How to Deal with the Aftermath of Shame
“Shame is a soul-eating emotion.” – Carl Jung Like most people, you’ve likely experienced shame at some point in your life. To some, even the slightest violation of personal values…
Self-Help
How to Navigate Two Annoying Parts of Parenting
Parenting is an amazing adventure. It is an honor and a privilege to raise a human being. It is fascinating, and wonderful to witness your kids evolve, and to grow…
Why Accepting a Diagnosis of Bipolar Disorder Is So Difficult—and What Actually Helps
One of the biggest challenges in treating bipolar disorder is actually accepting the diagnosis. Because, of course, if you don’t believe you have an illness, you won’t focus on managing…
10 Simple Ways to Relieve Depersonalization
Depersonalization Disorder is a persistent feeling of being disconnected from your body and thoughts. It can feel like you’re living in a dream, or looking at yourself from outside your…
Book Review: 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos
It’s hard to wrap my head around the phenomenon that is Jordan Peterson, a Canadian clinical psychologist and professor of psychology who has taken disaffected, mostly-white, mostly-male individuals by storm…
Book Review: Timeless: Nature’s Formula for Health & Longevity
If you knew there were things you could do to help you live longer, would you do them? That is an interesting question for which we already have a partial…
Book Review: Unsafe Thinking: How To Be Nimble & Bold When You Need It Most
Safe thinking might just be a bit of a misnomer. For one thing, it presumes that events can be predicted, situations accurately interpreted, setbacks nimbly sidestepped, and failures deftly avoided….
Book Review: Bringing Your Shadow Out of the Dark
There are many things in this world that are forbidden and many more that we forbid ourselves. We may not allow ourselves to feel or acknowledge our shame, anger, longing,…
Book Review: 8 Steps to High Performance
Many things in life are guided by trial and error, but this is especially true when we try to improve our performance. We take the best advice we are given,…
Book Review: Sleep Sense: Improve Your Sleep, Improve Your Health
While sleep is a natural and necessary function and the cornerstone of good health, whether we get enough sleep, or the right kind of sleep, is another issue altogether. In…
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…
Book Review: DBT Therapeutic Activity Ideas for Working with Teens
Teenagers are the greatest enigma. Maturing, yet still young in so many ways, teenagers are in a unique place in life, and when each young person brings with them not…
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….