Articles on Motivation and Inspiration
Postpartum Psychosis: Is It Real?
“I don’t remember too clearly,” says Sarah, 40, now divorced. “There was a rat. It was black and silky, the size of a cat, and it ran across the...
Why We Fear Death and How to Integrate It into Our Lives
From our first breath in this lifetime until the split second the heart clock stops ticking away the moments of our incarnation, we are on call to this concept...
Book Review: Born To Run
From his early childhood days in Freehold, New Jersey to his 60th birthday and beyond, Bruce Springsteen’s autobiography, Born To Run is an in depth, insightful, and extremely honest memoir...
How to Build a Healthy Relationship with Yourself Every Day
A healthy relationship with ourselves is multi-layered. It’s complicated. It consists of many, many parts—just like any relationship with anyone. And just like any relationship, there are important ingredients...
The One Simple Truth about Making Our Problems Go Away
I just found myself, again, recommending The Road Less Traveled to someone in need of guidance. Yes, I know, this book is nearly forty years old. And yet, its...
12 Simple Activities You Can Do to Start Building Self Esteem Today
Self-esteem is a popular topic these days, with even parenting guides encouraging parents to start young in encouraging their children’s self-esteem. It’s not hard to see why — people...
10 Tips for What to Do When You’re in Over Your Head
You know that sinking feeling you get when you say yes to too many requests, take on too much when you know you won’t be able to tackle it...
Tips That Helped Me Recover from Trichotillomania
This article is a follow up to “An Unconventional Take on Trichotillomania”. Tips that helped me recover from trichotillomania: Cover up the mirror in the bathroom with contact paper...
An Unconventional Take on Trichotillomania
I have absorbed countless articles, posts, and videos about trichotillomania (compulsive hair pulling) over the years, and most of them aggravate and concern me. After having trichotillomania for 13...
Mindful Motoring: How Herbie the Love Bug Is Saving My Life
If you work in the mental health field for long enough, eventually you’ll hear the word “mindfulness” so often that, one day, you’ll be sitting in a treatment team...
Book Review: The Thrive Life
“What if you could take control of every choice, your every decision, and focus all that you are into becoming the person you want to be? What amazing things...
When One Person Changes in a Relationship
We seek relationships for a variety of purposes — safety and security, love and intimacy, to satisfy physical, emotional and spiritual needs, to name a few — and it...
Book Review: The Quitter’s Guide to Finishing
Betsy Schow wrote The Quitter’s Guide to Finishing as a follow-up to her book Finished Being Fat, the story of her personal weight loss journey that encouraged readers to persevere...
Hearts and Minds: How We Think About Moral Dilemmas
Consider the following question: You are on a bridge above a runaway train quickly approaching a fork in the tracks. On the tracks extending to the left is a...
Book Review: Stand Firm
Ironic as it may be, Stand Firm: Resisting the Self-Improvement Craze is a self-help book urging you to resist the self-improvement craze. The field of psychology is an outgrowth of...
