Why you feel what you feel (health video)

From the TEDx YouTube channel: Understanding why you feel what you feel is one of the most important aspects of human development. After understanding comes control. When you control your emotions through vertical development, you can be more successful and happy.

We’ve all seen adults behave like children and ‘throw their toys out of the pram’ if they don’t get their way. An inability to control emotions prevents us from growing up and becoming mature successful human beings.

Dr. Alan Watkins, founder of Complete Coherence, introduces the key phases of human development and explains why poor emotional control is holding back progress. He asks us to imagine a world where we never have to feel anything we don’t want to feel; where we have complete control of what we feel and when we feel it. Read more

Emotions are Contagious: Spreading Emotional Intelligence (health video)

From the TEDx YouTube channel: In a society where brilliance, degrees, and pedigree reign, there is a uniquely human skill set that many don’t know exists, let alone understand or value: Emotional Intelligence. Joelle Hadley will teach us what EI is, how valuable it can be in helping us show up as our best selves, and inspire us to spread Emotional Intelligence. Joelle Hadley is the founder and president of The Culture Coaches, and she is passionate about creating more positive and productive work places where people love their work and love their lives. Her media and leadership career includes 21 years of marketing, sales, and publishing leadership with American City Business Journals, the nation’s largest publisher of weekly business newspapers. Joelle was also the face and voice of local business news on the NBC affiliate KPNX and on KTAR news-talk radio. She is an expert in communication and presentation skills, emotional intelligence, and personal performance. She is a master certified trainer in Emotional Intelligence from the Institute of Health and Human Potential and is also the Co-founder of The Southwest Institute for Emotional Intelligence. Joelle has inspired thousands of executives across the country with her many speeches and workshops centered on corporate culture, personal excellence, and lifestyle along with leadership.
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Feelings: Handle them before they handle you (health video)

From the TEDx YouTube Channel: Mandy Saligari’s first contact with the world of addiction, mental health and recovery was when she came into treatment in 1990. Her passion for therapy and its potential for change ignited here, inspiring her to make therapy her life’s work. Alongside a growing private practice Mandy always gave time to promote early intervention through lectures on addiction, emotional coping mechanisms and self-esteem as part of the PSHE (Personal, Social & Health Education) provision within independent schools. In 2008, with a busy private practice and many years of recovery under her belt, Mandy founded CHARTER Harley Street, an outpatient centre treating addiction and trauma using her pioneering model of care.
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The gentle power of highly sensitive people (inspirational video)

From the TEDX YouTube channel: Elena is a mentor for highly sensitive and empathic entrepreneurs. She explains why we need to change the prevalent cultural narrative around highly sensitive people.

Elena Herdieckerhoff, Founder & CEO of Entreprincess, is a mentor for highly sensitive and empathic entrepreneurs. In her TEDx talk, she explains why we need to change the prevalent cultural narrative around highly sensitive people. As a Highly Sensitive Person (HSP) herself, she has made it her mission to empower other HSP entrepreneurs to turn their sensitivity into their greatest business asset. She is an award-winning serial entrepreneur, including having built a highly acclaimed international luxury skincare brand, and has graduated from the Sorbonne (DEUG), University College London (B.A.) and the London School of Economics (MSc). She is passionate about entrepreneurship, French literature, organic living, Reiki and spirituality!
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Everything you think you know about addiction is wrong (health video)

From the TED.com YouTube channel: What really causes addiction — to everything from cocaine to smart-phones? And how can we overcome it? Johann Hari has seen our current methods fail firsthand, as he has watched loved ones struggle to manage their addictions. He started to wonder why we treat addicts the way we do — and if there might be a better way. As he shares in this deeply personal talk, his questions took him around the world, and unearthed some surprising and hopeful ways of thinking about an age-old problem.

Depression and spiritual awakening — two sides of one door (inspirational video)

From the TEDx YouTube channel: This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. Is depression, as most of us experience it, meaningless suffering? Dr. Lisa Miller presents research that lends meaning to the experience of depression and to our experience on planet Earth.

