by Benjamin Schoendorff | Oct 7 2018 | Blog, General Public, Organisations EN, Professionnal
When I write, I choose to face the discomfort of writing. I step out of my comfort zone. The hardest thing is to walk through the barrier of frustrations that have accumulated for decades. My most intense frustration is that after more than ten years of almost daily...
by Benjamin Schoendorff | Oct 1 2018 | Blog, General Public, Organisations EN, Professionnal
Writing has always been important to me. Ever since I was eight years old, I’ve always wanted to write. But in truth, I never felt like writing. I was well in my forties before I discovered that I could write even if I never felt like it. Ten years later, I am on my...
by Benjamin Schoendorff | Jun 14 2018 | Blog, General Public, Professionnal
For many years I was a prisoner of a futile struggle against my own suffering. I struggled so long that I naturally developed a burning passion for psychotherapy effectiveness and for quick and effective approaches. This is how I came to evidence-based and...
by Benjamin Schoendorff | Aug 29 2017 | Blog, Professionnal
ACT and chronic pain By Benjamin Schoendorff Pain hurts. And when it hurts, it’s only natural to want to stop the pain. For most of us, pain is temporary. It signals that something threatens our physical integrity and it helps us take action to move away from danger....
by Benjamin Schoendorff | Jul 2 2017 | Blog, Professionnal
At the CPI, our mission is to put psychological flexibility in the water supply. This is one of the reasons why we are passionate about making ACT as simple as possible. This way, everybody has a chance to get it. We use what we call the “simple words” approach. In...
by Benjamin Schoendorff | Apr 29 2017 | Blog, Professionnal
Loneliness is a serial killer By Benjamin Schoendorff How the science of social connection can help end the massacre? One of the greatest risk factors for early death, on par with smoking and twice as deadly as obesity or alcohol, is loneliness. We can die from being...
