic, award-winning author, public speaker, poet and podcaster. He is the author of eight books, including the global bestseller The Secret Life of the Unborn Child and 2021’s The Embodied Mind: Understanding the Mysteries of Cellular Memory, Consciousness and Our Bodies.

As you may recall, last month in this column I wrote about a variety of insight-oriented therapies. Today, we find ourselves four weeks post Halloween and exactly four weeks before Boxing Day. A good time to check out therapies that are focused on here-and-now behaviour and symptom relief (too much candy?).