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

My last blog entry talked about David Burns’ work on “cognitive distortions.” I noted that the distortion called the “mental filter”...

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.

...intellectual humility, otherwise described--in a recent article in an academic journal--as owning our limitations.

...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...