Self-Help Articles

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• Teens Need A PR Director
  The long-standing popular image of teenagers is that they are rebellious, self-centered, risk-taking, and don't want anything to do with their ...
• The 10 Best-Ever Anxiety Management Techniques Workbook
  In 2008, Margaret Wehrenberg published The 10 Best-Ever Anxiety Management Techniques:  Understanding How Your Brain Makes You Anxious and What You Can Do to Change it.  Now a workbook has been released to accompany the ...
• Rewire Your Brain for Love: Creating Vibrant Relationships Using the Science of Mindfulness
  The thesis of Dr. Marsha Lucas’s new book is simple: By changing your brain, you can change your relationship. In fact, the title says it all: Rewire Your Brain for Love. The basic idea at ...
• Q&A: Disciplining a Challenging Preschool Child
  Q: My son is four years old and he rules the house. His first response to ...
• The Art of Confession: Renewing Yourself Through the Practice of Honesty
  We live in an age of frequent and easy confession. People seem eager to share private information and experiences that would have been kept as closely guarded secrets in years past, perhaps guarded by shame ...
• Sensitive Children Who Develop Significant Anxiety
  In recent months I happened to work with a number of elementary-age children who had developed ...
• Sexuality and Marital Intimacy
  A good marriage is best friends with passion. Without the passion, you just have a friendship. For some, ...
• Organize Your Mind, Organize Your Life
  A wonderfully executed book which sets out with the lofty objective of organizing and taming our society’s fast-paced lifestyle, Organize Your Mind, Organize Your Life is a true prize in its class of literature.  It’s ...
• Two Plus Two: Couples and Their Couple Friendships
  What if I told you that one secret to making a long-term relationship more fulfilling is to have another committed couple with whom you and your beloved could spend time?  The very premise of Two ...
• Overcoming the Fear of Making Mistakes
  “Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor, the enemy of the people.” This is a famous ...
• Easy Steps to Reconnect: A Guide for Emotionally Avoidant Dads
  It was torture for Jason when his 13-year-old ...
• Sexual Awareness: Your Guide to Healthy Couple Sexuality
  Now in its fifth edition since its original publication in 1975, Barry and Emily McCarthy’s Sexual Awareness is still the go-to book for couples who want to learn more about healthy sexuality. Each of the ...
• Clinicians on the Couch: 10 Questions with Psychologist Ryan Howes
  Every month we chat with one clinician about everything from the trials and triumphs of being a ...
• Before The World Intruded: Conquering The Past And Creating The Future
  Michele Rosenthal’s memoir, Before The World Intruded, is the story of her struggle with a life-threatening illness and the trauma it created. Rosenthal shares her battle with Stevens-Johnson Syndrome (SJS), leading us from her diagnosis ...
• How to Overcome Obstacles to Positive Change
  We all are faced at times with trying to persuade others to make behavioral changes, or needing to do so ...
• The Drawing Mind: Silence Your Inner Critic and Release Your Inner Creative Spirit
  Part sketchbook, part tutorial, part self-help and part art project, Deborah Putnoi’s The Drawing Mind is a book like you’ve never seen before. The subtitle gets to the heart of it: Silence Your Inner Critic ...
• 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 ...
• 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: ...
• 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 ...
• 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 ...
• 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 ...
• 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 ...