Book Review: Social Courage: Coping & Thriving With the Reality of Social Anxiety
“Most people who feel trapped by shyness or social anxiety will settle with the status quo and never seek help, be it from a knowledgeable therapist or from finding a…
Motivation and Inspiration
Book Review: Souls like Stars: Renew Your Mind, Heal Your Heart, Unveil Your Shine
Are you where you want to be in life? Or do you feel things from your past are holding you back? In Souls like Stars: Renew Your Mind, Heal Your…
Book Review: The Anxiety Management Workbook
Although it is a normal human emotion and an adaptive response to threatening situations, anxiety can feel overwhelming, often trapping us in a loop of automatic thoughts that lead to…
Book Review: The Anxiety Management Manual
Anxiety can feel paralyzing. It can keep us from doing the things we love. It can keep us from pursuing our goals. It can keep us from enjoying our lives….
Book Review: You are Not Alone: A Heartfelt Guide for Grief, Healing & Hope
Grief is a strange, strange force. Just ask anyone who has lost someone dear to them or traversed through unexpected tragedy. As writer Dean Koontz puts it, “Grief can destroy…
Book Review: Resilience: The Science of Mastering Life’s Greatest Challenges, 2nd Edition
It is not news that most of us won’t escape this life without facing some form of major life trauma. And how we get through these events lays the groundwork…
Book Review: Wake Up! A Handbook to Living in the Here & Now
Have you ever experienced the phenomenon of driving and suddenly realizing you don’t remember half your journey? It can be quite shocking to realize you have spaced out so deeply,…
Book Review: Playful Intelligence
Why have we forgotten how to play as adults? It seems that once we have the responsibilities of work and family, our time is spent learning how to deal with…
Book Review: The Happiness Curve
Many things exist on a bell curve. Creativity, mastery, and optimal experience are just a few. But the relationship between age and happiness? Actually the curve is upside down. We…
Book Review: Therapy with a Coaching Edge
For mental health professionals, the line between coaching and psychotherapy can sometimes feel blurry. Yet both professions hold the same goal — to help the client change. In her new…
Book Review: Alone Time: Four Seasons, Four Cities, and the Pleasures of Solitude
New York Times travel writer Stephanie Rosenbloom has had plenty of enviable assignments, but one of the most revelatory was a five-day solo trip to Paris. After she had been…
How Discovering Your Core Values Could Prevent Discontent
I want to talk about values for a moment. Values is a small word that does not get the recognition it deserves. Its reputation is pushed aside by many, as…
How to Change Goals
“A goal should scare you a little and excite you a lot.” – Joe Vitale Society has come a long way since British industrial psychologist Cecil Alec Mace first conducted…
How Do You Figure Out Your Life’s Purpose?
“Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself, and know that everything in life has purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to…
Book Review: The Top Ten Lies We Tell Ourselves
“We just can’t take our little selves and the world too seriously, for they contradict the True Self we share equally with God,” writes Dr. Dana Marrocco. The point Marrocco…