Archive for April, 2012

• Life is Full of Transitions
  Retirement: "removal or withdrawal from service, office, or business;" "withdrawal into privacy or seclusion." No wonder this word retirement seems so inappropriate ...
• How Can I Improve Intimacy in My Marriage?
  It has become too common a refrain: There isn't enough time. This is the excuse put forth ...
• Problems of Codependents
  Everyone laughs when I tell them that I wrote Codependency for Dummies. But codependency is no laughing matter. It causes ...
• Where Have All the Bicycles Gone? Kids Today
  Childhood has moved indoors. What a shame. Children are meant to be running free in open spaces, ...
• Better Than Normal: How What Makes You Different Can Make You Exceptional
  Sometimes the title of a book is so intriguing that you can barely contain your eagerness in wanting to begin reading it.  Such may be the case for you as well with Better Than Normal: ...
• Symptoms of Codependency
  The term codependency has been around for almost four decades. Although it originally applied to spouses of alcoholics, first called co-alcoholics, researchers revealed that the ...
• Q&A: Coping with a Difficult Temperament
  Q. Our seven-year-old son is very sensitive and throws many tantrums. He usually starts his day in a ...
• Community, Libraries and Mental Health
  Unlike his colleague Sigmund Freud, Alfred Adler -- another early 20th century psychologist -- wasn’t interested in analyzing ...
• Finding the Right College
  Parents: Please note that this column is meant to be shared with your teenager. Okay, you made ...
• Smart Thinking: 3 Essential Keys to Solve Problems, Innovate, and Get Things Done
  Today we have access to more information than ever before -- at our fingertips, quickly, and in great volume. Going along with that, we also have a wealth of books and websites that tell us ...
• Do You Love a Narcissist?
  It’s easy to fall in love with narcissists. Their charm, talent, success, beauty, and charisma cast a spell, ...
• Losing Our Moral Compass: The Negative Effects of Overstressing Academic Achievement
  I look at the story headlines in various magazines and newspapers. “Gotta Start ...
• More on Disciplining a Challenging Preschooler
  In a prior column I wrote about how to teach self-control to a 4-year-old boy who constantly challenged ...
• The Meaning of Nice: How Compassion and Civility Can Change Your Life (And the World)
  Nice.  On its own, the word “nice” can carry a variety of tones.  It can imply “good” or “generous;” on the other hand, if it is used sarcastically, it can imply the complete opposite.  How ...
• Stress Management Practices: What Works and What Doesn’t
  Stress is unavoidable. This statement is a fact that most people are highly aware ...
• Kiss That Frog! 12 Great Ways to Turn Negatives into Positives in Your Life and Work
  The late comedian George Carlin had a great line about self-help books: “If you’re looking for self-help, why would you read a book written by somebody else? That’s not self­-help. That’s help!” While we can all ...
• War and Finding Peace
  First responders and veterans are similar in being willing to face danger in order to protect and save others. While they give their all, ...
• 8 Keys to Recovery From an Eating Disorder
  Babette Rothschild, the Series Editor of 8 Keys, explains in her introduction that the purpose of the 8 Keys series is to provide intelligent, thoughtful help from highly experienced professionals.  In this case, Carolyn Costin ...
• 5 Relationship Myths
  Many of us have read the fairy tales and seen the movies. There’s the handsome prince who comes to save the day ...
• Personifying OCD: An Effective Recovery Tool
  My son Dan’s obsessive-compulsive disorder became so severe during the end of his freshman year of college that he could ...
• How’s Your Family Really Doing? 10 Keys to a Happy Loving Family
  When you think about it, who better to write a book about the wellness of a family than a husband and wife team who are mental health professionals and parents of two children?  Don MacMannis, ...
• Can You Benefit from EMDR Therapy?
  EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) therapy has been declared an effective form of trauma treatment ...
• Relationship Tips for Those Rocky First Few Years of Marriage
  Many couples assume that if you live together, ...
• Disciplining Older Teenagers
  Beer cans in a closet, pot in a glove compartment, groundings or curfews ignored, abusive language... not necessarily ...
• Tips for Successful Toilet Training
  Few issues in child-rearing create as much anxiety for mothers and fathers as toilet training. And few issues generate as much ...