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Why Humans Can, But Apes and Monkeys Can’t Sync to the Beat
Despite their genetic proximity, human and non-human primates differ in their capacity for ‘beat induction’, which is the ability to perceive a regular pulse in music or auditory stimuli and...
View ArticleL'amour French Style
The recent scandal swirling around French President Francois Hollande is yet another sign that the French really do think differently about love and marriage than Americans do. First there are the...
View ArticleChildfree Trend on the Rise: Four Reasons Why!
It seems that news about more and more adults deciding to opt out of parenthood is popping up everywhere. I chuckled recently as I read that economists are blaming this trend on the financial state of...
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What Does Online Dating Tell Us About Racial Views?
Preferences can be funny things, or at least our judgments of them. If I were to state that, “I have no interest in hiring a black person to do this job”, I would receive more than a little...
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A Plea for Help
People have an innate need to feel cared for.I’m not so sure why it is so hard for so many women to feel heard and cared for after they have a baby, but it is.This is a topic I write about frequently....
View ArticleHaving a Great and Imperfect Family Vacation
The family vacation is one that is often hyped up. American families have less time together today than ever before. People save money and time to plan for a spectacular week when they will be together...
View ArticleThe Relationship Between Violence and Psychotic Disorders
Violence is extremely common, violent crimes occurring literally in the hundreds of thousands every year. Individuals assault each other impulsively, almost casually, even those whom they love. The...
View ArticleWhy Your Therapist Should Go "Back To The Future"
I recently spoke to psychology doctoral students about the innovative contributions of some pioneering psychoanalysts in New York and Washington and who collaborated during the 1930s -1950s. Several...
View ArticleIn Praise of Snake Handling
Pastor Mark Randall Wolford died as a result of a snake bite in May 2012. This story hits home with me because I have developed a sincere appreciation of snake-handling churches thanks to the show...
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Committing to Radical Self-Care
"About 3 days a month I wake up feeling excited about life, and all my responses to my kids are better. But the other days, I just can't amp it up to be as playful and patient as I want to be.""Want to...
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Gift Yourself
Who’s left off your gift list?The Practice: Gift yourself.Why?Can you remember a time when you offered a gift to someone? Perhaps a holiday present, or a treat to a child, or taking time for a friend –...
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Grief from a Death of a Loved One Is Part of Life
Grief from a death of a loved one is part of life. It can take from one to two years and with certain deaths five years. And with important relationships, one never fully recovers. This is the human...
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Embrace Boredom to Become More Creative
A girl called Holly Thompson yawned so hard in a boring school class that she dislocated her jaw and couldn’t close it again. The 17-year-old English schoolgirl had to be taken to hospital where the...
View ArticleBuddhist Ecology, Or Ecological Buddhism 101
When monk asks master "How may I enter in the Way," the master points to a stream and responds, "Do you hear that torrent? There you may enter." Walking in the mountains, a master asked, "Do you smell...
View ArticleWhat Makes Women Anxious?
Women have a complex relationship to anxiety and worry because we have for so long been barred from acting on our ambitions or rebellions that we have learned to turn to fear as a way of dealing with...
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The Silent Genocide in Black America
The United States is not Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, Canada, Oceania, Central, or South America—we are all of them. Hence, in the struggle for “one world, one people” America is Gettysburg....
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Dealing with Stress—Taking Charge of Your Life
Pushed and pulled by competing demands, juggling family needs and increased work expectations, rushing, from one task to the next—living this way causes chronic stress, which is toxic to our systems,...
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Gardening for the Soul
One time when away from my office for four weeks, I failed to have anyone water the plants. When I came back, the plants were brown, shriveled up, and almost dead. I did not know if I could bring them...
View ArticleIs Killing A Rhino For $350K Really Good For Other Rhinos?
Who lives, who dies, and why?We live in a troubled and wounded world in which humans continue to dominate and relentlessly kill numerous nonhuman animals. A Texas hunting club recently auctioned off an...
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40 Years a Slavefish
It hit me in the first five minutes of 12 Years a Slave. This movie was also the story of another gripping, fact-based movie, Blackfish. My revelation? That the gruesome oppression revealed in 12 Years...
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