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Speaking Out When Witnessing Abuse
Greg was a junior in college who came to see me because he felt “insecure with girls.” As we talked about his past, one incident caught my attention. Greg said that when he was 8 years old, his large...
View ArticleThe Best Kept Secret to Longevity: Love
Look younger! Feel more vibrant! Boost your stamina! Live Longer! Those are the promises made to us by marketing gurus about countless products from facial creams to dietary supplements, from the...
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A Placental Prognosis for Autism
Why do people adopt new and usually—at the time—highly controversial theories? One reason often is that the new theory reveals parts of a bigger picture that the old one never could. Copernicus’s...
View ArticleWhen Should Parents Intervene in Adolescent Troubles?
It can be a fine line for parents to draw – between respecting their adolescent’s ownership of troubles, or to intervene and rescue to stay the harm. To remain uninvolved or to interfere, that is the...
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Residential Care Facilities for the Elderly (RCFEs)
Nearly 9,000 Residential Care Facilities for the Elderly (CFEs), known as assisted living facilities, exist in California with a capacity of almost 225,000 beds—equaling the population of Chula Vista...
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View ArticleThe Paradox of Trauma
The idea that traumatic experiences can be converted into opportunities for personal growth has long been noted in literature, religion and philosophy, but only over the past decade have these ideas...
View ArticleCreativity and the Healing Brain
For Jon Sarkin, it began in 1988 when he suddenly began experiencing tinnitus and abnormally sensitive hearing to certain sounds. A successful chiropractor with a practice in South Hamilton,...
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Do You Know Where the Nearest Fire Alarm Is?
At a recent fire-safety meeting, Dr. Keith Holyoak, an indisputably brilliant psychologist, was stumped. A safety inspector asked if he knew the location of the fire extinguisher nearest to his office....
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The Most Basic Freedom is Freedom to Quit
We like to think of human rights in affirmative terms, so we speak most often of our rights to move toward what we want: our rights to vote, assemble freely, speak freely, and choose our own paths to...
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Guest House to Your Emotions
Fully feeling and being aware of your emotions are central to what it means to live. Otherwise, you are just existing – robotically accomplishing and achieving without ‘heart.’ And so it’s important to...
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Daughters of Unloving Mothers: 7 Common Wounds
In the years since I researched and wrote Mean Mothers, I’ve talked to women about our shared experiences. Every woman’s story is different, of course; perhaps the greatest commonality is the...
View ArticleFeed Your Brain, Feed Your Life: The Science of Everyday Mi
Practicing ‘mindfulness’ may seem like an abstract or unfamiliar concept, but that’s because it is a word used to encapsulate what actually represents a way of living life. We spend a lot of our time...
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How to Boost Your Creative Output
In his wildly popular 2006 TED talk, Sir Ken Robinson defined creativity as “the process of having original ideas that have value.” Aside from being wonderfully succinct, this definition implies that...
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Preparing for Death
One in five Americans still die using emergency services, with more than 14% of these deaths occurring among patients 85 years and older. Although death is our only exit strategy in life, few of us are...
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“Texting, Texting 123”
Donna Moss, LCSW-R is a skilled adolescent therapist who writes about the Internet and on other issues in mental health. I hope you enjoy her three part series on teens in the texting era. We are...
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The Battle for Same-Sex Marriage: It's Almost Over
The conversation has come out of the closet. and gone national.Prediction: It is inevitable. Same sex marriage will win all the rights and advantages of heterosexual marriage, Perhaps not in one fell...
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Frustration and Violent Video Games
If you talk to people who enjoy violent video games, they give many reasons for playing. Some just like the chance to do things that they would never do in real life. Others enjoy the chance to get...
View ArticleNot All Mothers are Loving and Kind
Mother's Day is approaching and card stores and grocery stores are filled with lovely greeting cards praising every aspect of motherhood: "You've been the best mother anyone could have,""ever-loving,...
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