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Lost and Found: Women’s Identities Within the Family
The other day, I was talking with Lynn, a woman whose husband had left her unexpectedly about a year ago. She was past the uber-crisis period and slowly rebuilding her life. Although she had suffered...
View ArticleRelationship Self-Esteem: Contingent Connection
Relationships, when they are good, are so very good. They can fill us up, make us feel complete, enhance who we are as a person, and contribute to a sense of self-worth. But what happens...
View ArticleA Snowboarding Crow Playing and Having Fun
Many nonhuman animals (AKA animals) love to play and we can learn a lot about ourselves by watching them do so. Animals spend time playing socially with other individuals and when no one else is around...
View ArticleMy Heart Has a Mind of Its Own
"The heart has its reasons which reason does not understand." Blaise Pascal"I told this heart of mine our love could never beBut then I hear your voice and something stirs inside of meSomehow I can't...
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Life Online: Has Push Back Begun?
There was something in the air this holiday season, and beyond. If I heard it once, I heard it a half a dozen times, "I'm waiting for a reply;" "Everything is in limbo;" "Nothing is moving forward;"...
View ArticleGrowing Stress Free in the Office
I wanted to say thanks to Brian Jenkins for sending this article to me. I appreciate hearing from others how stress might be managed and the following is one easy way to start to work on stress in the...
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So You Want to be an Art Therapist, Part Seven: Art Therapist Identity...
Last year I posted a six-part series called "So You Want to be an Art Therapist," covering education, credentials, and challenges involved in undertaking art therapy as a profession. Just when I...
View ArticlePutting a Face to Prosopagnosia
Periodically, I receive email messages from people wishing to get my advice or feedback on their own independent projects related to prosopagnosia. I'm always happy to share of my own experiences. In...
View ArticleChronic Pain’s Paralell Universe: Congenital Analgesia
Being unable to feel pain sounds enticing, but people with congenital analgesia frequently bite their tongues, break bones or burn themselves without being aware of it, sometimes leading to severe...
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Male on Male Rape
You may think your life is over, but it isn't if you don't want it to be. This is what I told a young man who had been raped by another man. After dropping off his girlfriend, he walked home along the...
View ArticleNo Social Life in High School: My Part-Time Friends
Why are my high school friends only my friends when we're at school? QUESTION Dear Irene, I'm a senior in high school and have no social life whatsoever. It's not that I have no friends--I have a group...
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Are You Really as Far Along as You Think You Are?
For the New Year, in the month of January, we have been discussing recovery and finding your path to emotional wellness from pathological love relationships in 2012.When women get mild relief from the...
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Lose Half Your Brain and You Might Feel Better
Hello readers! Happy New Year and all that. I took a few weeks off for the holidays and went to visit family and friends back in Toronto. It was a time of heart-warming reconnection with people I've...
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Dr. King and Inner Healing
I attended a couple of events yesterday for Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. People spoke of how Dr. King was - even more than a great leader - a great servant. He served a purpose higher than himself with...
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What’s the Most Beautiful Explanation?
Every year John Brockman and the other folks behind Edge.org pose a question to dozens of scientists, writers, artists, inventors, and thinkers of various stripes. Their responses are collected at...
View ArticleIn Defense of The Pursuit of Mastery
There's been a lot of talk, especially in the blogosphere, about having the freedom to put together a basket of interests, to pursue a wide variety of things simultaneously and figure out how to do do...
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Is sex dead?
Is sex dead?Or, at best, obsolete?You wouldn't think so, seeing how many sitcoms (How I met your mother, Sex and the City, etc.) and reality shows (Teen Mom, Jersey Shore, etc. etc.) revolve around...
View ArticleThree Theories of Depression, Love Addiction, and Obesity
The Times presented an interesting discussion by a psychiatrist about how he disagrees with evolutionary psychologists (them again!) who seek to explain mood disorders -- specifically depression -- in...
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