A recent client, Yolanda, came to me because she wanted to improve her relationships with co-workers. A small business owner, Yolanda had...

It’s truly a bummer that we won’t be with family this year due to coronavirus. The change in our usual routine does however present an...

Have you ever noticed that your mind is over-active when you’re having a conversation with another person? You’re so busy forming...

You may not realize that your thoughts are accompanied by images, and that changing those images can change your experience.

My friend’s grumblings are a classic example of the “cognitive distortion” called the “mental filter” by David Burns in Feeling Good.

I can’t tell you how many of my clients suffer, they believe, from an inability to say the right thing in social/interpersonal situations.

For me, the solution to Julie’s melancholy around her brother was easy to see: let go of wishing Todd were different, and get back to...

Can we pick up good vibes from others that actually energize, and even heal us?

I’ve never talked to a parent who found this role to be easier than expected. Without exception, people I know say parenting is...

A client I’ll call Joanne had an unpleasant spat with her sister-in-law, Irene, on Christmas Eve.

Researcher Matthew Walker explains that the only time our brains produce no anxiety-triggering noradrenaline is when we are in REM sleep...

A recent study discussed in Greater Good Magazine (link below) affirms what the field of Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) has taught...

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

Those who study such things tell us that people remember very little about the specifics of what we say to them, and mostly remember...

This fitting-in vs. not fitting-in thing is a big part of our existential human experience. It became an old story, though--one I wanted...