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Today I Love Sunny Morning Drives
Today I love sunny morning drives on my way to the Wednesday office. I love this blue sky day of sunlight and opportunity. I love that I have a lot...
Are You An Adult Survivor Of Childhood Bereavement?
The death of a parent in childhood can be a very complicated experience. If you are lucky there will be people around you who will support you, and be with...
Texting and Arguing: Fighting Over Text Messages
How often do you find yourself wondering if you may have simply misunderstood the context or meaning of a text message? Most people are pretty adept at transmitting factual information...
The Health Benefits of Staying Organized: An Interview With John Linden
Ever since I moved into my very own office — away from the dirty laundry and magazine piles of my home office in the bedroom — I’ve been studying the relationship...
People Who Cohabit Have Higher Self Esteem than Married People
My interest is in people who are single, so do people who cohabit count? It depends on the definition of single. Legally, if you are not married, you are single....
Writing the Manual For Running the “You” Machine (post-narcissistic abuse)
What is every first-time parent’s frantic wish? That their baby had come with a manual! As we grow up, their wish becomes our wish too. Please! Somebody tell me how...
Free Live Webinar: Who Are You Dating? Learning About Our Patterns
(Please note: This free live webinar will be recorded and a copy made available to all who register.) So, who have you been hanging out with lately? Think about the...
Hook-Ups, Hangovers and Hopelessness: How not to Waste your College Years
Let’s get rid of it.The hook-up culture. I don’t know when it started. But let’s stop it. I’m guessing it began as a feminist thing. We want casual...
Spring Cleaning for Inner Growth: 4 Steps to Take
I’m a great believer in turning the page when you’re feeling stuck in your life, and what better moment than the beginning of Spring? We’ve all had the quiet of...
Neuromyth: Intrinsic Motivation is Driven by External Reward
One of the best motivators to learn is personal satisfaction.[1] But where does this internal drive come from? Many believe that students are motivated to learn because of what the...
Savoring Communication: What It Is, Why It Matters
“I’ve always believed in savoring the moments. In the end, they are the only things we’ll have.” – Anna Godbersen New research from the University of Arizona demonstrates how we...
Parenting & The College Admissions Scandal
One can’t help but draw a correlation between modern day parenting, and the recent college admissions scandal. Today’s children more often times than not grow up running the show. In other words, parents...
Forget What I Said Before
What did I tell you? Well forget it. Wait, don’t forget all of it. Be selective. Lots of things I told you are still valid. But here’s something I’ve mentioned...
Life Before HIPAA
Imagine if your health insurance company provided your employer with details about your mental illness, including diagnosis and notes. At the same time, your doctor didn’t have to give this...
Learning to Move Like You Love Yourself
“Move like you love yourself.” My YouTube yoga teacher, Adriene, has been saying this for the last year, which is the exact amount of time I’ve been taking her online...
It’s Time To End Emotional Exports
Have you ever heard someone express an emotional concern and then someone else gets busy trying to fix it? Someone might say, “I’m worried about the financial stability of our...
7 Gaslighting Phrases Malignant Narcissists, Sociopaths and Psychopaths Use To Silence You, Translated
Gaslighting is an insidious erosion of your sense of reality; it creates a mental fog of epic proportions in the twisted “funhouse” of smoke, mirrors, and distortions that is an...
ADHD or Normal Procrastination?
Last week, I wrote about the often frantic process of meeting a deadline when you have ADHD. It’s fair enough if you read that post and wondered, “but doesn’t everyone...
What’s Gone Wrong with Addiction Treatment? And How We Can Fix It!
Dr. Robert Weiss has created a ten-item list of necessities for creating the best possible addiction treatment programming.
Different as Night and Day: Embracing Black Individuality
The social and political conditions that fostered our differences have long existed in the United States. American history is replete with periods (e.g., slavery, Jim Crow, separate but equal) that...
Holocaust Survivors With PTSD May Pass Down Negative Views of Aging to Adult Children
A new Israeli study finds that negative views on aging are often passed down in families of Holocaust survivors with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The findings, published in the Journals...
Healthy Diet Early On May Mean Fitter Brain in Middle Age
Eating a heart-healthy diet in young adulthood — one rich in fruits and vegetables, moderate in nuts, fish and alcohol, and low in meat and full-fat dairy — is associated...
Facial Expressions Alone May Not Convey Emotional State
New research clarifies that emotional intelligence involves much more than reading people’s micro-expressions. When it comes to reading a person’s state of mind, the visual context of background and action...
Visiting Urban Park Can Foster Happiness, Workout or Not
New research suggests spending 20 minutes in an urban park can improve happiness, regardless of whether a person is engaging in exercise or not during the visit. Investigators from the...
Study Probes How Concussion Impacts Deep Brain Structure
Concussion researchers have long suspected that damage to the brain’s corpus callosum could be the underlying reason behind certain side effects of concussion, including dizziness or vision problems. Their hypothesis...
Study: Extra Vitamin D Boosts Memory But May Slow Reaction Time in Older Adults
In a new study, overweight and obese older women who took more than three times the recommended daily dose of vitamin D showed an increase in memory and learning but...
