The Surrender with Grace Interview Series
Andrea Brandt 2018-08-03T13:19:37+00:00Andrea Brandt shares with us the story of how she started out alone and yet embraced the courage to reach out for help from a therapist… and [...]
Why Boundaries Are Necessary for a Healthy Relationship
Andrea Brandt 2018-07-23T13:49:56+00:00“Healthy boundaries” is one of those therapy-tinged phrases that is often used and rarely understood. If you ever find yourself nodding along when a friend suggests you [...]
4 Ways to Be Kinder to Yourself and Build Self-Empathy
Andrea Brandt 2018-05-25T13:16:56+00:00“You are a failure.” “You look ugly today.” “Everyone’s life is better than yours.” Have you ever said these things to a close friend? How about a [...]
Repairing Your Relationship With Your Mother
Andrea Brandt 2018-05-14T14:19:08+00:00How you related to your mother when you were young has a profound impact on your adult relationships—and your relationship with yourself. Repairing your relationship with your [...]
Can People Really Change? Epigenetics, Neuroplasticity, and CBT
Andrea Brandt 2018-05-23T12:53:41+00:00Many of us learned in high school biology class that genetic traits are passed down to us from our parents. We were taught that we have brown, [...]
9 Steps to Heal Childhood Trauma in Adults
Andrea Brandt 2018-04-10T11:07:13+00:00Trauma generates emotions, and unless we process these emotions at the time the trauma occurs, the emotions become stuck in our mind and body. Instead of healing [...]
Tether Points: How Emotional Wounds Keep Us Stuck in the Past
Andrea Brandt 2018-06-22T12:14:10+00:00Every fight follows the same path, or every friendship ends the same way, or one romantic partner blends into the next because they’re all so similar: all [...]
Elders, seniors, or over the hill? No way! Power up and get back into life!
Andrea Brandt 2018-03-05T11:15:30+00:00Dr. Jeanette welcomes Dr. Andrea Brandt, psychotherapist and author of Mindful Aging: Embracing Your Life After 50 to Find Fulfillment, Purpose, and Joy will be sharing how [...]
Are Female Friendships the Key to Happiness in Older Women?
Andrea Brandt 2018-05-14T14:02:32+00:00You support one another during times of major change like marriage, divorce, and retirement; you comfort one another during times of loss; you help one another find [...]
3 Ways Mindfulness Can Help Us as We Age
Andrea Brandt 2018-02-26T11:55:26+00:00Living mindfully means living in a state of awareness. You savor every flavor, admire every sunset, cherish every moment with loved ones—always grounded in the moment instead [...]
3 Ways Mindfulness Can Help Us as We Age
Andrea Brandt 2018-05-22T09:56:09+00:00Living mindfully means living in a state of awareness. You savor every flavor, admire every sunset, cherish every moment with loved ones—always grounded in the moment instead [...]
Mindful Aging with Andrea Brandt on Live Happy
Andrea Brandt 2018-02-16T12:07:35+00:00What you'll learn in this episode: What it means to age with mindfulness How to keep our brains fit as we age Key ways to increase happiness [...]
Everyday Mindfulness PodCast
Andrea Brandt 2018-02-09T13:37:44+00:00“Old” is Relevant — Reclaim the Word “Old” and Reclaim your Longevity Bonus with Special Guest Dr. Andrea Brandt Why is experimentation during aging seldom discussed? Making [...]
2-Questions TV with Susan Barocini
Andrea Brandt 2018-02-09T11:46:28+00:00In today’s episode, Susan talks with Dr. Andrea Brandt, a renowned psychotherapist, speaker, and author of the book, “Mindful Aging: Embracing Your Life After 50 to Find [...]
Mindful Aging Interview with Donna Seebo
Andrea Brandt 2018-02-09T10:37:25+00:0050…a magic number? Perhaps. In generations past fifty was considered old but not anymore. When one thinks about having live a half-century it can be a bit [...]
