I sat with a client the other day who was feeling anxious. He’d had a bad day at work and traffic was unusually heavy on his way to see...

A couple of recent clients have been feeling depressed despite the facts that Covid is now waning and that neither has lost work. Having...

As you might well imagine, people are struggling to deal emotionally as well as practically with yet another round of Covid. Omicron has...

You’re probably not surprised to hear that I’ve been seeing a number of clients who find the holidays stressful. For some, it’s the...

I've spoken before in this blog about the fear that news reports can provoke in us (July 7, 2017), and about the idea of cutting down on...

A client I’ll call Carmen had broken up with her boyfriend months ago but in her mind’s eye, she kept seeing the angry look he had on his...

Judson Brewer’s recently released book, Unwinding Anxiety, demonstrates that anxiety is not a necessary reaction to life but instead a...

My client “Lauren” was depressed ever since she’d had a mishap at work...“I feel like a total loser,” Lauren told me.

I read this morning that rates of anxiety and depression are up four-fold since the start of the coronavirus pandemic.

We’re all enduring a terrible time in world history. Coronavirus has taken many lives, and we remain in the thick of the outbreak and...

...“learned optimism,” the idea that we’re not hopelessly locked into a pessimistic mindset, even if we may have been practicing it...

And while we want to listen to our inner guidance system about not over-scheduling ourselves, I’m also here to tell you that my edgy...

Things are not always, never, totally, or constantly any one way.

Anxiety can be so overwhelming that it often seems one’s entire life is being consumed by it. One thinks, Anxiety is taking over my life.

...when faced with a personal fear or weakness, to think, My imperfections humanize me and connect me to others.

There is something we can do to give ourselves a break from the mainstream media: read Greater Good Magazine.

Anxiety is a pattern that has created a kind of pathway in the brain, and a person can learn to abandon this pathway and walk down...

Speaking of things in flux, our moods and feelings (like our bodies) are always shifting.