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Always On, All the Time: Are We Suffering From FoMO?
FoMO: Fear of Missing OutI used to snicker at those people who couldn't sit through a 90-minute movie without checking their text messages or social media and wondered why anyone would want to disrupt...
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Robonanny
Birth rates in richer countries, such as the US, Japan and throughout Europe are falling and even countries like Sweden with a government campaign of supporting parents are not replacing their...
View ArticleTerrorism and Mental Health
Headline stories about crimes, especially terrorism, dominate the news. Even entertainment programs have devoted considerable on-air time to exploring the recent attacks in Boston.Horrific events like...
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Not Getting Clean: Its a Killer
In his recent book Clean, author David Sheff writes about addiction treatment and why it fails to help so many addicts. The idea for the book came out of his struggles helping his son with his...
View ArticleThe Break-Up
Me: MWF (married, white, female).I enjoy: Long walks on the beach, short jogs on asphalt, planting Cheerios in mud with my kids and making vision boards with yarn.Some adjectives to describe myself:...
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Does Anyone Deserve Anything?
Although Nonviolent Communication (NVC) has the word “communication” as part of its title, I agree with Kit Miller, friend and fellow on the path, who says that “NVC is an awareness discipline...
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Using Yoga Principles to Find Peace at Work
There is much more to yoga than doing poses on a mat. A new book, Yoga Wisdom at Work, co-authored by Maren and Jamie Showkeir, shows how the practice has concrete, pragmatic applications that can...
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What We Know From 20 Years of LGBTQ Research in Education
This blog post is adapted from a talk I gave on April 30, 2013 at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association in San Francisco. The asterisks refer to cues to advance the...
View ArticleIs It Healthier to Live with Someone?
There are people who believe that getting married transforms sickly single people into healthy couples. I think they are wrong. They use cheater techniques to make their case, and even then, getting...
View Article10 Ways to Make Memory Rehab Work
Physical exercise can rehabilitate bodies that have grown soft and flabby. Can mental exercise rehabilitate brains that have deteriorated because of disease or age? Maybe.A published scholarly review...
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Ya Gotta Drip Some Sweat to Change Things
It being spring and my no longer being a spring chicken, I signed up at the local gym. I signed up for a workout system called Crossfit, that I thought offered a consistent and effective philosophy....
View ArticleConfronting Passive Aggressive Behavior
One of my favorite stories about passive aggressive behavior in a marriage goes like this:“Cash, check or charge?" I asked, after folding the items the woman wished to purchase. As she fumbled for her...
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Hands Touching Hands: To Boston with Love
The sounds of “Sweet Caroline” rang out in baseball fields across the nation when the Red Sox played their first home game after the Boston Marathon tragedy. Neil Diamond made a trip to Fenway Park to...
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The Price of Sex: Women Rule, Men Drool, the Market's Cruel
Sex is commonly thought of as a private, intimate event that occurs behind closed doors. We like to think of making love in its personal, romantic context. We often describe or imagine the sexual event...
View ArticleThe Treatment of Health Anxiety
Health anxiety is, simply, a condition in which certain individuals (“health worriers”) worry too much about their health. They include patients who cross a number of theoretical and diagnostic...
View ArticleCatherine Zeta-Jones is Bipolar. So What?
A little over two years ago, when actress Catherine Zeta-Jones announced that she was bipolar, a frenzy of publicity erupted. That evening it was one of the lead stories on the NBC Nightly News with...
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Bill Gates and Better Condoms: Error 404?
Progress has stalled on teen condom use to ward off the spread of STIs. Bill Gates is convinced that better condoms will increase condom use by making sex more pleasurable. To this end, "His foundation...
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The Lesson of the Lilac
A suite of arched lilacs grace the field’s edge. Their stems are strong trunks, lined and hardy after decades of living. Gnarled roots are no longer separate from the pungent soil. Earth and plant have...
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How To Fire Someone Effectively But (Hopefully) With Dignity
No one likes to do it but let’s assume in this case it needs to be done. Let’s assume that for reasons of talent, or effort, or behavior, or cultural fit, or whatever, you as the manager have...
View ArticleHow to Be Assertive, Not Aggressive
Drawing the line between aggressiveness and assertiveness has always been difficult to navigate when trying to achieve career advancement. When you feel you need to make a stand, you may second-guess...
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