When your child says, "I hate you."
These three chilling words distress parents in households every day. Parents are terrified that after all their hard work and caring, their child does not love them. Memories of any feelings of...
View ArticleThe Best Kind of Travel Photography
Recently, I was fortunate enough to travel to New England at the peak of autumn. This meant a week of leaf-peeping and lobster-eating, lakeside hikes, and morning runs that doubled as quick tours of...
View ArticleSoylent Bad: America's Toxic Relationship With Food
With the advent of the Internet, reality television, and social media, American cuisine has experienced an interesting split between two extremes: between foodies who value meals and food as a way of...
View ArticlePsychiatry and Recovery: Complementary or Competitive?
In my last blog, Fuller Torrey described the dramatic deterioration of our mental health nonsystem and the resulting torment for the 600,000 severely ill who are either homeless or in prison (or...
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What Is the Role of Consciousness?
You are preparing for your upcoming exam, reading through thousands of pages. Suddenly you realize that you forgot to pay attention to what you actually read. You were reading along but your thoughts...
View ArticleMorality and the Focus on Outcomes
In many public situations, we make judgments about people’s commitment to carry through on their stated views. Politicians express commitments to issues ranging from immigration to same-sex marriage....
View ArticleTo Feel Meaningful Is to Feel Immortal
Imagine when our ancestors first started to look up at the stars and question their place in the universe. Why are we here? Are we alone? What happens to us when we die? It is difficult to know for...
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Well-Doing + Well-Being for Children
Special Guest Blogger: Tom Lottman, Children, Inc., Covington, KY“…..all our morality appears but as a plaster hiding a sore it can never cure, and all our well-doing as the hollowest substitute for...
View Article“My Intentions Are Good. Don’t They Count for Everything?”
Consider these two dialogues:Hunter: I’m sorry that you’re upset with me.Logan: But you’re not sorry that you did it, right? Sounds like you’re blaming me and my upsetness for the problem here.Hunter:...
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Smart Collars Monitor Your Dog's Activity and Health
In a recent article I wrote about research which was attempting to equip dogs with the latest computer based equipment so that the dog could be remotely monitored and controlled (click here to see that...
View ArticleWhen you lose friends after a divorce
QUESTIONHi Irene,I am a 53-year-old woman with two great kids, both in college, and I’m divorced after 18 years of marriage.Making friends has never been easy for me but when the kids where younger, I...
View ArticleGod Esteem vs. Self-Esteem
I am not religious (in the organized religion sense), but I have been on a journey to become and feel spiritual.Why? Because I know there is more and even much more to life than "living in a material...
View ArticleWill Your Genes Keep You Happy & Healthy to 110?
Centenarian is the word for people who live to be at least 100 years old. Centenarians should not be confused with Centurions, who are Roman soldiers commanded by Caesars; they often did not live very...
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Women with More Male Friends Have More Sex
Sperm competition is a theory of evolutionary psychology which argues that men are primed to engage in more sex, when they believe that they (and their sperm) might have to compete with the sperm of...
View ArticleWhy do I always give up……?
Have you ever said, with grit and determination, that you are going to do something only to then give up? Lose weight, quit smoking, exercise more? Have you heard your friends say the same and then...
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Holiday Sanity
The holidays bring predictable media images of large get-togethers with lots of smiling faces. People are laughing, wrapping presents and visiting friends who offer delicious treats to sample in front...
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Our First Birthday
This blog has been up for a year now and we wish to thank you dear readers! Your comments have advised us, your stories inspired us, and your readership encouraged us. Reflecting on our first...
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The Greatest Gift You Can Give Your Kids
We don't serve the needs of our children when we neglect our relationship in order to attend to them. It can sometimes feel as if there is a competition for attention between our partner and our kids....
View ArticleHow Birth Control Pills Affect Women's Sexuality
Soon after the first oral contraceptive was approved in 1960, The Pill quickly became one of the world’s most popular birth control methods. More than 100 million women worldwide have used it, and...
View ArticleDon't Let This One Word Destroy Your Loving Relationship
I have virtually eliminated the word, "should" from my vocabulary. I believe this word, consistent with the tenets of cognitive therapy, creates a controlling, judgmental dynamic. Thinking "should"...
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