Change is pivotal in therapy. In fact, it’s the reason people seek professional help in the first place, according to Deborah Serani, Psy.D, a clinicial psychologist and author of the ...

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There are a lot of books about how to become happier. Amy Shea’s Defending Happiness, and Other Acts of Bravery takes the goal further. It’s not enough to find your bliss, she tells us: You have to defend it. Better yet, she conveys that point not through hackneyed self-help language, but a collection of amusing ...

Do you wish there were more hours in the day to get through your to-do list? Have you had a friend ask, “Are you okay?” If so, were you surprised because you hadn’t even noticed what you were ...

Today I woke up with a song in my head. As I went about my morning routine I found myself singing Billy Ocean’s “When the Going Gets Tough.” The funny ...

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I began crocheting when I was 19. It was the most stressful point in my life. I had just started my first semester of college, had moved to a different state where I knew no one, and to top off that ice cream sundae of life’s situations, I had been diagnosed with an inoperable brain ...

Read various website about how to combat the “Monday Blues” and you'll find pretty much the same advice in all of them: Get extra sleep Sunday night. Give yourself a jolt of cold water in your ...

With Thanksgiving approaching, many Americans struggling with health, financial, and emotional problems find it challenging to feel grateful. Some people have a habit of looking at the negative. That can be because our brains are predisposed to solve problems, ...

“The only way to have a friend is to be one.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson The teen I was talking with yesterday was perplexed. “How come I can’t keep friends?” she wanted to know. “I’m nice. I’m decent looking. I like ...

For many people self-acceptance is hard to come by on a good day. It’s tenuous, a glass with tiny cracks, at best. On a bad day, when you’ve made a ...

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It’s likely a safe assumption that most people would like to be considered kind.  It is one of those adjectives that warms the heart and endears others to us.  However, how do you really apply this virtue to your day-to-day life?  Stephanie Dowrick attempts to answer this question in her book, Everyday Kindness: Shortcuts to ...

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This book's subject is self explanatory. It is simply about the complex issue of happiness. It attempts to explain what happiness in its various forms means to all of us.  By “all of us,” I mean the wealthy to the poor and everyone in between.  That includes the young and old, the intelligent and the ignorant, ...

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In Why Can’t I Change?: How to Conquer Your Self-Destructive Patterns, Shirley Impellizzeri outlines the psychological issues surrounding attachment from birth through adulthood. Using the latest research on brain science plus well-supported theories, Impellizzeri does a solid job of setting the stage before addressing the ultimate question underlying her book: Why is it so difficult for people to ...