This upcoming week is Mental Health Awareness Week. In its honor and in an effort to keep conversations flowing about mental health, public and private, I want to…
Feelings are not facts. Believing, acting on, and making decisions based solely on your feelings will get you in trouble almost every time. Now, before I totally alienate the whole…
Smartphones have become essential to almost every part of a person’s life these days: school, work, family, friends, fun. Originally, phones were functional – a means to make calls…
Everyone has pesky, negative, worrisome thoughts. That’s normal. If you’re lucky, it’s less often than all the time. Why You Have A Negative Brain I’ve seen estimates that…
The research is clear: People who set goals are more successful. While goal setting is a beneficial practice in most cases, it’s not a miracle cure for all your problems like…
In the past few decades, we’ve made substantial progress in understanding the science of happiness. Positive psychology has a pretty good understanding of how happy happens in your…
While most people understand that if you have a heart condition, it’s best not to exist on a diet of greasy, cheesy, fried, fast foods. However, many people…
Sugar is all over the news these days, and the news isn’t good – especially about what it’s doing to your brain. Poor memory formation, learning disorders, depression, and…
When you hear about neuroplasticity, it’s usually in conjunction with remarkable, positive brain and life change. Neuroplasticity is an amazingly powerful ability of the brain to alter its…
You probably know from your own experience that putting feelings into words — talking with a counselor or friend or writing them down — helps you feel better. …
Your life shapes your brain. Because of neuroplasticity, the ability of your brain to change both form and function in response to your experiences, behaviors, and thinking, your…
None of us get out of this life unscathed. If we’re lucky, we only experience a few deep wounds and even fewer “my life changed in a second”…
