The Conversation Skill Most of Us Never Learn

Most of us think listening means staying quiet while someone else talks. We nod, wait our turn, and hope we’ve understood what they meant. The trouble is that silence isn’t the same... Read more »

Meditation Is Having Its Gallup Moment

A new global study on meditation and well-being arrives at a moment of rising stress, loneliness, declining mental health, and workplace burnout. If used well, it could do what the best public-opinion... Read more »

How Sci-Fi Films Predicted AI’s Psychological Toll

Are you experiencing decision fatigue or cognitive overload after using ChatGPT? Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly influencing people’s daily decision-making, but it may also be creating more cognitive strain, attention deficits, and... Read more »

Can We Talk About the Mental Load?

Can we talk about the mental load? This is not a new topic. Women have been talking about this for years. Honey, do we have more diapers? Sweetie, where are his clean... Read more »

Why Reasoning With an Upset Child Can Make Things Worse

Erin, a mom at her wits’ end, looked at me pleadingly and said, “Dr. Jeff, what am I missing here? I was being completely reasonable with Paige” (names have been changed to... Read more »

When a Therapist Writes Literary Fiction

The therapeutic use of literary works of art–novels, short stories, and the like–fall under the broad term bibliotherapy when employed as a means to heighten or expand the dialogue, deepen the core... Read more »

The Astonishing Power of Owning Your Story

What do a murderous silent era movie star and the first female gondolier have in common? What they share is that they never were. Fatty Arbuckle didn’t murder actress Virginia Rappe, and... Read more »

Navigating Adaptive and Maladaptive Dependence

Dependence is the state of relying on someone or something to help improve your functioning. Dependence may be reasonable or unreasonable. Here are the good, the bad, and the ugly aspects of... Read more »

Trapped by a Partner’s Defensiveness? Change Your Response

In my last post, I shared an example of a woman who broke, mentally, physically, and spiritually. I described the moment when her body took over and announced that it couldn’t take... Read more »

How George Soros Trades on Animal Instincts

George Soros built one of the great trading records in financial history, in large part due to his theory of reflexivity. But by his own account, some of his biggest portfolio pivots... Read more »
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