Phoenix, AZ -- (SBWIRE) -- 10/10/2019 -- October is Depression Awareness Month. The World Health Organization named depression the number 1 cause of ill health and disability worldwide with more than 300 million people living with depression across the globe. Research shows that depression raises the risk of: Alzheimer's and other dementias, diabetes, stroke, hypertension, sleep disorders, infection, substance abuse, suicide, and early death from those with heart disease. Based on twenty years of research, there is now a proven, easy to use program that brings relief to chronic sufferers of depression. Instead of working to find the roots of one's distress, this approach helps one create a new relationship to depression and improve the symptoms and quality of life by changing how one relates to painful thoughts and feelings. Some cognitive therapy approaches try to suppress symptoms and replace negative thoughts with positive ones, which is rarely successful. This mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) approach includes easy breath exercises, meditations, and innovative visualizations to help people release painful thoughts. These techniques can be used with or without medication. The goal is, not eliminating depression, but creating a new relationship to it that enables one to live their life without depression being the driving force. Stuart Eisendrath MD, Founding Director of UCSF Depression Center, joins Dr. Paula Joyce on Uplift Your Life: Nourishment of the Spirit radio program will be discussing this on the VoiceAmerica Empowerment Channel, Thursday, June 6, at 8AM Pacific Time.

Dr. Stuart Eisendrath, MD, is the author of When Antidepressants Aren't Enough: Harnessing the Power of Mindfulness to Alleviate Depression and the founding director of the University of California San Francisco Depression Center. A senior clinician and research psychiatrist at UCSF, his lectures on mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) for University of California TV have been viewed more than 1.5 million times. His therapeutic approach has been scientifically validated in research funded by the National Institute of Health. He has been teaching MBCT for over fifteen years and is a founding board member of the National Network of Depression Centers. Visit him online at http://www.stuarteisendrath.com

About Dr. Paula Joyce
Dr. Paula, The Life Doctor, has helped thousands of people improve their health, wealth and relationships through writing, coaching and speaking. Her clients attain success, achieve breakthrough thinking and enhanced productivity with her Ultimate Creative Problem Solving Process, which aligns and integrates information in both sides of the brain. Clients dissolve hidden fears and blocks, solve challenging problems and reach their goals.

Despite being told that she couldn't write creatively, paint or dance, Dr. Paula is a best-selling author, an internationally shown artist and an accomplished Argentine Tango dancer. She broke the family rules by being a working mother who did postdoctoral work at Yale and was Director of Leadership Development in a school district where she coached and trained top level executives. She overcame emotional and psychological abuse and learned to see the positive in every experience and feel the gratitude for all of it.

Dr. Paula co-authored a best-seller, Nothing But Net. Her column, Ask Dr. Paula, is in Dallas Yoga Magazine, in print and on the web. Her first e-book is 33 Tips for Self-Empowerment.

She has spoken to organizations such as: American Express Financial Services, Baylor University Medical Center and Jung Society.

Dr. Paula was in USA Today, Dallas Morning News and on national television and radio. She was named a Leading Expert and recognized by The National Academy of Best-Selling Authors.

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