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Stop Suffering and Start Living
The Buddha once said, “Life is suffering; suffering is just part of life.” No doubt that if we live long enough, sooner or later tragedy will strike. The negative experiences that come our way are just...
View ArticleIs Grief a Mental Illness?
When Meg’s* boyfriend told her that the relationship was over, she could not stop crying. “It was like a kick in the stomach. Like someone I loved told me that they were critically ill. And now I feel...
View ArticleBring Back Bartering
Child philosophers marvel at the power of “pieces of paper with old men on them.” When we talk about the origins of money, these "thin, crumbly sheets" merely serving as tangible guarantees of future...
View Article8 Steps for helping your older child adjust to the new baby
“When we told our three year old that we were going to have a baby, she packed her teddy bear in a gym bag and headed for the door. We asked her where she was going and she said, 'I have to find new...
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PTSD and Depression
Trauma is an event where an experience bears down on your physical and emotional life. It can be mild, like when someone cuts in front of you while you’re driving; moderate, as in the car careening...
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One Size Does Not Fit All
One Size Does Not Fit AllA Therapist’s Thoughts on TherapyJulie Jaffee Nagel, Ph.D. Stage fright is a mystifying and unnerving experience for many performing musicians and often impedes professional...
View ArticleFuneral for a Friend—the Death of Superman
According to DC Comics, the Doomsday machine killed Superman in 1992. I was sorry to learn of his passing, because when I was a kid we all wanted to be Superman. Of course, that meant flying through...
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Will You Still Need Me? Will You Still Feed Me?
Here's a chance to catch a glance of the future that lies ahead for you. If you want to get a pretty good idea of how your children will treat you in your senior years, take a look in the following...
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More Than a Feeling
Last Sunday was the memorial service for a longtime friend and member of the community where I lived for nearly 20 years. At the same time, we learned that the college-age son of another couple had...
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Fighting Suicidal Thoughts
Suicide was defined by the sociologist Emile Durkheim as applying to ‘all cases of death resulting directly or indirectly from a positive or negative act of the victim himself, which he knows will...
View ArticleChelsea, Barca, Batman
Welcome to this unanticipated post. More correctly, the post is anticipated but the content isn’t. The choice of content came about from watching a most extraordinary football game. (Of course we...
View ArticleThe Beauty of a Quickie
"Those who would climb to a lofty height must go by steps, not leaps." St. Gregory the GreatYou live in a world that feels at times as if it’s moving at hyper speed. You...
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Janusian Creative Thinking
Dr. Albert Rothenberg, a noted researcher on the creative process, has extensively studied the use of opposites in the creative process. He identified a process he terms “Janusian thinking,” a process...
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The Quiet Fear of Miscarriage
“Don’t tell everyone just yet.”“Wait.”“You haven’t really announced, though, right?”“It’s so early!”I was never going to keep from getting my hopes up. I was never going to keep from falling in love...
View ArticleDog and Soldiers: No Licks Barred
Given all the negativity that pervades the media, it's wonderful when there's some good news. These video clips of dogs and their human friends reuniting will surely bring tears of joy to your eyes....
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Pity, Respect, and the We/She Dynamic
In my last post, I talked about “othering” autism. What exactly is othering? Some who responded to the post seemed to feel that othering and ill will are synonymous. That if the latter doesn’t...
View ArticleEvil Reinvents Itself
Anders Breivik, the 33-year-old mass murderer of 69 innocent teenagers, tearfully confessed to “barbaric measures” to save his “dying country.” He “humanized” Norway. He “dehumanized” people. Is he...
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WikiWaysofLiving
Knowledge keeps growing and a major source of learning how to live comes from our searches on the web. However, there is too much for any one person to absorb, and the hits for any one question that we...
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When Red Looks Blue and Yes Means No
When Red Looks Blue and Yes Means No By Scott G. Eberle, Ph.D. on April 25, 2012 in Play in Mind A classic psychology experiment based in a simple, funny, yet devilish game shows how play reveals the...
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Religion and Reason
Your answer to the following riddle can predict whether you are a believer in religion or a disbeliever: Q: If a baseball and bat cost $110, and the bat costs $100 more than...
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