The Lighter Side of Transformation

with Lisa Wessan, LICSW

May 31

Food as Medicine: Fun to grow Broccoli Sprouts!

by Lisa Wessan, LICSW

In the spirit of “Good Food, Good Mood,” and Food As Medicine (FAM)…Broccoli Sprouts are in the top 1% of super foods you want to enter your body on a regular basis. (you can watch the 5 minute video here, Food As Medicine: Fun to grow Broccoli Sprouts, a Super Food! )

FUN FACT: Broccoli sprouts are known for their exceptionally high concentration of sulforaphane. This potent antioxidant has multiple health benefits. These benefits include reducing inflammation, boosting your immune system, and enhancing your cognitive ability, memory, and reaction times, plus more. Sulforaphane is a sulfur-containing compound naturally found in broccoli and other cruciferous vegetables, but its concentration is significantly higher in sprouts.

🌀🌀 Based on these three academic sources below, Broccoli Sprouts have the most sulforaphane of all the cruciferous vegetables.

Sources:
1. Life Force by Tony Robbins (2022), https://amzn.to/3FguHik

2. Lifespan: Why We Age – and Why We Don’t Have To, by David Sinclair ( 2019) https://amzn.to/43Em5tF

3. How Not to Die: Discover the Foods Scientifically Proven to Prevent and Reverse Disease, by Michael Greger (2015), https://amzn.to/3Suw4wM

🌀🌀 As promised, here’s the link for buying your very own sprout maker:

Deluxe Kitchen Crop Seed Sprouter with 4 Growing Trays, https://amzn.to/3Hl37Rn

and Broccoli Sprouting & Microgreens Seeds -1lb – Organic, Non-GMO, Heirloom Sprout Seeds, https://amzn.to/4ki4ted

Good health is WEALTH, go for itđź’™

Good Food, Good Mood Longevity resilience Weight management

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Jan 30

Effective Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT): Open Enrollment Now

by Lisa Wessan, LICSW
 
“Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.” ~ Viktor E. Frankl

 

I am delighted to announce that the next virtual 14-week Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills (DBT) Group will be meeting on Tuesday evenings, 7:30 – 9 PM EST, February 18 – May 20, 2025.  We will be covering both the Mindfulness and Emotion Regulation modules.  (This is an ongoing group that has open enrollment periods three times per year.)

[If you would like to receive a copy of the full 14-week curriculum, please request one HERE. (This is a NO-SPAM Zone, so your email will not be added to any list unless you request it.]

The Mindfulness material includes:

  • Learning how to be a good observer, describing your feelings, participating more fully in life
  • How to become non-judgmental of yourself and others
  • Staying in the present moment with more ease
  • Practicing being effective for the greater good of your family, workplace, community
  • Accessing Wise Mind (aka higher self, higher consciousness)
  • Understanding Reality Acceptance and detaching from negative or critical thoughts.
  • Shifting from Willfulness to Willingness

The Emotion Regulation module has four sections:

  • Understanding and Naming Emotions
  • Changing Emotional Responses
  • Reducing Vulnerability to Emotion Mind (your highly reactive and difficult emotions)
  • Managing Extremely Difficult Emotions

As DBT founder Dr. Marsha Linehan says, “It is difficult to manage your emotions when you do not understand how emotions work. Knowledge is power.”

GROUP ATMOSPHERE: My students are well mannered, high functioning and convivial.  For those who occasionally tend to demand more attention, want to give inappropriate feedback and/or act out in any way, I do have a strong “Respectful Communication Policy” in place and several useful group rules which help to maintain a safe, harmonious and cohesive group atmosphere.  All are welcome, but there is no allowance for rude or harsh behavior.

Group members will continue to process their unresolved traumas in their individual therapy, not in this group. This is a therapeutic psychoeducation program. (It is NOT group therapy.)

For dates, fees, videos and more details, please visit
Dialectical Behavioral Therapy | Lisa Wessan

May this serve you or your loved ones well in their journey towards wholeness and more inner peace.

Onward and Upward🌀

Lisa Wessan

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