A lot of people feel as if they are victims of their circumstances. That the bad day they had at work, the argument they had with a spouse, or the conflict they had at the store was something that happened to them.In fact, many times, it is somet ...
We’ve been told for too long to color in the lines, follow the rules, and do what we’re told. The reward for that is a bland obedience to the boring reality, and no chance to break free and discover who you are.But how can you reawaken your creat ...
Every year in America, thousands of foster parents take in tens of thousands of children in the foster system because of abuse or neglect. These children have a range of intense needs. For decades cognitive scientists and parents have been studying h ...
Are you chronically late? Constantly being apologetic? Compulsively shopping? Or maybe you are in a toxic relationship with … sugar? We all have some habits we wish to change or eliminate entirely.Unfortunately, the answer is not always about ...
If you’re like most people, you spend a lot of time and a lot of energy criticizing yourself. You have an endless tape loop in your head that replays the mistakes you made: the time you said exactly the wrong thing to your best friend, the mistake yo ...
It is easy to get down on yourself. Commercials and advertisements show seemingly perfect individuals in pristine houses, or playing outside on sunny days. They paint a picture of a world that is anodyne and spotless, completely unrealistic and unatt ...
Something doesn't feel right in your relationship but you just can't put your finger on it. You ask yourself, “We were going okay, weren’t we?” Hard to say. There is no grade card or scoreboard for your relationship.Instead you have to depen ...
In the middle of our lives, generally the late 40s for most of us, we have a chance to look forward and backward at equal portions of our lives.And many times when we take that look, we experience intense dissatisfaction.In response some of u ...
You’ve fallen into a disastrous and mind-numbing habit. The moment you wake up, you roll over and “just check in” with the day’s news. Perhaps you are just consulting Twitter, or you’ve got your device’s news service feeding you headlines from the 7 ...
Often when I am talking with a parent, or a couple with children, I will get questions about the development of their children.Sometimes, they are seeking confirmation that their child is indeed the brightest and fastest-developing child in the h ...
