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Mirror work is something I first tried about forty years’ ago. I went to a workshop where author/teacher Louise Hay encouraged people to talk to [...]

As the world gets more and more unpredictable every day, how do you cope with loss? Loss of stability Loss of economic security Loss of [...]

As a psychotherapist who sees a lot of college students, about a month ago I was asked by a local periodical to write a column [...]

Hi, I’m Michael and I used to be a road rager: one of those people who expressed a lot of anger through my driving. It [...]

I see a lot of clients who have problems with their jobs. They tell me they feel burned out at work. I define this kind [...]

When I was an undergrad at the University of Cincinnati, I wanted to be a college president. I had an internship with the Dean of [...]

In the world of psychology, PTSD – post-traumatic stress disorder - is how doctors describe the experience of recovering from trauma. This term was created [...]

This is not the column I expected to write this week, but, in recent weeks, so many of my clients have told me: ·      “Trump [...]

  If someone in your family tree was trouble, A hundred were not:   The bad do not win - not finally, No matter how [...]

When you were a little kid, did you look at all the hard-working grownups all around you and think, “Wow, they’re so good. I hope [...]

You might think, with so much death, doom and disaster in the world, that optimism would be foolish or naïve. Nope. I read exhaustively to [...]

Inflation. Donald Trump. COVID. The Ukraine. Elon Musk. Financial instability. The Supreme Court. Immigration. Abortion rights. Global warming. Antisemitism/racism/agism/homophobia/misogyny.  I’m 71 years’ old and I [...]