4 Books That Will Transform Your Marriage
Sometimes the best thing you can do for your marriage is to gather as much information as necessary to make it work. I utilize the...
top of page
Search
Call it a Lifestyle Change
“I’m not on a diet. It’s a lifestyle change.” “Um, yeah right. What’s the difference?” I’m so glad you asked, because that is what this...
Narrative Therapy: Harnessing Power In Our Stories
“Let me tell you a story”… think for a moment, how does this statement make you feel? For many it conjures up curiosity, anticipation,...
Parenting Children with Drug Addiction
Watching your child struggle with drug addiction can make any parent feel scared and helpless. Our sense of responsibility and love for...
Seasonal Affective Disorder: Diagnosis and Treatment
Seasonal affective disorder (SAD) is a type of Major Depressive Disorder that occurs only during specific seasons in the year (typically...
Ways to Improve Marriage
Building a strong and healthy marriage is an investment that takes a lot of time and energy. Happily married older couples don’t end up...
Stages of Life from 13 Years to End of Life
In a previous article, I talked about the first four stages in a person’s life. After the first 13 years, the stages stretch out as...
Stages of Life from Birth to 13 Years
There are many challenges in the journey of life. Developmental psychologists believe that the challenges we face follow predictable...
Family Structure
Parenting has been called many things: crazy, exhausting, terrifying, wonderful, confusing, but I rarely if ever hear it called easy. So...
Three Parenting Styles
Developmental psychologists look at the ways that parents manage children’s environments in order to teach them about the world and help...
Thought Distortions
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is a psychosocial counseling treatment for many emotional disorders, especially mood disorders involving...
Anxiety by Jason Isbell
This song helps gets at the heart of what it is like to struggle with anxiety. If you suffer, listen to this song, and maybe you will...
The Cognitive Triangle
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is a counseling treatment for many different emotional disorders such as Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Major...
Social Anxiety
Social anxiety is a silent suffering. Many people with social anxiety are interesting, hard-working people who become unknown and...
How to Maintain a Diet
I would like to provide a few psychological insights into dieting. Here are some thoughts on how to be successful with a chosen diet:...
Attachment in Relationships
In the 1950s John Bowlby changed our view of psychology when he demonstrated that a chimpanzee prefers maternal comfort more than food. ...
Crisis Hotline: 1-800-273-8255 by Logic
This is an important video that was shown to me. It is a story about a young man suffering and encourages folks to call this crisis...
Why Couples Divorce: Six Predictors
When I was young, I was petrified of divorce. I feared my spouse leaving me and being separated from my children. Most of all, I feared...
How to Achieve Goals
Psychology teaches us that we are goal-oriented as human beings. Unlike other creatures that mainly live to exist, humans have developed...
Gratitude: a Happier, Healthier Life
My graduate school mentor spent years pressing me and my classmates to “express appreciation” more often. He taught us that this greatly...
bottom of page