Debra Burdick
LCSW
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Mindfulness , ADHD, Stress, Healing Expert
Debra Burdick Quick Facts
- Main Areas
- Mindfulness, Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
- Best Sellers
- Mindfulness Skills Workbook for Clinicians and Clients, Mindfulness Skills for Kids and Teens: A Workbook for Clinicians and Clients, ADHD: Non-medicatio Treatments and Skills for Children and Teens, Mindfulness for Teens with ADHD
- Career Focus
- International expert on Mindfulness and ADHD. Award winning, best selling Author, Speaker, Business owner
Debra Burdick, LCSW, also known as ‘The Brain Lady’, is an award-winning, best-selling author of 5 books and a card deck. She recently retired from her 25 year private psychotherapy practice to slow down and continue writing. Debra specializes in mindfulness, ADHD, healing, depression, anxiety, stress, and sleep. Throughout her career she has been a pioneer in creating and teaching mindfulness skills to improve mental health. Debra originally created and used these skills personally to deal with her own chronic illness (thankfully healed). Her healing journey included learning to meditate and opening up to receiving spirit messages. Her latest published work is a digital card deck, Radical Self-Care When You Are Ill. 52 Skills and Affirmations to Help You Restore Your Physical, Emotional and Spiritual Well-Being. You can sign up for her free newsletter and learn more about her books, card deck, audio meditations and excellent resources at www.TheBrainLady.com.
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Debra Burdick Audio & Video Programs
Mindfulness Toolkit CD/mp3
http://www.thebrainlady.com/mindfulness-toolkit.html
Mindfulness Toolkit for Kids CD/mp3
http://thebrainlady.com/products/cds/mindfulness-toolkit-for-kids-mp3/
100 Brain-changing Mindfulness Strategies to Integrate Into Clinical Practice - Workshop
https://www.pesi.com/store/detail/17223/100-brain-changing-mindfulness-techniques-to-integrate
Mindfulness Toolkit for Kids and Teens - Workshop
https://www.pesi.com/store/detail/6949/mindfulness-toolkit-for-kids-and-teens-skills-to-teach
Childhood ADHD: Non-medicatio Treatment and Strategies that Change the Brain
https://www.pesi.com/store/detail/9722/childhood-adhd-advanced-non-drug-treatments-and-strategies
Meditations for Concentration
http://www.thebrainlady.com/meditations-for-concentration.html
Debra Burdick Books
Mindfulness Skills Workbook fo Clinicians and Clients
http://thebrainlady.com/products/mindfulness-skills-workbook-for-clinicians-and-clients/
Mindfulness Skills for Kids and Teens
http://thebrainlady.com/mindfulness-skills-for-kids-teens/
ADHD: Non-Medication Treatments and Skills for Children and Teens
http://thebrainlady.com/products/adhd-non-medication-treatments-skills-for-children-and-teens/
Mindfulness for Teens with ADHD
https://www.amazon.com/Mindfulness-Teens-ADHD-Skill-Building-Workbook/dp/162625625X/ref=sr_tnr_p_1_13922511011_1_twi_pap_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1490311123&sr=8-1&keywords=mindfulness+for+teens+with+adhd
Mindfulness for Kids with ADHD
https://thebrainlady.com/mindfulness-for-kids-with-adhd/
Mindfulness Skills for Kids Card Deck
https://thebrainlady.com/products/mindfulness-skills-for-kids-card-deck-and-3-card-games/
ADHD and SLEEP. CHILDREN and ADULTS Sleep Better Tonight!
http://www.thebrainlady.com/ADHDandSleepBook.html
Special Report: My Five Proven Secrets For Overcoming Depression and Anxiety
http://thebrainlady.com/fiveprovensecrets.html
Radical Self-Care When You Are Ill.
https://thebrainlady.com/radical-self-care-when-you-are-ill/
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Are You Sleeping? Is it ADHD, Depression, Anxiety, or a Sleep Disorder?
Do you or your child toss and turn at night and experience daytime sleepiness? Have you or your child been diagnosed with ADHD, depression, or anxiety. Fifty percent of children in a recent study that had been diagnosed with ADHD had difficulty sleeping. They felt tired on awakening, had nightmares, sleep apnea, restless leg syndrome, trouble getting up in the morning, and significant daytime sleepiness. And stimulant medications further impaired their ability to sleep.
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Secrets to a Stress Free Life
Life is full of stressors. I once heard Norman Vincent Peale say that the only people without problems and stress were 'all those people buried over there in that cemetery'. He was right. If we are alive, we have plenty of triggers for stress. But it's how we choose to respond to something that determines how stressful it is to us. It's important to pay attention to your stress level. Being chronically stressed is deadly! Here are eleven great ways to lead a more stress free life.
