Using Mindfulness to Tolerate a Terrible Breakup
Well, hello there. This seems to be as good a place as any to launch this blog. Perfect, actually.I’m a recently diagnosed borderline, and last night – yes, last night– my fiancé of two years finally...
View ArticleDo You Have Healthy Bonding Habits? Take This Quiz
In The Ecstasy of Surrender I emphasize that bonding with a partner is a natural part of getting to know someone and of falling in love. But getting overly attached goes beyond healthy bonding and is...
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Principle # Ten: Education Is The Highest Form of Charity
Author's Transparency Declaration: I have a financial interest in a company that offers products and services that may be related to the content of my writings.This is an installment in a series called...
View Article6 Tips to Mindfully Make the Most of Your Day
Mindfulness is an idea from Buddhism that’s central to meditation, but it’s also a way of life and a crucial tool in living each moment to its fullest. You establish a practice of meditation in order...
View ArticleEnough!! How NOT To Over-Write
There’s a great moment in the classic film Key Largo, when gangster Edward G. Robinson is asked---given the extent of his wealth and power---what he could possibly still want. “More,” he famously...
View ArticleA Solution to the Border Crisis in Texas
Mr. Louie Gohmert, who is a Republican congressman from Texas, spoke on the floor of the House of Representatives recently about the dire situation in Texas resulting from thousands of children...
View ArticleThe State of Cancer Research across the Globe
Across the globe, approximately 15% of deaths are attributable to cancer (8.2 million total) (Brody, 2014). While advances in research and technology have enabled better prognosis for a host of...
View ArticleI Feel Your Central—or Maybe Peripheral—Pain
Like life, many of just don’t know what to make of fibromyalgia. Like love, it means different things to different individuals.Some say fibromyalgia does not deserve to be called a distinct entity....
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Navigating the Line Between Coaching and Distracting
Sport coaches are expected to impart knowledge, communicate effectively, constantly express passion, motivate, and develop the physical and psychological skills that will allow their athletes to...
View ArticleTwelve Ways to Ease Your Stress in Divorce
Divorce is not only be all consuming, it can be destructive in all spheres of life—physical, emotional, spiritual, social, and relational—yours and your child’s. You need to attend to your feelings and...
View ArticleWhen Parents Blame Their Children
One of the most difficult things I find myself doing as a psychotherapist is holding parents accountable. Typically when you have a teen engaging in unhealthy behavior, you have a parent who makes it...
View Article3 Ways to Stop Yelling at Your Kids
Last fall, the journal Child Development published research findings stating that yelling at your kids can be just as bad as spanking and could cause behaviour problems and emotional development...
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Oh, You Can Laugh When the Hearse Goes By
I’ve written before about the stories that Father Massey told me from his 32 years in the funeral business. He’s seen some interesting things. He told me the one about his extraordinary experience in...
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Explain Yourself!
In his incisive 2006 book Why?, Charles Tilly explains how we explain ourselves. According to Tilly, reasons fall into four overlapping categories: conventions, stories, codes, and technical...
View ArticleWhich Animal Has Most Changed the Course of History?
In the latest issue of the Atlantic magazine, ten people offer their opinion on the challenging and interesting question, "Which Animal Has Most Changed the Course of History?" I find their...
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Monty Python's "Bright Side of Life" Offers Some Bad Advice
(co-written with Lee Daniel Kravetz)It’s something to rejoice about! Monty Python, the iconic comedy troupe, has reunited on stage this week. It’s a big year for the group, given that it also marks...
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Signal of Stock Market Apocalypse?
Rupert Murdoch and his News Corp media powerhouse often buys other firms at the peak in the stock market. In addition, the last time Time Warner made serious M&A news was also at a peak. Does the...
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Sizzling Anger
The summer months are turning up the heat, but don't let your anger rise with the temperatures. Anger and summer go hand and hand, but you don't have to let the outside thermometer have an effect on...
View ArticleThe Good, The Bad, The Ugly of Working with Chronic Pain
Going to work when you have a chronic pain-causing condition is an achievement in and of itself, made worse with certain types of work. And even if you do make a promise to yourself to reliably show up...
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Our Social Media Obsession
As part of my continuing process of examining the impact of technology, my colleagues and I at the George Marsh Applied Cognition Lab have recently completed a large study looking at a variety of...
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