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A FEW days ago, I took an online course about neuroplasticity and the ways we can teach our brains to build new connections that break old habits and thinking patterns. I learned we can build traits like kindness as if they are muscles, in order to become new and better people.
I had been inspired by Little Treatments, Big Effects, a new book by Jessica Schleider, the founding director of the Lab for Scalable Mental Health at Northwestern University, Illinois. She reviews a huge volume of research showing that “single-session interventions” (SSIs) can produce important turning points in people’s mental health, reducing symptoms of depression,…
