Navigating Difficult Transitions: Training Your Brain for Greater Joy, Connection, and Fulfillment
Week of January 18, 2025
Master Your Mindset: The Key
Learn to embody a positive mindset with research backed tools and strategies. Ignite your capacity for greater of joy, connection and fulfillment.
Strengthen Your Gratitude Quotient
Gratitude is the emotion we use when we feel and express thankfulness and appreciation. Expressing gratitude improves mental, physical and relational health, and is fundamental to our sense of happiness and well-being. Learning to take what is authentically good unlocks the door to forgiveness and paves the way for inner freedom.
Grow Your Self-Compassion
Self-Compassion, Loving Kindness or Metta is about developing peace, harmony and establishing well-being within ourselves, with others, and the world around us. By internalizing self-compassion one learns to abandon bitterness and animosity and embrace goodwill. When practiced regularly, Metta teaches unconditional self-love, love for others, and a desire for the greater good.
Deepen Your Relationships
Learn to communicate more effectively with your partner, friends, family, and everyone else in your life. Build your capacity to listen generously, speak clearly and kindly from the heart while paving the way for stronger connections with others.
Discover Your Life Vision
Every day we have hundreds of choices to make about how we are going to show up in our lives. Without knowing where you are heading it is impossible to navigate life well or wisely. When clear about your personal vision, you are able to create an inner compass that informs your choices and actions going forward.
Dr. Randy Kamen is a psychologist, life coach, educator and author of her bestselling books, Behind the Therapy Door: Simple Strategies to Transform Your Life and The Gratitude Effect Positivity Journal: 90 Days to Rewire Your Brain. She pioneered new territory in mind-body medicine at Boston University’s School of Medicine and Harvard Medical School. Dr. Kamen leads global online programs, workshops and retreats for families, corporations, hospitals and academic institutions. She weaves together researched based skills and strategies for mind management, self-regulation, healthy relationships, personal leadership, and living your vision in her unique systematic and transformational approach.
Dr. Kamen uses a process called Thera-Coaching in which she helps individuals gain understanding and resolution about their past in the service of moving forward and cultivating an intentional and purpose driven life. She divides her time between her two favorite islands; Martha’s Vineyard and NYC. Randy cherishes her time with her two adult children, their budding families… and of course coming to Rancho La Puerta.