3 Keys to Enhancing Your Love Life After Retirement
Andrea Brandt 2018-02-14T15:11:19+00:00Technically, retirement means the end of one’s career. But anyone who’s retired or is close to retiring knows that that’s only the half of it. To some, [...]
Mindful Aging Interview with Andrea – Plenty Magazine
Andrea Brandt 2018-01-30T11:29:32+00:00Typically, people approach aging in one of two ways: One, they see getting older as a state of inevitable decline, or, two, they refuse to accept that [...]
Five Ways to Keep Your Brain Fit as You Age
Andrea Brandt 2018-01-15T13:22:17+00:00A psychotherapist on mindful aging and the brain’s life-long plasticity. When it comes to the topic of aging, Dr. Andrea Brandt, Ph.D., MFT has more than just [...]
It’s a Family Thing: When Passive-Aggressiveness Is Passed On
Andrea Brandt 2018-05-22T09:20:39+00:00“I hope I never turn into my mother,” you say. “You sound just like your father,” you’re told. If one or both of your caregivers was passive-aggressive, [...]
Keep it Juicy with Helen Mitternight
Andrea Brandt 2018-01-10T12:33:53+00:00PODCAST - There's good news and bad news. The bad news is…we’re all going to die. The good news? Well, Dr. Andrea Brandt says it’s not about the [...]
How to Live a Regret-Free Life
Andrea Brandt 2018-02-14T15:07:49+00:00What is the difference between a mistake and a learning experience? Perspective. When we see mistakes as learning experiences, regret transforms from a painful emotion into a [...]
9 Health Experts Reveal How They Stick to Their Resolutions
Andrea Brandt 2018-01-30T13:33:08+00:004. Think Beyond Fixing a Problem Set your sights higher than mere solutions to problems, and focus on what you really want, says Andrea Brandt, Ph.D., a [...]
Fearless Fabulous You –
Andrea Brandt 2017-12-22T11:48:28+00:00PODCAST - Three words to live by to stay vibrant and young in spirit: Mindfulness, Passion, and Purpose. World-renowned psychotherapist, Andrea Brant PhD, MFT, author of "Mindful [...]
NetGalley REVIEW
Andrea Brandt 2017-12-20T15:01:41+00:00Book Review - "Aging... it's something we're all doing, yet never talk about. After all, who wants to contemplate their own mortality? This book was a very [...]
Your years beyond middle age can be the most fulfilling …
Andrea Brandt 2017-12-20T15:06:00+00:00BOOK INTERVIEW - How we age after 50 is up to us. Dr. Brandt shares how it can be as fulfilling and joyful as we want it [...]
Realistic Positivity
Andrea Brandt 2017-12-11T10:06:46+00:00BOOK INTERVIEW - Some people seem to be authentically positive—optimistic, uplifting to be around, at peace with themselves—even though they may have, like all of us, lived [...]
7 Steps to Making Love Last in Your Later Years
Andrea Brandt 2017-12-04T15:07:57+00:00There are few things more heart-warming than seeing a sweet-looking couple in their 90s holding hands and laughing together in a park, on an airplane, or standing [...]
A Good Apology Is Hard to Find
Andrea Brandt 2018-02-14T15:05:29+00:00Apologies have been in the news a lot lately — both genuine apologies and refusals to apologize. Every day, women and men come forward to name those [...]
Increasing Happiness After 50
Andrea Brandt 2017-12-11T10:33:37+00:00PODCAST - Don’t let the ominous perception of “aging” – a lack of purpose, feeling irrelevant and under-used, having nothing to do – take control of you [...]
Mindful Aging: Q & A with Dr. Andrea Brandt
Andrea Brandt 2017-11-20T11:22:41+00:00BOOK INTERVIEW - “That we age is inevitable. How we age is largely up to us.” At “77 glorious years old,” psychotherapist, speaker and author, Dr. Andrea [...]