Dr. Lisa Miller is perhaps the world’s foremost expert in the relative study of psychology and spirituality. Dr. Miller is Professor and Director of Clinical Psychology at Teachers College, Columbia University, where she founded and currently directs the Spirituality and Mind-Body Institute, to innovate, disseminate, and train healers in foundationally spiritual treatments. Dr. Miller solo-edited the Oxford University Handbook of Psychology and Spirituality (2012) and has published over seventy articles and chapters on spirituality in mental health and wellness. She has acted as Principle Investigator on several million dollars-worth of grants from corporate and family foundations as well as the National Institutes of Mental Health. Dr. Miller is Co-Founder and Co-Editor-in-Chief of the new APA publication, Spirituality in Clinical Practice, and also serves as associate editor of Psychology of Religion and Spirituality, the official journal of APA Division 36, Society for the Psychology of Religion and Spirituality, for which Dr. Miller has served as President and is now APA Council Representative. Dr. Miller has been elected to Fellow of the American Psychological Association and awarded the Virginia Sexton Mentoring Award. She is a graduate of Yale University, Columbia University, and University of Pennsylvania, where she studied under Martin Seligman, Ph. D.

It’s About Time You Realized You Are Strong Enough (inspirational video)

From the TEDx.com YouTube channel: It’s about time you realized you are strong enough!

Anne Grady, Speaker/Author/Communication & Leadership Consultant

Anne Grady is an internationally recognized speaker and author who shares humor, humility, refreshing honesty, and practical strategies that can be applied both personally and professionally.

Anne puts a comedic spin on the term “human behaviorist”. Her expertise is growing talent, offering up timely solutions and building subtle, yet sustainable, change in teams and organizations.

Anne will take you out of your comfort zone and then lift the bar on personal and professional learning and development—all while keeping you laughing while you are learning! Her work has been featured in Harvard Business Review, Entrepreneur and Inc. magazines, CNN, and Fox Business. Anne faces adversity head on and shares her personal toolkit for building courage and resilience. Read more

The surprisingly dramatic role of nutrition in mental health (health video)

From the TED.com YouTube channel: In this critically important talk, clinical psychologist Julia Rucklidge explores a range of scientific research, including her own, showing the significant role played by nutrition in mental health or illness.

Julia J Rucklidge, PhD is a Professor of Clinical Psychology in the Department of Psychology at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand. Originally from Toronto, she did her training in neurobiology (McGill) and Clinical Psychology (University of Calgary). Her interests in nutrition and mental illness grew out of her own research showing poor outcomes for children with significant psychiatric illness despite receiving conventional treatments for their conditions. For the last 6 years, she has been investigating the role of micronutrients in the expression of mental illness, specifically ADHD, Bipolar Disorder, anxiety and more recently, stress and PTSD associated with the Canterbury earthquakes.

Lessons from the Mental Hospital (inspirational video)

From the TED.com YouTube channel: Glennon Doyle Melton is the author of the New York Times Bestseller, CARRY ON, WARRIOR, founder of http://www.momastery.com, and creator of http://www.monkeeseemonkeedo.org. Glennon believes that life is equal parts beautiful and brutal, and writes about the “brutiful” she finds in marriage, motherhood, faith, addiction and recovery. Glennon unleashes her wit, courage and irreverence to call us to accept ourselves exactly as we are today, but also incidentally inspires us to live bolder, more meaningful lives for others. Glennon is a speaker and regular contributor to Huffington Post and other publications. CARRY ON, WARRIOR and Glennon’s philanthropic work have been featured on The TODAY Show, The Talk, Ladies’ Home Journal, Parents Magazine, and American Baby, among other television and print outlets. She lives in Naples, Florida with her family.

Conception to birth - visualized (inspirational video)

From the TED.com YouTube channel: Image-maker Alexander Tsiaras shares a powerful medical visualization, showing human development from conception to birth and beyond. (Some graphic images.)

Editor’s note: The video Alexander Tsiaras created for his TED Talk is breathtakingly beautiful!

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