Late last year when I decided to look for a book club, I was thinking about fiction. What I found was a book club for therapists and the first book for this year was “Science for Sexual Happiness.” I thought it would be perfect to look at sex and intimacy in February. Whether you are single or […]
So by this time of the year, the end of January where your resolutions have had time to be tested. Yesterday, I ran into a lady from my gym who said she hadn’t been in a couple of weeks because work has been too busy for her. That’s the thing about our goals, they are quickly interrupted […]
Talk of change is everywhere this time of year; more adds for workout equipment and gym memberships, weight loss programs and meal prep services, dating apps and jewelry commercials. And how many of those products are left abandoned in a corner gathering dust or totally forgotten about by March? Most of them. This year, if you sincerely want […]
I believe in change!!! If I didn’t, I would totally be in the wrong business. But I have long been on a one-person mission to discourage people from New Year resolutions because resolutions so often don’t work and end up making people feel worse than they felt before they started. They are all too often based on […]
Most of the stories we have out ourselves and the world around us have root in our families of origin. Some of these stories are good and help us build meaning in our lives. Then there are the negative stories that we struggle with until we learn to rewrite them. This time of year when we are spending […]
We all do it. When decide that our morning meeting or drive home or visit to the grocery store is going to go a certain way and we get upset when it does not go as planned. Each of us carries around a lot of stories, some good, some bad. We have stories about what it was […]
Welcome to the ‘eating season!’ It is in full swing. While I hear people sharing their plans for Thanksgiving, we are talking about the food we will all eat. The talk and temptation of food coupled with cold temperatures that encourage us all to stay indoors, make food and eating all the more alluring to snuggle up to. It’s […]
To me, the holidays are the eating season. It starts with Halloween (the best holiday of the year) and all the leftover candy that you tell everyone you bought for treat-or-treaters but you know you actually bought for yourself. Then it’s Thanksgiving, which brings us to the kick off to holiday party season that builds […]
It’s a truly terrible feeling to know that someone you care about is hurting and there is little you can do to help them. Today we are going to examine things you can do when you know someone you care about is depressed and you worry they are contemplating self-harm. Do unto others as you would […]