The Problems With Avoiding Your Problems
Just because you’ve gotten good at avoiding your problems, doesn’t mean that they’ve gone away. In fact, more often than not, they will fester and grow, coming out in all sorts of unexpected places in...
View ArticleThe Luckiest Man
75 years ago this past weekend, one of the greatest baseball players of all time, Lou Gehrig, delivered a speech that proved to be not just his departure from baseball, but from life. The humble...
View ArticleTips for a Better Brain and Better Mood
The relationship between food and mood has always been so central to my life, and I’ve struggled for years trying to get the best diet for myself so that I feel the best and most energetic I can. I’ve...
View ArticleIt’s O.K. To Be Unhappy
So much is made in our culture about being happy, or getting to personal happiness, that one wonders if the effort in and of itself is unhappiness-inducing alone. We don’t have much room for...
View ArticleDealing with People Pleasing
Chances are that you know a people pleaser, or maybe you’re in a relationship with one. In fact, it could be you’re a people pleaser yourself! The people pleaser, or “nice guy”, is usually the one...
View ArticleAnger Management, or Healthier Angry Expression?
Anger management, in the traditional sense, doesn’t always work. Sure, there are coping or calming strategies to help you manage your anger, which do work in the short term, but they don’t always deal...
View Article7 Strategies to Deal with Burnout
Burnout is not something to be taken lightly. It’s easy for stress to creep up and accumulate within you, and the effects can be far-reaching. You may be physically harming yourself, and you may not be...
View ArticleDealing With Grief
The Tale of The Mustard Seeds There is a famous tale from the Buddhist text called the Dhammapada about grief that I want to share with you. The wife of a wealthy Indian man in ancient times lost her...
View ArticleManic Depression
Manic depression is one of the more common mental ailments where the symptoms are fairly easy to spot, but the treatments may be difficult to deliver if the person experiencing them does not realize...
View ArticleWhat is Depression?
Depression affects millions of people around the world. It is a state where the overall mood is low which affects the behavior, thoughts and feelings of a person along with their sense of being. There...
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