How to Keep a New Year’s Resolution
Andrea Brandt2019-03-11T13:44:28-08:00There are many reasons why it’s hard to keep a New Year’s resolution, and why over 50 percent of them fail. Many of us make goals that [...]
How to Stop Feeling Shame
Andrea Brandt2019-03-11T13:40:21-08:00Shame is one of the hardest emotions to talk about. It can also be the hardest emotion to recognize in ourselves, and it can feel the most [...]
Silence Negative Self-Talk In Just 5 Minutes a Day
Andrea Brandt2019-03-11T13:36:03-08:00Your pattern and style of self-talk most likely originate from the way your parents or caregivers spoke to and treated you. If your mother was overly critical, [...]
The Gifts of Loss
Andrea Brandt2018-10-12T08:03:06-08:00We’re talking about death and other losses. Sounds fun, right? Well, actually…our return guest, Dr. Andrea Brandt says death is really just a good way to get [...]
How Reactive Behavior Damages Your Relationships
Andrea Brandt2019-03-11T13:28:13-08:00When you’re reactive, your feelings depend on external events outside your influence or control. Whether you have a good or bad day depends entirely on what happens [...]
Learn Empathy in Just 5 Steps
Andrea Brandt2019-03-11T12:09:48-08:00Your relationship with others determines much of your happiness and success in life. How you get along with coworkers, bosses, family, friends, and romantic partners often depends [...]
Coping with Loss as We Age
Andrea Brandt2018-08-22T11:51:09-08:00One inevitable feature of life is coping with life as we age. Some losses are minor; some are massive. We lose physical characteristics, abilities, and loved ones—our [...]
The Surrender with Grace Interview Series
Andrea Brandt2018-08-03T13:19:37-08:00Andrea 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 [...]
Science Proves That Gratitude Is Key to Well-Being
Andrea Brandt2019-03-11T12:06:10-08:00“Building the best life does not require fealty to feelings in the name of authenticity, but rather rebelling against negative impulses and acting right even when we [...]
Why Boundaries Are Necessary for a Healthy Relationship
Andrea Brandt2019-02-05T09:03:42-08:00“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 [...]
How to Age Fearlessly
Andrea Brandt2019-03-11T12:00:39-08:00Emotions like fear are part of our human survival wiring. They compel us to act. When something scares us, we switch into autopilot safety/survival mode. Even what [...]
Learning to Identify When It’s Anxiety, and When It’s Not
Andrea Brandt2019-03-11T11:55:03-08:00Anxiety is a tricky emotion. What might at first feel like anxiousness can, on more in-depth exploration, turn out to be a different emotion entirely. And what [...]
4 Ways to Be Kinder to Yourself and Build Self-Empathy
Andrea Brandt2019-08-16T13:00:52-08:00“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 Brandt2018-05-14T14:19:08-08:00How 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 Brandt2018-05-23T12:53:41-08:00Many 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 Brandt2018-04-10T11:07:13-08:00Trauma 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 Brandt2018-06-22T12:14:10-08:00Every 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 Brandt2018-03-05T11:15:30-08:00Dr. 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 Brandt2018-05-14T14:02:32-08:00You 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 Brandt2018-02-26T11:55:26-08:00Living 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 Brandt2018-05-22T09:56:09-08:00Living 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 Brandt2018-02-16T12:07:35-08:00What 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 Brandt2018-02-09T13:37:44-08:00“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 Brandt2018-02-09T11:46:28-08:00In 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 Brandt2018-02-09T10:37:25-08:0050…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 Brandt2018-02-14T15:11:19-08:00Technically, 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 Brandt2018-01-30T11:29:32-08:00Typically, 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 Brandt2018-01-15T13:22:17-08:00A 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 Brandt2018-05-22T09:20:39-08:00“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 Brandt2018-01-10T12:33:53-08:00PODCAST - 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 [...]