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Intuition 101: How Everyone From Parents to Entrepreneurs Can Use it
Have you ever had a 'gut' feel about something and found out later it was completely accurate? I have become fascinated by our ability to 'know' things without any real knowledge about them. Does this ability come from our brain or some way of 'knowing' that we don't yet fully understand? Researchers are working to unravel this mystery.
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Why You (and your kids) Need to Get Outside and Play
Getting outside to play provides the double benefits of both exercise and being outdoors. I recently went for a 22 mile ride on a bike path in Rhode Island. There were lots of people out walking, bike riding, flying kites, playing ball, and picnicking. These people were not only having fun and improving muscles strength and cardiac health, but they were also improving their brain health, their mood, their sleep, their concentration, and their hyperactivity. EXERCISEr
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It Works! Why You Should Try Neurofeedback
In 1999 I added Neurofeedback Training to my psychotherapy practice and have been using it ever since to help clients improve how their brain regulates itself so they feel better, think better, and perform at their peak. I have helped my clients improve: depression, anxiety, panic attacks, sleep, ability to concentrate and sit still, grades, behavior, memory, ability to plan and organize, pain, migraines and much more. These are all symptoms of a brain that is not well regulated. I healed myself of Fibromyalgia and got my daughter off stimulant medications taken for ADHD. I know it works!
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May I Have Your Attention Please?
The other day, as I waited for the elevator in my office building, I noticed a young mother sitting on the bench in the lobby. Her tiny baby was snuggled in a baby carrier on the floor and her two year old girl was busy trying to get on the elevator with me. The mom was hunched over, phone in hand, text messaging or emailing, or whatever else she might have been doing from her phone. Meanwhile, she essentially ignored her two kids. They may as well have been invisible to her as she was completely focused on her phone.
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Can You Change the Way You Look At Things?
I am always amazed at how two people can look at the same thing and see completely different things. Maybe it goes back to the glass half empty, glass half full concept. Or maybe it's has to do with how we choose to see things. Wayne Dyer frequently discusses the statement 'If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change'. He states that in order to change things we need to change the way we look at things.
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Parents: Eight Things Your Child Needs From You
I often coach parents to ask themselves, ‘what does my child need from me right now’? When your child talks back, what do they need from you? When they have trouble falling asleep, what do they need from you? When they are feeling hurt and rejected by peers, what do they need from you? Use the following guidelines to answer these questions for yourself. 1) Unconditional Lover
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5 Steps to Your Best Year Yet
It is always exciting to see how current brain research and brain imaging techniques prove why psychological and spiritual techniques work in our lives. It turns out that our brains don’t really know the difference between whether something is actually happening in our lives or whether we are only imagining it in our minds. When athletes are hooked up to brain monitoring equipment and asked to imagine they are performing their sport, their brainwaves fire the same as if they were actually doing their sport.
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It’s Your Brain: Are You Protecting It?
Protecting your brain is an extremely important component of optimum brain fitness. Damage can occur in a variety of ways including obvious ones like accidents and illness. But be wary of those cleaning products and even cosmetics that we expose ourselves and our children to on a routine basis. Just think how your bathroom smells after a shower or a cleaning. Many of those fragrances and chemicals act as neurotoxins to our brain. One author calls this ‘chemical brain injury’. Do WHATEVER YOU CAN TO AVOID the following threats to your brain.
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The Truth About Adult ADHD
Adults with ADHD have trouble concentrating, struggle with organization, lose things, forget things, feel restless, and make impulsive decisions. These are all the same symptoms that children with ADHD experience. But ADHD impacts adult lives in some very specific ways. There are a number of patterns commonly seen in adults with ADHD. These patterns are not listed in the official diagnostic criteria for ADHD but they occur often enough that they should be explored to help in making an accurate diagnosis. They are signs of how ADHD impacts a person's life.
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Rest for the Weary
If you are like most people these days, your life is full of things that need to be done. No matter how much you do, there is always more to be done. There are chores around the house and yard, cooking and cleaning, chauffeuring the kids to their activities, helping them get their homework done, going to work, and on and on. Even friends who are retired tell me they are so busy they wonder how they ever had time to work. So how do you take care of yourself and rest?
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Favorite Quotes & Thoughts from Debra Burdick
Practicing mindfulness has given me a new life. Find out how here.
Mindfulness is a powerful way to rewire the brain into healthier and more helpful patterns. The research shows it changes the brain's electrical activity, blood flow and structure. I teach brain-changing mindfulness skills that help with most mental health disorders including depression anxiety, ADHD, bipolar disorder, PTSD plus pain, stress, sleep, healing and more.
Visit www.TheBrainLady.com for free video training as well as books, CDs, mp3s and workshops that provide CEUs.
Contacting Debra Burdick
22946 Lone Oak Dr
860.460.6899
deb@TheBrai Lady.com
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For more information about Mindfulness and/or ADHD visit: http://www.TheBrainLady.com