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If you’re reading this, the chances are good that you’re trying not to repeat history and go down that path which looked like it was strewn with flowers on the......

Today I love small towns waking up in the early morning. I love that there’s a person with an appointment waiting for the open sign to be turned at the......

“Our life is frittered away by detail…simplify, simplify.” – Henry David Thoreau If the idea of simplifying your life is appealing, you might be more motivated and likely to get......

Traumatic bonding. Neglect. Psychological abuse. What comes to mind when you hear these terms? Do you find yourself picturing a loved one in your mind? Are you thinking about an......

A topic such as school shootings is always difficult to discuss whether you are a parent, student or employee of the school.  To honor the fallen and wounded, the truth......

Sometimes, for the young person, simply being removed from the environment where the dysfunction is occurring for a short while helps more than anything else. There are benefits and challenges......

“And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:” God  It is a reality no matter what you are going to die. Coming to......

What causes a partner to cheat or become untrustworthy in other ways? It’s a question researchers have been asking for decades and there is no set answer. For example, you......

When I first met Michelle Hammer, she made exactly zero impression. I remember the conference we were both attending, but I don’t remember her. I have some vague recollection of......

It’s human nature to seek control. Of course we want to know how things are going to turn out. Am I wasting time at a job that will never lead......

We’re all capable of abuse when we’re frustrated or hurt. We may be guilty of criticizing, judging, withholding, and controlling, but some abusers, including narcissists, take abuse to a different......

People with Asperger’s Syndrome have many gifts: high intelligence, a capacity to focus on many details and...

Plateaus, or rest periods, are essential to one’s growth....

I’m not sure what I was thinking, but somehow in the back of my mind I hadn’t really put two and two together….until yesterday. This was the day I crawled......

People often casually comment about being “so OCD” without regard to the...

When you have a mental illness or you’re going through certain struggles, you think it’s just you. You feel alone. Incredibly alone. You think you’re the only one who’s devastated......

Many of us perceive ourself as being at the center of the world. This attitude is called egocentrism....

I came across an article on NPR’s website a few days ago which reported: The number of kids who struggle with thoughts of suicide or who attempt to kill themselves is......

Nobody likes a whiner — someone who wallows in self-pity and is very vocal about telling you...

Unlike the American Psychiatric Association, the World Health Organization has examined the existing research and decided that compulsive sexual behavior (or sex addiction, or sexual compulsivity, or out of control sexual behavior, or hypersexuality, or whatever else you choose to...