Denying reality so you can keep using is common. Perhaps you have become an expert at lying and conniving so you can keep using. Maybe drugging or drinking is the only way you believe you can [...]
Perspective is the way we look at things. The perfect example of that is “Is the glass half-empty, or is the glass half-full?” This is such a perfect example because the answer is correct either way, [...]
Sure, you’ve heard the mottos, proverbs, and sayings. Stuff like “If you think you can, or if you think you can’t, you’re right.” Well, truth be told, there really is something to this. Positive thinking is [...]
As you read down this list, please put a check mark next to each description that you feel describes you. At the end, you will have created a mirror. The descriptions you select will tell you [...]
The answer is that once addiction takes hold, it gets to be a disease. For example, if you are pre-diabetic and don’t do the things you should, you become a diabetic. If you continue to put [...]
There is a course now being given at Harvard University that is being called the university’s most popular course. It is called positive psychology, and it is referred to by many as Happiness 101! The course [...]
King Solomon, the biblical king, was said to be the wisest man in the world. He wrote thousands of proverbs and sayings, and interestingly, many of them, if not most, are as profound today as they [...]
This is the session my clients like best of all. I call it “the movie.” After doing a progressive relaxation (which I will describe at the end of this post), where everyone is truly relaxed in [...]
Every nineteen minutes, someone dies from a drug overdose in the US. This is triple the rate of overdose in 1990, according to the Center of Disease Control. Stop here for a moment and let that [...]
Fear can be paralyzing, how much more so when one has to deal with complicated fear. Complicated fear has no escape route. No place of safety. Damned if you do, damned if you don’t. It is [...]
