Personality Articles

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• Will I Ever Be Good Enough? Healing the Daughters of Narcissistic Mothers
  The daughters of narcissistic mothers have been raised by primary role models who lack the fundamentals of mothering.  Conditioned to care for their mothers rather than the reverse, these women suppress their identities at their ...
• The Secret Language of Money: How to Make Smarter Financial Decisions and Live a Richer Life
  Quick.  Answer this: “To be happy and content, my annual income would need to be $___________.”  David Krueger M.D. and John David Mann, authors of The Secret Language of Money: How to Make Smarter Financial Decisions ...
• What Story Are You Living?
  What Story Are You Living?: A self-improvement guide for discovering and directing the unconscious influences that drive your life story is a well-organized, thoughtful book that can help raise self-awareness.  This book is based on ...
• Mistake Phobia
  Mistake phobia: No, it’s not a real diagnosis, although maybe it ought to be. I came up with the idea while listening to a mom talk about her 9-year-old ...
• Present Perfect
  If you're a perfectionist, have I got the book for you. It may not "cure" you of your perfectionism, but I think that if you read it with an open mind oriented toward ...
• Narcissistic Personality Disorder In-Depth
  Individuals with narcissistic personality disorder often will seem to have a grandiose sense of self-importance. They routinely overestimate their abilities and inflate their accomplishments, often appearing boastful and pretentious. People with narcissistic personality disorder may ...
• Wedding Planning: A Rehearsal for Marriage
  You’re getting married! You and your combination true love, soulmate, and, hopefully, best friend, have talked it out and decided to commit to ...
• Challenging Negative Self-Talk
  Most people don't realize it, but as we go about our daily lives we are constantly thinking about and interpreting the situations we find ourselves in. It's as though we have an internal voice inside ...
• Where Did the Love Go? Growing Up and Growing Apart
  When I first met Joel he was 15, embattled with his parents, failing in school, and deeply, desperately in love. Bright, sensitive, and troubled by what he saw as an older generation that simply didn’t ...
• College Students: There’s a Banquet on the Bulletin Boards
  Rosalind Russell said it best in the movie Auntie Mame. She played an eccentric, flamboyant lady who truly loved life and lived it as she wished. Her most famous line? “Oh, darling -- life’s a ...
• The Link Between Bipolar Disorder and Creativity
  People with bipolar disorder experience episodes of both mania (an exceptionally elevated, irritable, or energetic mood) and depression. These episodes may be separate or depressed and manic symptoms may occur at the same time. The ...
• Narcissistic Mothers
  I do not love; I do not love anybody except myself. That is a rather shocking thing to admit. I have none of the selfless love of my mother. I have none of the plodding, ...
• Mindfulness in Relationships: Breathing Together
  Connecting with others enriches our lives. Researchers find that when we feel close to friends and loved ones we experience greater energy and vitality, increased clarity, and an enhanced sense of value and dignity. Interpersonal ...
• Leave That Pillow Alone!: Better Ways To Deal with Anger
  Back in the 1970s, at the height of the human potential movement, encounter groups, and third wave psychology, you couldn’t attend a class or workshop without boffers (cushioned bats) coming into play. We ...
• I’m an Only Child. So What?
  I do not have any brothers or sisters. Yes, I am an only child. So what? It is okay with me that I don’t have brothers or sisters, so why is it often not ...
• When Your Kids Disappoint You
  As summer winds down, many parents longingly await school, yet dread the frustration and disappointment they feel regarding their kids and the resulting guilt over these reactions. Parents may have a clear vision of their children’s ...
• 10 Reasons You Don’t Listen
  We're all guilty of not listening at one point or another in our lives. We tune others out while we're watching the TV, or trying to concentrate on something we're reading. Nowadays, we try hard ...
• The Psychology of Mental Toughness
  People often seek therapy when they feel overwhelmed, out of control, or unable to take positive action. They think they come to figure things out and may not know that psychotherapy can make you stronger. ...
• Three Men, One Month: The Match.com Journey Continues
  I have now been on roughly a month’s worth of Match.com dates. None of them was completely awful, but some were definitely better than others. Date One: The Liquid Hater I started with a man I ...
• Know Thyself: The Role of Awareness in Psychotherapy
  Awareness Is Ever-Present To be aware is to witness. And our witnessing selves are always there when we dream, in daily activities, when feeling emotions, and in states of excitement or distress. We are constantly aware, ...
• Giving Ourselves Permission To Feel Again
  "One's suffering disappears when one lets oneself go, when one yields -- even to sadness" -Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Imagine Main Street if we didn't rein in our emotions. Rude comments tossed at a passersby who fails to ...
• Just Let Go of Perfectionism
  "The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men." -George Eliot We are constantly bombarded with perfection. Adonis on the cover of Men's Health and Helen on the cover ...
• Lessons from American Idol: It’s Character that Counts
  Okay. I admit it. I'm an American Idol fan. I get an endless amount of grief for it in my office lunchroom: "Don't you know it's fixed?" "Aren't you bored with Simon's schtick? Paula's spacy ...
• The Language of Emotional Intelligence
  If you're reading this website, you've probably heard the term emotional intelligence before, but you may not know exactly what it is. And even if you know what it is, you may not really have ...
• TCBY: A Minor Breakup
  Last night I got TCBY’d: A man I had been dating asked me to return my shirts. Yes, TCBY’d is not a real word or term. It’s something my friends and I use to ...