Last Sunday, my favorite football team lost a game. There’s nothing remarkable about that. However, it was the way they lost that provoked me. They were well ahead at halftime, shutting out... Read more »
In my previous post, I discussed the common origins of estrangement between parent and adult child during the emptying of the family nest. I shared the story of Robert, who, you may... Read more »
Personal Perspective: Learning about myself without the cloak of marriage between me and me is among the challenges of being widowed. Source link Read more »
“Whoever is dissatisfied with himself is continually ready for revenge, and we others will be his victims, if only by having to endure his ugly sight.” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science,... Read more »
Have you ever closed a dating app feeling more tired than when you opened it? If you have, you are in good company. In 2024, a survey of 1,000 Americans who used... Read more »
Imagine you are looking at a computer screen that shows two cows on one side and one dog on the other. You hear a sentence, and your job is to pick the... Read more »
In January 2024, while I was a graduate student in the Master of Applied Positive Psychology program at the University of Pennsylvania under the supervision of Dr. Martin Seligman, he asked me... Read more »
“They should see it. It’s good for them.” Some dysfunctional families believe that children need to learn about and be exposed to what they call “real life.” Perhaps, as children, the adults... Read more »
Maybe our sense of global belonging is a matter of perspective. Zoom out, and a viewer might see something as complex as a sprawling ant colony: humans building infrastructure and working collectively,... Read more »
This weekend I traveled to my daughter’s house to help care for my 1-year-old granddaughter. After the first day, I developed a dizziness that made me need to lie in bed. Eventually,... Read more »