The verdict delivered on March 25, 2026, holding Meta and Google responsible for purposefully designing social media platforms to be addictive, and knowing it can be harmful, is flawed at multiple levels.... Read more »
Anxious people try to control uncertainty. Because many real-life scenarios, especially important ones, contain irreducible uncertainty, that strategy can fall apart. But there are specific lessons we can learn to handle this... Read more »
Vulnerability and perfectionism are diametrically opposed. And that’s what perfectionists prefer. If we consider the idea of masking as it relates to autism and acknowledge that perfectionism is pronounced in the population... Read more »
I’m a parent. I love being a parent. I grow basil. I love making pesto. Every year around March or so, when winter starts to fade and spring peeks around the corner,... Read more »
Imagine the characters in a separation or divorce, amid overt and covert problems. How people end a marriage, who chatters to whom, what they think and do, and how they resolve differences... Read more »
Yogi Berra, baseball legend and accidental philosopher, once gave his friend Joe Garagiola directions to his house in Montclair, New Jersey. “When you come to a fork in the road,” he said,... Read more »
When people think about sports, attention is often driven to athletes’ physical abilities, psychological endurance, and team-based achievements (Sarkar & Fletcher, 2014). A far less visible but equally significant aspect of the... Read more »
Human-caused climate change is now affecting everyone around the world. Its health impacts are being tracked, focusing on physical health. Tracking climate change’s mental health impacts is far trickier. No long-term, global... Read more »
How Your Heart Prepares for Tomorrow’s Stress Challenges and threats both raise daytime heart rates significantly. Threats increase blood pressure more than challenges do. Anticipating a challenge actually lowers your sleeping heart... Read more »
Over a year ago, I wrote a post about how trauma is “not just in your head”. Here, I follow it up with corroborating evidence. I’ve dedicated most of my life to... Read more »