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45% of all older people who commit suicide visit their primary care physician within one month of their death. While the suicide

Today I love Fridays and the sudden realization that the week is about to screech to a halt and make way for the weekend. I love that there is rain and even possibly snow because I’m hoping the ground will stay moist enough for me to try rolling the lawn on Monday because I’ve decided I’d like to have a not lumpy lawn this year,...

“Breathe like you love yourself.” I have been hearing my yoga teacher, Adriene, say this for more than a year now. And because I do Yoga with Adriene nearly every day,...

Teaching children about mental health and what that involves can have a big impact on making them more prepared for life; this is important for a number of reasons in my opinion and can really help reduce stigma and raise awareness by starting with the younger generation....

If you live a life that is different from what is most often valued or celebrated, you are probably living with the feeling – and fact – of being stigmatized....

Here’s what hell looks like to me: having to wake up every morning and immediately go sit in a room for eight hours while someone talks about a topic of their choosing in far more more detail than is necessary....

    Setbacks force a fundamental collision of two realities: that which we would like to maintain (our subjective reality) and that which is actually occurring (the objective reality)....

Last week I commented on an article in the New York Times that reported on the Trump administration’s proposal to monitor the social media accounts of people who

Linda: Flow is the ultimate ecstatic experience, the highest level of happiness. A successful marriage operates inflow state a large portion of the time because both partners are meeting challenges with skills....

Do you find yourself drawn to unsuitable partners like a moth to a flame? Perhaps you always seem to wind up dating people whose personality or life goals are directly opposed to your own....

For a couple of months now, I’ve been working with my foster daughter on catching up in math class. She’s “significantly” behind her peers (and continues to fall further behind each month),...

A law firm claims to have found evidence of more than 7,800 child sex abusers serving as leaders of the Boy Scouts of America. It says the Boy Scout organization has a ‘perversion file’...

Family therapy can truly become either a saving grace or a boxing ring. For many of my clients, it’s a boxing ring full of traps, snakes, confusion, and drama....

Love is an ongoing process of living deeply,, unquestionably, the most profound of all human experiences that brings meaning to our lives. A couple relationship is a unique balancing act,...