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Transitioning Therapists and Stress Reduction
Dr. Gary Lange is a Palm Desert specialist dealing with gambling and addiction issues.
Jaime R. Carlo-Casellas, Ph.D is an amazing resource for us. He was trained by his friend Jon Kabat-Zinn.
Transitioning Couples Therapy
Paul Zak, LCSW, is a former Catholic priest who uses IMAGO techniques, psychotherapy, and spiritual principles in assisting individuals and couples in healing in all contexts.
David Richo is an author and teacher whose writings are extremely valuable to people suffering in relationship difficulties.
IMAGO is an amazing tool, created by Dr. Hendrix, for assisting people in dealing with relationship problems that arise from wounded-ness.
Transitioning and Parenting in Divorce
Ellen Kellner has written an incredibly and insightful book to help guide you through co-parenting issues.
Provides access to information and resources to help protect children and strengthen families on a wide range of topics from prevention to permanency, including child welfare, child abuse and neglect, foster care, and adoption. Information for all states.
The Children’s Rights Council is an global leader in the advocacy, development and delivery of services and information addressing rights and responsibilities in the “best interest” of children.
Find links to government and other kids' sites.
Free help for family law is now available on the Internet for the estimated 4.3 million Californians who represent themselves in court each year.
Transitioning Resources for Women
An amazing online resource for women by women who are attempting to get a fresh start after divorce.
Transitioning and Collaborative Law
This is an outstanding group of professionals who assist collaborative divorce throughout Southern California, and the only collaborative team in the Coachella Valley.
The collaborative model was created in Minnesota and this site provides a good explication of its principles.
This is a California collaborative practice organization in California.
This is a useful explanation for clients considering utilizing collaborative law to resolve their marital breakups in a nonadversarial setting. Please review it to see whether collaborative process might work for you.
Transitioning and Mindfulness Teachers
Eckhart Tolle wonderfully exposes the addiction of the mind to repetitive thinking, and provides insight into overcoming the experiences of those of us who think to hard and believe what our minds tell us!
Trudy Goodman formed this organization in Los Angeles. One of her contemporaries is Jack Kornfield. This is a nearby resource of spiritual teaching which otherwise is mostly to be found in northern California.
I have attended numerous silent retreats with Adyashanti at Asilomar and Mount Madonna in northern California and have found his teachings to be personally incredibly valuable to my own small awakenings.
This is an outstanding book which combines Buddhist principles with psychology. Jack Kornfield is at the apex of the spiritual pyramid. I was fortunate to attend a silent retreat with this teacher and Trudy Goodman at Mount Madonna in September, 2008 on the subject of the Wise Heart.
Ra m Dass discusses aging and disability following his 1999 stroke in this outstanding ode to what comes next for us all.
Jon Kabat-Zinn pioneered MBSR and mindfulness training among physicians. He is an outstanding author and teacher.
UCLA has developed Kabat-Zinn's teachings as the western bulwark of American mindfulness.
This is an outstanding resource for folks living in central northern California.
Transitioning and Mindful Divorce Resources
What we all desire is peace and the end of suffering. This is a useful tool for people going through divorce proceedings or difficult family transitions.
This is an alias for my website, which expresses one lawyer's vision of how we can reconfigure and re-frame the experience of divorce.
Mindfulness attorney Thurman W. Arnold discusses the very real financial benefits for considering mindfulness in divorce.
Thurman Arnold discusses how mindfulness in divorce can have emotional benefits that echo downstream for generations to come.
Transitioning Attorneys
This is a discussion that might assist you in matching the qualities in your family law attorney with your own values.
Transitioning Family Policy Websites
Comprehensive background information and links on major U.S. public policy issues, including education, the environment, crime, health policy, economic issues, social welfare, and foreign policy.
Transitional Family Resources is sponsored by a group of passionately committed southern California professionals who have joined in order to collaboratively share unique and complementary expertise, insights, and resources with those of us challenged by the transitions that all human beings encounter as we move through the phases of today's life cycles.
The National Council on Family Relations (NCFR), founded in 1938, provides an educational forum for family researchers, educators, and practitioners to share in the development and dissemination of knowledge about families and family relationships, establishes professional standards, and works to promote family well-being.
