Are You in a Dead End Job?
Many people returned to work at the beginning of 2012 with the same thought in mind: where am I going in this job? Even if you truly enjoy your work, you are not alone in this perennial concern about...
View ArticleFor Many, the Most Painful Holiday
The traditional Holiday Season begins around Halloween, continues through Thanksgiving, crests with Christmas and Hanukkah, and ends with New Year's Eve. While the Season can be wonderful for many, it...
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Valen“twine” Chokes Marriages
This past weekend I made a gourmet meal for my husband, children, and their grandma. I served them a honey-lemon-dressed salad with pears and crisp Romaine, a tiny glass basket filled with...
View ArticleBefore We Jump to Whitney Houston Conclusions
I've had numerous calls from media outlets who want to talk about Whitney Houston and her celebrity drug problem since this past Saturday. It seems as if everyone wants to jump to conclusions that I'm...
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Shooting Your Kid’s Laptop Is No Solution to Media Literacy
The North Carolina dad who shot his daughter's laptop in a YouTube video shows the critical need to teach media literacy to our kids. You may see the dad as a hero or an idiot, the daughter as a...
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Some Ways to Practice Are More Perfect Than Others
In the intriguing book Talent Is Overrated author Geoff Colvin makes a case for the idea that what really separates world-class performers from everyone else is how they practice. As a psychologist who...
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Can Brain Imaging Predict Who Will Suffer Cognitive Impairment?
Today, nearly 20 percent of people age 65 or older suffer from mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and 10 percent have dementia. Those numbers seem destined to increase given our current large population...
View ArticleThe TAO: Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Behavior Therapy
THE TAO Mindfulness-Based Cognitive-Behavior TherapyWhen everyone recognizes beauty as beautiful, there is already ugliness; When everyone recognizes goodness as good, there is already evil; "To be"...
View ArticleAre Children Harmed Viewing Sexually Explicit Websites?
A study by Debra Braun-Courville and Mary Rojas of New York adolescents visiting a health clinic found that 55% had viewed a sexually explicit website and that those that did were more likely than...
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Characters Unite to End Prejudice
Media campaigns promoting health and education have been around for several decades. My childhood memories are dotted with the "this is your brain on drugs" ads that showed eggs in a frying pan. There...
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Dogs, Homeless People, and Love: A Picture Is Worth Many Many Words
Soon after I posted my essay about the wonderful Australian movie called Red Dog I received an email sending me to a website that contained beautiful and very moving pictures of homeless people and...
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Pet Euthanasia: Where?
It may seem morbid to think about the death of our companion animals, but I believe that armed with information, we are more likely make choices that feel right for us and our beloved companions, and...
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Dieting and DID
I recently learned that I have high blood pressure and cholesterol. Although neither is so high that I should panic, they are both elevated enough to warrant medication and a change in lifestyle....
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Medicalized Psychiatry: Is an M.D. sufficient?
Psychiatrists are physicians. Following graduation from medical school they enter a one year internship, followed by a three years residency in psychiatry. During internship, a psychiatrist splits his...
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Conquer the Bugs of Distraction
Most of us creatives struggle with at least three kinds of distracting insects - life's fleas, society's gnats, and the mind's mosquitoes.Life's Fleas: More than the Holocaust or Hiroshima, what...
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Don't Be Seduced! Six Crucial Warning Signs
Even though "flirtation" and "seduction" are often used synonymously in everyday talk, there is an important ethical distinction between them. Flirtation issues an invitation and leaves its acceptance...
View ArticleWomen and Work: How Goes the Revolution?
We're more than 30 years into "the quiet revolution." So you'd think we'd have a little better handle on it by now.It began in the late '70s, when women started to surge into colleges and graduate...
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How to Discover Your “Sweet Spot”
Your "sweet spot" is something like your very own golden mean. It's about doing, or not doing, that which in any particular situation is optimal for you. And knowing what's, personally, "just right"...
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ADHD and Obesity
If you were to guess, would you think that people with ADHD are more likely to be obese or skinny?I would have thought skinny, just on first hunch. Calories in = calories out, right? And a lot of...
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