Who Gets Sick? When Dr. Sheldon Cohen and his team at Carnegie Mellon University studied which participants became sick after having a cold or flu virus squirted in…

Being able to heal past wounds and move on to live a happy, healthy life is a goal of many people who enter therapy. But what…

A Controlled Burn I live in Florida and lately, we’ve been in a drought. In order to decrease the likelihood of serious forest and brush fires…

Marina Abramovic This week I am compelled to tell you about an amazing documentary I recently watched on HBO of the performance artist, Marina Abramovic, titled The…

If you suffer from Seasonal Affective Disorder or SAD, then that first cool hint of air untinged by the humidity of summer doesn’t make you feel excited for the…

You know them… snarky people. The masters of that combination of sarcastic and cynical that ends up being smugly critical and absolutely unbearable to human beings after…

The Submarine Expert My husband tells this awesome story: Something’s gone wrong on a nuclear submarine and they call in “the expert” to help figure it…

Have A Crappy Day! One of the good things about positive psychology is that it encourages individuals to view the glass as half full instead of half empty….

If you’ve ever suffered an important loss in your life…whether it was the loss of a loved one, a beloved pet, or a special dream…then you…

Self-Doubt and Low Self-Esteem Not sure if you’re all that sexy and attractive? Do you constantly need approval from others? Are you never sure that you…

I’m Just Not Feeling It So, I asked, “You have to wait until you’re able to “get into” doing a chore before you can do it?”…

Have you survived something very difficult in your life? A tough childhood? A major trauma? An abusive marriage? It takes a lot to go through the…

I know there’s no such thing as a “happy 🙂 pill.”  But for some people, there are some medications that come close. The issue of psychotropic…

Why Can’t My Psychiatrist Be More Like My Therapist? “My psychiatrist doesn’t listen to me!” “I just walked out with 2 more prescriptions!” “15-minute med checks……

It is not necessary to change.  Survival is not mandatory. ~W. Edwards Deming This is a time of year when people often are readying themselves for…

You probably know what it’s like when the smoke alarm goes off.  The sound is so annoying, irritating, and ear-piercingly unbearable. Alarms are this way for…

Does This Sound Like You? You set goals for yourself, but if you don’t “feel like it,” you do nothing about them?  You have plans for the day,…

Many of you will be able to actually hear the GPS system’s voice in your head when you read the words: “You have reached your destination!”…

Vacation Poor America Of all developed countries in the world, Americans are the worst at taking time off from work. Compared to the good people in England,…

Imagine the following scenario: You are in a large, beautiful interior space with everything you need to accomplish any task that is put before you or…

What would YOU attempt to do if you KNEW you could not fail? Would you start your own business?  Would you learn how to play an…

Have you looked in a mirror lately? You were probably looking for something: spinach stuck in your teeth from lunch, a stain on your shirt, another laugh line. “The mirror…

Say you are fighting with your significant other. I know.  It’s not fun, but it happens. What do you think your partner wants the most from…

When I am working with clients in therapy, I often share with them this piece of universal wisdom: The extent to which you are willing to…

Not everyone makes New Year’s Resolutions… there are some people who don’t see the new year as a time for reinvention, recharging, reconditioning, reenergizing, reinvigorating, and…

I became a therapist thinking that people just naturally wanted to change, grow, get better, become healthier… and how cool was that going to be to…

Got Critics? Do you have people in your life who are, shall we say, “unsupportive” of you? How about downright discouraging? Critical? Judgmental? Dismissive? It may…

Everyone is looking for a good “life hack,” something that makes life easier and better. Here is one that definitely does both: it’s what I call…

Have you ever decided you were going to make a change in how you eat or how active you are and you make a plan and…

Love the concept of living off the grid? A home that creates its own energy and water supply, so that there is no need to pay…

The Curtain Falls You might have just hit a rough patch. Or maybe those feelings of inadequacy and self-doubt are part of a larger problem that…

Are you spending too much going out to eat? Trying to eat healthier, but getting either bored or overwhelmed with the process of meal planning and…

Why are people suffering from depression almost always also very tired? The relationship of depression to fatigue is very complicated, for the following reasons: 1. Fatigue…