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NEWSFLASH! Free Technique for Healing Pain

What if you turned on the news to the following headline…FREE new technique–with no known side effects–is found to improve the mood of 88.8% of users!!! Would you be curious or do you already know what it is? Touted throughout history, described by Aristotle, Freud, and modern day psychotherapists of many theoretical backgrounds–the answer is […]

The Anatomy of an Argument: When Emotions Take the Wheel

Stan and Tiffany came to see me for marriage counseling after an argument over the children erupted into a shouting match. Although they were each embarrassed that they had screamed and used foul language, what confused them the most was what they had said to one another in the thick of the fight. Both of […]

When Cognitive Techniques Aren’t Enough: Five Practices To Fight Stress

“To use fear as the friend it is, we must retrain and reprogram ourselves. We must persistently and convincingly tell ourselves that the fear is here–with its gift of energy and heightened awareness–so we can do our best and learn the most in the new situation.” ~Peter Williams Barely a week goes by these days without […]

Healthy, Wealthy & Wise? 5 Myths About Rich Kids

“The love of family and the admiration of friends is much more important than wealth or privilege.” -Charles Kuralt Myth #1: Kids from wealthy families have fewer emotional and behavioral problems. It is well known from decades of research that children growing up in harsh, dangerous and impoverished neighborhoods are at considerably higher risk for […]

The Perils of Perfectionism

“The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.” -Anna Quindlen Would you like to be able to answer yes to the following questions? Would you like your partner to answer yes? Your children? Do you prefer to be organized and disciplined? Is […]

3 Steps for Befriending Emotional Triggers (Or How To Get Your Brain Back)

“If we learn to open our hearts, anyone, including the people who drive us crazy, can be our teacher.” -Pema Chodron In the last blog, we learned about what causes emotional triggers–or even worse–a full-blown amygdala highjacking. Sounds a bit like a terrorist attack–only it’s coming from inside your brain. Just knowing that everyone gets […]