We constantly overfeed our brains with digital inputs. Discover how to practice “mental fasting” to heal emotional exhaustion and restore your inner peace. I remember eating at a restaurant in Monaco with... Read more »
Key Points Psychologists traditionally group positive emotions together, but distinct feelings like cheer, tranquillity, and contentment have entirely different relationships with depression. A multi-sample study reveals that low contentment prospectively predicts future... Read more »
Money is never about dollars and cents. Depending on your history, it could represent security, freedom, fear, identity, or belonging. For some people, including myself, money feels like safety after a childhood... Read more »
In this post, I continue to explore the paradoxical nature of our human psychology. How is the human mind capable of both breathtaking creativity and unprecedented destruction? How can we create symphonies,... Read more »
Who’s in charge here? Something is changing in how we think, and it doesn’t announce itself as an issue or problem. In fact, it sometimes feels like relief. A fascinating study analyzing... Read more »
With spring comes the urge to open the windows, clear out our closets, and start fresh. What better time to declutter our homes and refresh our physical and emotional lives? Letting go... Read more »
The standard ADHD diagnosis is often too broad to be clinically useful for long term prediction or specific treatment. While many see ADHD as a simple disorder of focus, a decade of... Read more »
“Often when you think you’re at the end of something, you’re at the beginning of something else,” the late Fred M. Rogers once said. Mister Rogers’ emotional intelligence impacts all ages of... Read more »
PTSD and other stress-related conditions are of significant importance to large segments of the population, including and perhaps especially law enforcement officers, other professionals in the emergency first response services, and military... Read more »
When I was learning multiplication, my father showed me the “rule of 9.” Multiply any number by 9, he said, and then add together the digits of the product, and you will... Read more »