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Lovers' Ultimate Sex Hack: Karezza
Last year, there was a brief publicity flurry about a venerable, but little known, approach to sex called "karezza" (pronounced ka-RET-za). ABC ran a news story and karezza articles showed up from...
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Research, Risk, and Who Are You Calling a Scaredy Cat?
An introvert named David MacPhail who hangs out on my Facebook page questions the assertion that extroverts are bigger risk takers than introverts.“As an introvert I do not take the typical risks that...
View ArticleBlowing Up Weight-Loss Myths, One Step at a Time
I often feel I’m swimming upstream when it comes to thinking about food, weight and health. From the parents who regard me incredulously when I say that “healthy eating” is a bad goal to set for their...
View ArticleFriendship and Football
Maybe it’s because the Super Bowl is on Sunday. Not that I’ve ever given a lot of thought to football. But something that Kathie Lee and Hoda said on the Today Show this week—not about football—got me...
View ArticleThe Health Premium of Marriage: Personality or Sex?
In The Case for Marriage, Linda Waite and Maggie Gallagher (1) promote the advantages of marriage. Married people are healthier, wealthier, and live longer, they conclude. As people spend increasing...
View ArticleHow Sweet! You Remembered Our Inadversary!
Darling,I love us. That’s why I remember our kissiversary, the anniversary of our first kiss. And our sexiversary, the first time we got it on. We felt like we were a match made in heaven, knowing...
View ArticleGoing Inside Addiction Rehab
For a long time, I’ve been fascinated with how people who have substance abuse problems achieve sobriety. Having written a series of books about people who lost weight and kept it off (the Thin for...
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The Willpower Books of 2012
While 2012 is still visible in the rear-view mirror, let’s take a look at a trio of books about willpower published, and/or publicized, in 2012. If you feel poor in willpower, you will get rich quick...
View ArticleTerrorism in the Checkout Lane
No doubt you heard that shoppers at a Kroger supermarket in Charlottesville, VA got a bit of a scare yesterday evening when a 22-year-old man walked into the store toting a loaded AR-15 rifle. Sounds...
View ArticleWomen Don't Negotiate Because They're Not Idiots
If I hear once more that the reason for the wage gap is that women don't negotiate, I may just blow a gasket.Linda Babcock herself, the author of the studies that gave rise to the "women don't ask"...
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The What and the Why in Human Needs
Anyone who becomes acquainted with Nonviolent Communication (NVC) quickly learns about the critical role that human needs play in this approach. In my own mind, placing human needs front and center is...
View ArticleThink Your Way Thin
It’s a startling statistic, but research shows us that in 2009–2010, 35.7% of U.S. adults were obese.This number has remained relatively unchanged, but it translates to just under a whopping 80 million...
View ArticleTalk to Your Honey About Money
In that conversation when you checked whether your beloved is an “Aquarius” or “Pisces” you’d have done well to learn how your money “signs” matched, too.Money differences have real consequences.South...
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Valentine Special: The Origins of Love
A long time ago, there were three kinds of human beings: male, descended from the sun; female, descended from the earth; and androgynous, with both male and female elements, descended from the moon....
View ArticleVarieties of Love and Loss
Four forms of love were identified by the ancient Greeks: Philia (friendship), Eros (romantic, sexual love), Storge (parental affection), and Agape (love of humanity, of our fellow human beings). In my...
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Lying in Therapy
Why do people lie to their therapists?It happens more often that we realize. Most of us, as diligent and attentive as we like to believe we are, will be blindsided when we discover, through direct...
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Insider Interview: An Expert’s Thoughts on Changing Careers
In my consulting, I have worked with former marketers, IT executives, professional musicians, and those from other fields, all seeking admission to top graduate programs in order to complete degrees...
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Shunning – The Ultimate Rejection
In the past few months, the topic of shunning has presented itself to us one too many times to be ignored. And so we off-road from our usual topic of PTSD and delve into this unfortunately pervasive...
View ArticleWeight is Weighing on My Mind
Weight has been weighing on my mind recently. We are all still trying to shed the extra pounds of Christmas cookies and fruit cake (does anyone really eat that?) Ok, so I gained a few, but that’s...
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