Helping an Eating Disordered Child: "Come from a Place of Compassion"
Last week, I wrote about Renfrew Center of Texas psychologist Lara Pence’s webinar presentation on the interplay between eating disorders and the tween and teen girl’s psychological and social...
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Prevent Infidelity
Did you know that 55-65 % of men cheat and 45-55% of women cheat? It may seem it’s about sex, but in reality sex is better at home. Why then do spouses cheat? The main reason is lack of emotional...
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Sticks and Stones May Break Our Bones, But Some Words Make Us Materialistic
Among the most consistent findings in the study of human behavior is this: the more people value pursuing material wealth and the accumulation of material possessions, the less happy they are. It's not...
View ArticleWe Are Natural Born Followers
If you are bold enough, please try this. Stand still in a busy shopping street and stare at the sky. At some point someone will stop and follow your eye gaze. Soon others will stop what they are doing...
View ArticleJealousy, Beauty, and Trolls
Last week, Samantha Brick published a now rather infamous essay in the UK Daily Mail, on the “downsides” of being as beautiful as she is, or feels herself to be. Her point was that women had treated...
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Slow Fashion with Jaimie Hilfiger
Wearing an organic t-shirt makes me feel, I don’t know, more noble. It’s a different kind of fashion statement to care about how your clothes got made – and by whom. With reports about child labor and...
View ArticleSpeech Discrimination in Bilingual Infants
Anything that has to do with bilingual infants captures our attention, as it should. One particularly exciting domain pertains to how early and how well they discriminate the sounds of their different...
View ArticleEducating Adolescents About Coping With Change
Counseling with parents and adolescents, I am usually helping them manage one or more of the 4 C’s in the Curriculum of Family Life—Caring, Communication, Conflict, and Change.How do they express...
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Making Important Decisions When Sleepy Is Like Rolling The Dice
Putting off an important decision until you’ve had a chance to think it through (instead of relying on impulse) has always been a good idea. “Let me sleep on it and get back to you tomorrow” sums this...
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Is This Normal?
As I slowly began to awaken, in the dim light of the bedroom I saw a small, still figure. The dark silhouette was nearly motionless and seemed to be staring directly at me. A sense of dread filled me...
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Rebooting You
In our exciting times we have more new opportunities and choices then ever before. We also live in a culture that also offers more compelling demands on our time then ever before.For many of us...
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The Incarnate Angel: Leonardo, Homosexuality, and Sublimation
The ego defense of sublimation is an important one, and is considered by many to be the most successful of all the ego defenses. If a person feels angry with his boss, he may go home and kick the...
View ArticleRole Models and the Real World
"Who will be my role model, now that my role model is gone?" —Paul SimonThese are tough times for role models. I'm not a football fan, and I haven't spent a lot of time in Arkansas. A week ago, you...
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Today's Resolution: Feel Grateful for the Basics
For the last few days, I've been struggling with a very unstable computer (yes, this is apparently a technical term).It seems to be behaving itself now, and I am so happy! I take my word-processor, my...
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Move Past Your Distress to a Happier Future
I can almost feel the distress of many new patients as they either trudge or hustle through my door in search of relief. In differing ways, they are each deeply affected by sadness, anxiety, anger, and...
View ArticleNon-reactive Listening
Jules and Sue came into marriage counseling clueless as to why there was so much pain and suffering in their relationship. After listening to each of them describe their situation however, it became...
View ArticleWhich Comes First? Desire? Or Sex?
For most men, libido is a “drive” that propels them toward sex. They want it and they go after it. But recent studies show that when many women, perhaps most, begin sexual encounters, they feel...
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Drinking in the Workplace: Cool Perk or Slippery Slope?
“They say a man’s work is never done. They say you can’t mix business with pleasure. They say that good things come to those who wait.”—Anheuser Busch Super Bowl 2012 commercial...
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String Theory: Attaching Incentives to Assist in Weight Control
Since weight loss and continued maintenance of that loss require continued surveillance, most people need all the help they can to stay on track. Not only must they have a sense of self-efficacy, i.e.,...
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Bach Star
At 10, Evan Shinners used to play "Louie-Louie" for two hours a day, without pause. It was always the same three chords, but he made up different lyrics for it. It was then the colors began to appear...
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