Mental Health Days for Children
Adults use mental health days to recharge, refocus, and reduce stress with the ultimate goal to return to normal activities more focused. Producing high-quality work takes its toll and dedicated…
Self-Help
6 Critical Tips for Making the Most of Your ADHD Coaching
Working with a credentialed, experienced ADHD coach is critical for helping individuals with ADHD achieve their goals, capitalize on their strengths and build a fulfilling life. And like any important…
5 Myths about Bipolar Disorder That Boost Stigma
When therapist Colleen King was 19 years old, a psychiatrist told her that because of her family history—her father and brother having bipolar disorder—she shouldn’t have children. Today, King’s clients…
Reality Isn’t Always What You Think! How Cognitive Distortions Harm Us
We all see reality through a personal lens shaped by our beliefs, culture, religion, and experiences. The 1950 movie Rashomon was a brilliant example of this, where three witnesses to…
Book Review: The Art of Limitless Living
“When we change how we relate to our reality, through our inner actions and interactions, then we indeed change our personal and often shared experiences,” writes Melissa Joy Johnson. In…
Book Review: How to Be Single & Happy
Jennifer L. Taitz, who describes herself as “a cognitive behavioral therapist focused on mindfulness and compassion,” had a particular goal in mind when she wrote How to Be Single and…
Book Review: Ending The Diet Mindset
A quick survey of obesity statistics and annual spending on diet and weight loss products in this country tells us two things: we have a crisis of obesity, and the…
Book Review: Love Worth Making
Sex technique and truly understanding sexual feelings are not the same thing. The former might work in the short-term, but over time, the novelty wears off and what the couple…
Book Review: Unsafe Thinking
Unsafe Thinking is a book for anyone who knows they tend to take the safe route with their decisions and ideas and wants to be a bit more innovative. People…
Book Review: The Only Way Out Is Through
It is often said that it is the most challenging life experiences that plant the seeds for the most profound growth. When we are struggling to find meaning in our…
Book Review: The 10 Best-Ever Anxiety Management Techniques
Managing anxiety symptoms with medication can be effective, but is not always a great long-term solution. Anxiety happens for a variety of reasons. It may be experienced when there are…
Book Review: The Human Magnet Syndrome
The experience of falling in love can be indescribable. We don’t know why, we can’t explain it, but we just feel irrisistably drawn to someone. However, according to Ross Rosenberg,…
Book Review: The OPA! Way
“We observed that there is a basic human need to be engaged in meaningful relationships with others – family, friends, neighbors, co-workers, even acquaintances – and to feel that life…
Book Review: The Stress Management Handbook
Sometimes people don’t realize how stressed they are until a minor thing triggers a bout of anger that does not match the circumstance. In The Stress Management Handbook: A Practical…
Book Review: The Courage Habit
Desire is a central feature of the human experience and yet we are so often held captive by it. What we want is often just out of reach, and the…