- CLASP - Policy Analysts and Lawyers, experts on family policy issues
- ChildTrends - dedicated to improving the lives of children through science based information
Transitioning and Domestic Violence
The California Partnership to End Domestic Violence is a catalyst and advocate for social change through innovative solutions to ensure safety and justice for victims and survivors of domestic violence and their children.
SFTS is our desert cities shelter for victims of intimate partner abuse.
This is the number one question most people want to understand. The question, however, should be "Why does he batter?" The question why does she stay places the blame on the victim. The reality is that the majority of battered women make heroic efforts at leaving, but because of the reasons listed here, most are unsuccessful.
Transitioning and Substance Abuse and Recovery
The Betty Ford Center is the alcohol treatment center and drug rehabilitation clinic for families suffering from narcotic and chemical dependency and addiction to alcohol and other drugs
For individuals, families, and communities struggling with addiction to alcohol and other drugs, Hazelden helps people transform their lives by providing the best addiction treatment and recovery services as well as education, research, and publishing products available today.
AA meetings within the desert cities.
Alanon support meetings within the Coachella Valley.
Gary Lange is a Palm Desert specialist dealing with gambling and addiction issues.
Transitioning Blawg
We are want to bring you all kinds of answers and information to help inform your family decisions.
Transitioning Retreat Centers
JTRC is the oldest and largest retreat center in the Western United States; a unique architectural landmark on a 420 acre sacred site.
Mount Madonna Center is a conference and retreat center located on 355 acres of mountain-top redwood forest and grassland overlooking Monterey Bay, between Santa Cruz and Monterey, in Northern California.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center is dedicated to the teachings of the Buddha as presented in the vipassana tradition. The practice of mindful awareness, called Insight or Vipassana Meditation, is at the heart of all the activities at Spirit Rock.
Shambhala Mountain Center is a mountain valley retreat located on 600 acres in northern Colorado. Since 1971 the Center has offered hundreds of programs on Buddhist meditation, yoga and other contemplative disciplines.
Esalen is a non-profit organization that has been devoted to the exploration of human potential since the 1960's. Historical luminaries like Aldous Huxley, Joseph Campbell, Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Joan Baez, and countless others have gathered here to develop revolutionary ideas, transformative practices, and innovative art forms.
The Garrison Institute explores the intersection of contemplation and engaged action in the world. Founded in 2003, our mission is to apply the transformative power of contemplation to today's pressing social and environmental concerns, helping build a more compassionate, resilient future.
Deepak Chopra, M.D. and David Simon, M.D. opened the Chopra Center for Wellbeing in 1996 to help people experience physical healing, emotional freedom, and higher states of consciousness. Located in Carlsbad, California, we offer a wide variety of programs, retreats, and teacher training programs that integrate the healing arts of the East with the best in modern Western medicine.
Mountain Stream Meditation Center supports Buddhist Meditation in the Northern California Sierra Foothills area.
Founded in 1977 by Stephan Rechtschaffen, M.D., and Elizabeth Lesser, Omega Institute for Holistic Studies was inspired by scholar and Eastern meditation teacher, Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan.
Transitioning and Elders
The NAELA membership is comprised of attorneys in the private and public sectors who deal with legal issues affecting seniors and people with disabilities. Members also include judges, professors of law, and students.
Get valuable information about the VA Aid & Attendance Benefit Program from VeteranAid.org.
Advocacy for Seniors; Avoiding Elder Abuse
Nursing Homes for the Elderly
- National Decubitus Foundation- Information about bedsores in nursing home residents and hospital patients; provides education about avoiding bedsores.
- Eden Alternative- Encourages making companion animals and nature part of the nursing home environment.
- Nursing Home Compare- Medicare's reports on all nursing homes that are certified for Medicaid and Medicare. Includes information about residents and staff based on annual inspections. Some data may be outdated or inaccurate, according to the Government Accountability Office, so your may want to use the web site mainly as a starting point for further research.
Senior Web Sites
- Elder Care Locator- Administration on Aging; helps you locate senior resources in your community.
Other Transitioning Professionals
Attorney Sebastian Gibson has been practicing personal injury law in Palm Springs since 1983.
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