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Have You Ever Been Stuck Between Two Options?
I love teaching stories–parables from the Bible, Zen stories, paradoxes, Aesop’s fables, koans. That’s one reason that I now use my weekly video to tell a story.One such story is the story of...
View ArticleSecession Might Be an Option After All
Secession is not an option, said the White House. But they hadn’t counted on my kid.Three years ago, Hugh, my then 13-year-old Aspergerian, acquired a new obsessive interest: micronations. Micronations...
View ArticlePaging God in Health Care
What if you could page God as you wait for medical test results? Wait to recover from the flu? Wait to see if your health insurance plan will cover a test or condition? Wait on hold to make a doctor’s...
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How To Stay Married To Your Complete Opposite
Life would be so much easier if I had married someone just like me, but with male genitalia. The only thing my husband, Brian, and I have in common is that we hate being opposites.In fact, just the...
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The Power of Imperfection in Your Relationship
On Valentine's Day, while many couples are happily making plans to celebrate, others are remembering the fight they had at breakfast, or the way they went to sleep the night before without saying, "I...
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Should We View Animals As Humanlike?
Human beings are intensely social creatures, so we have evolved to be particularly interested in the goings-on of other people: where they are, what they want, what they believe, who they like. We are...
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How To Deal With Insults And Put-Downs
Let us begin by thinking about the various kinds of insult that are out there. First, there are, of course, verbal insults, which can be either direct or, more commonly, indirect. Examples of indirect...
View ArticleAdolescent Abusing Drugs?: The 7 C’s of Leverage
In previous posts I have made the case that drug use during adolescence is risky and advocated that parents take action if it appears that their kid is using drugs. Many parents, though, either don’t...
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Dance so there is a tomorrow!
February 14th is Valentine’s Day, and perhaps you will go dancing. It is summer in the Southern Hemisphere, and on the beautiful island off the coast of New Zealand that I call home, the population...
View ArticleLovestruck, Lovesick, and Lovelock
Introduction: The passions of the lovestruck and lovesick are popular literary themes. Among them, none is more memorable than Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. Lovestruck Romeo: "See, how she leans her...
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Expand your View of Love this Valentine’s Day
Valentine’s Day can be such a mixed bag for many. Those in partnered relationships often feel disappointed that their relationships aren’t as romantic, magical, special, or hot as perhaps their...
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Truth, Beauty, and Goodness in the Digital Age
I recently read Howard Gardner's Truth, Beauty, and Goodness Reframed, and while I have several philosophical quibbles with some of what he says, I found many of his suggestions about education in the...
View ArticleHow Winning Works: Building Great Work Teams
John Paul (JP) Dulay is our guest blogger and book reviewer for this post. JP is a graduate student in Positive Developmental Psychology at Claremont Graduate University.Robyn Benincasa is a...
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Scientific American Misses on the Cause of Depression
Depression and anxiety are to emotional health what the coughs and sneezes of common colds are to physical health. They happen often, and yet, with savvy prevention, can be minimized in frequency and...
View ArticleNutrition Part One: Avoiding Harmful Foods
Along with exercise, attending to your diet is one of the most immediately effective changes you can make in your life. What we eat has a profound effect on our well-being, influencing everything from...
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When Addiction Treatment is One-Size-Fits-All
Wyatt D. said his years-long heroin addiction took him to residential rehab “probably at least 12 times”, which cost “over a million dollars.” He added, “I always went right back to using drugs,...
View ArticleThe Art and Practice of Visualization
While watching some pregame get-you-in-the-mood programming on TV, I saw a segment where a number of athletes talked about how they would visualize the game before it started, imagining how well they...
View ArticleThe Power of Sexual Selection
Most people understand how natural selection drives evolution. The variants within a species best adapted to their environment wind up winning the reproductive contest and their offspring inherit a...
View ArticleEnvironmental Territoriality & Me
If you’ve ever watched an episode of the popular TV series “The Big Bang Theory,” you probably know that Sheldon’s character has a ‘spot.’ For him, one end of the couch “is close enough to the radiator...
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