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Do Calorie Labels Curb Poor Food Choices?
While I do not have a sweet tooth, I am a fan of the dark chocolate ice cream at Baskin Robbins. Although the franchises in my hometown (Montreal) have regrettably discontinued the flavor (perhaps...
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Watching TV Before Sleep Is A (Sleep) Losing Strategy
Many people watch television right before they go to sleep. Indeed, I’ve met many people who claim that they are unable to fall asleep unless there is a TV on in their bedroom. However, new research...
View ArticleMillennial Meltdown: The Top Secrets of College Students
College students talk to me. A lot.From my perch, reporting live from the trenches of college life, thought I'd offer unvarnished accounts of college students' experiences in their own voices, from...
View Article5 Insights Into Female Leadership from Watching Borgen
A great way to get students and managers to think more deeply about leadership issues is through the use of fiction. Movies like Lincoln, Braveheart, and Monty Python’s Life of Brian tell something...
View ArticleSupportive Psychotherapy
The number of people living as patients in psychiatric hospitals has declined over the last forty years by more than one half, partly as the result of new antipsychotic drugs and as the result of new...
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The perils of parenting a tween
Parenting a child aged between 8-12 may sound like a simple situation. Of course that's if you have either been there done that or perhaps if you have yet to arrived. What could be more difficult than...
View ArticleLeft-handed, Leo, Mama’s Boys Make Good Presidents
Mama’s Boys are forever speaking to the archetypical mother in their minds.Commenters on the last post seemed to think I believe in astrology. I am an intuitive. According to Wikipedia “Intuition is...
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The Secret To Achieving Anything You Want
Evolution may have been wise in programming us all to avoid pain (given the survival advantage it clearly provides), but one important "unintended" consequence of that programming is that we tend to...
View ArticleWhat’s So Tough About Apologizing?
Step on someone’s toe in a crowded elevator, or bump up against them standing in line, and as easily as taking the next breath we say, “Oh, I’m so sorry.” So why is it so tough to apologize when it...
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Wire together fire together: Time to make new connections?
Mark thought the first date on Thursday went well. He and the woman seemed to click, there was chemistry, and afterwards he was excited. After mentioning his upcoming job interview during the date, she...
View ArticleCatatonia Lives!
In all the criticism of DSM-5, the new classification of psychiatric diseases has one triumph to report: bringing back the diagnosis of catatonia as an almost-independent disease entity. The new DSM...
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Just Say "No" to Artificial Sweeteners
There is no such thing as a healthy sweetener—only more, or less, unhealthy ones.This conclusion became abundantly clear to me as I read a study published this week in the medical journal Diabetes...
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Are Smart Drugs a Smart Way to Get Ahead?
School’s almost out and final exams are approaching. As the economy slowly builds steam, hiring trends are looking hopeful and pay raises and promotions are on the incline. And some people, young and...
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Leave the Red Zone
Are you stressed or upset?The Practice: Leave the Red Zone.Why?There I was recently, standing in the shower, my mind darting in different directions about projects in process, frazzled about little...
View ArticleCreating a Salon, Creating a Community
At the height of the salon culture, ideas were shared, friendships burnished, and alliances forged. There were salons that were renowned for their scandal, others through the lasting concepts that...
View ArticleSex and Humanism--Ten Things to Remember
This weekend I spoke at the annual meeting of the American Humanist Association. I started by explaining why humanists need a better understanding of sex:Some people are scared about sex, and are...
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The Shy Spectrum in Kids
If your child is shy and quiet, it can be difficult to know whether or not to be concerned. This is because shyness and social anxiety disorder actually exist on a continuum. Shy but basically secure...
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Are Alcoholism and Addiction in Our Blood?
Much attention is being paid these days to the role that genetics plays in health and illness. The Human Genome Project, completed in 2003, succeeded in identifying all of the genes in human DNA...
View ArticleHow to Know When to Listen to Fear and When to Challenge It.
Fear. Everyone experiences it. It is the most basic human emotion, a function of our reptilian brain. It is there to alert us when we are in danger -- to keep us safe. Sometimes, however, fear gets in...
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Waltzing into a Refreshed Writing Life
Award-winning author Merrill Joan Gerber almost gave up writing more than once in her long career, and yet she always bounced back.The day I read her latest novel, The Hysterectomy Waltz, she cheated...
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