Awhile back I asked you for your sanity tricks, techniques that help you fight the forces of the dark side. Here are some of the gems. 1. Learn the alphabet. Do ...

When you have a chronic illness your relationship with your doctor is second only to your spouse or your parents. Being honest (and you must be honest!) with ...

After taking a look at a few of the mood trackers that have long been available online, ...

I don't know how many times I utter the Serenity Prayer in a day, but it's well into the double digits. In fact, the words penned by the late theologian ...

Many thanks to Molly McVoy, M.D. of the American Psychiatric Association who forwarded me a new survey recently released by ...

Midweek Mental Greening "In meditation, effort must be applied in a direction opposite to what we are used to. Our 'effort' must be to relax ever more deeply. We must ultimately ...

It's supposed to be the most exciting time of your life... And everyone is telling you how lucky you are to have ...

Seven Steps To Accept A Compliment With Grace. Why is a compliment almost as hard to take as criticism? When I was a ...

Sharon Begley, author of "Train Your Mind, Change Your Brain" explains how training your thoughts actually changes the hard matter of your brain. She writes, "Something as seemingly insubstantial as a thought can affect the very stuff of the brain, altering neuronal connections in a way that can treat mental illness, or perhaps, lead to a greater capacity for empathy and compassion. It may even dial up the supposedly immovable happiness set point." In this video I demonstrate, as usual. Click through to watch the video.

"How are you?" asked one of my co-workers as I walked into the office this morning. "Oh," I said, "I'm exhausted. How are you?" And I can't remember how she answered that question because I ...

I know that the fastest way to despair is by comparing one's insides with another's outsides, and that Max Ehrmann, the author of the classic poem "Desiderata," was absolutely correct when he said that if ...

Perfectionism. It's the enemy of creativity, productivity, and, well, sanity. In "The Artist's Way," author Julia Cameron writes: "Perfectionism is a refusal to let yourself move ahead. It is a loop--an obsessive, ...