PRAISE FOR PATIENCE: A lost virtue
I have been thinking about how a year of the COVID pandemic has forced people to make changes or maybe [...]
HOW TO NAVIGATE THE NEW YEAR: Setting goals, intentions or “leaning in”.
Some of us think holding on makes us strong but sometimes it is letting go. Herman Hesse Let go [...]
RECOVERING FROM CHALLENGING EXPERIENCES
This has been quite a tumultuous time so far! How do we process change and uncertainty, change that affects routines, [...]
IMPROVING YOUR RESILIENCE
I found this article I wrote in 2012 and I thought it would be very timely given the challenges we [...]
OUR SOCIAL BRAIN AND INTERPERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS
What we thought we knew about the brain is shifting rapidly because of the research of the past 10 years. [...]
WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT TRAUMA AND PTSD
Do you have any of these symptoms? If you have any of the following you might have post traumatic symptoms [...]
THE PROBLEM WITH WORRY
There is a conversation in the movie Bridge of Spies when Tom Hanks says to Mark Rylance "Aren't you worried" [...]
THERAPY EXPLAINED: What to expect
This blog post is meant to unravel the puzzle that is therapy. In the past therapy was considered only for [...]
EXPRESSING ANGER CONSTRUCTIVELY
Expressing anger in a constructive way is challenging and in many situations almost impossible. First we need to locate the [...]