When at a stoplight, do you instinctively pick up your phone? What about when you’re standing in a checkout line? When someone you love is upset, do you find yourself swooping in... Read more »
You’ve just met someone amazing. The connection is electric, the dates are great, and your mind is already buzzing with possibilities. But right at this “most dangerous point” in dating, relationship expert... Read more »
There is a question I wish clients would ask their therapists. It cuts to the heart of what therapy is about. And under the right circumstances, it may even accelerate their treatment.... Read more »
If you’re in a long-distance relationship (LDR), you know the commitment is immense. You’re pouring your energy, hope, and emotional investment into a connection that, by its nature, comes with high uncertainty.... Read more »
Each year, two to three million children under 18 in the United States lose one or both parents. The loss of any important person in a child’s life, whether a parent, grandparent,... Read more »
In the year 2010, neuroscientists used advanced brain imaging to confirm what the Stoics had intuited 2,300 years ago: Our emotions move faster than our reason. Within just 40 milliseconds of seeing... Read more »
If you were involved in a youth group, sports team, summer camp, or after-school program as a child, chances are you can still recall the smell of the campfire, the sound of... Read more »
As you may have noticed, pretty much everybody worships authenticity. It’s everywhere right now. In brands. In consumer culture. In how we talk about restaurants, designer handbags, and even office cultures. When... Read more »
In their classic 1998 textbook on cognitive neuroscience, Michael Gazzaniga, Richard Ivry, and George Mangun made a sobering observation: there was no clear mapping between how we process language and what was... Read more »
Awkward, anxious, vulnerable. Three more words to describe adolescence. That’s adding to insecure, the single word I chose to summarize teen turbulence in Part 1 of this three-part series that explores the... Read more »