Pandemic Psychology
Overcoming the fight, flight, or freeze response in relation to the pandemic. A number of years ago, I read two fascinating books written...
How to Feel Less Lonely by Facing Yourself
Three ways to shift your perspective on loneliness. Everyone has experienced loneliness. Yet, each person seems to think their experience...
What Parenting Styles Set Kids Up for Emotional Abuse?
Research looks at key developmental influences on adult relationships. Beyarslan and Uzer, authors of a recent paper in the journal...
Three Reasons It Can Be Hard to Know What You Really Want
These factors may cloud your perception. To create a fulfilling life, we need to know what fulfills us. But knowing this isn’t as simple...
How Anxious Attachment Style Affects Relationships
How anxious attachment forms and goes on to affect our relationships Relationships are very much about give and take. At their best, they...
September is Suicide Prevention Month
We Can All Prevent Suicide Understanding the issues concerning suicide and mental health is an important way to take part in suicide...
Dealing with the back-to-school blues?
Back-to-school can be a stressful time, but parents can help children successfully cope with the end of summer vacation and the beginning...
Dealing with Childhood Trauma in Adult Therapy
Addressing the trauma-trouble link in therapy. While the notion that early trauma may be linked to psychological and behavioral problems...
Strategies for controlling your anger: Keeping anger in check
Uncontrolled anger can be problematic for your personal relationships and for your health. Fortunately, there are tools you can learn to...
People who think their opinions are superior to others are most prone to overestimating their releva
We all know someone who is convinced their opinion is better than everyone else’s on a topic – perhaps, even, that it is the only correct...