If you ask any married person how their wedding experience was, you might hear a tale that boggles the mind. Simply put, there is something about a wedding that brings out the bizarre in us. In my clinical work, I have been told of relatives dropping dead on the dance floor, people getting drunk and…
I recently received an email from a person who attended one of my workshops—I’ll call him Steve. He wanted to talk to me about a stressful situation at work. When we got on the phone, Steve talked about the excitement he felt when he started his new position many months earlier. He told me that…
Source: Photo by Oleksandr Pidvalnyi/Pexels The dress is picked, the RSVPs are counted, and the rings are glimmering with hopes of a happily ever after—your wedding day has arrived. Although a wedding is supposed to be the happiest day of your life, for many brides feeling down and depressed are common experiences after the big…
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Source: Bestbiologygirl/Pixabay + Daniel Lincoln/Unsplash Just about every article on the biology of happiness talks about the neurotransmitter serotonin and why it’s so important to our mood. While the serotonin system is certainly a key player in our mood, there are five important and popular misconceptions about how it works that are worth understanding. Myth…
It is easy to list a dog’s virtues. Our best friends are by turns loyal, responsive, supportive, protective, loving, obedient, goofy, tireless, durable, faithful, empathetic, courageous, nimble, quick, and clever. Dogs are clever in specific ways that might disturb our self-satisfaction. The senses are a good place to start the list. Their brains devote a…
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There’s a term going around Instagram and TikTok that you won’t find in any psychology textbook but has nonetheless become pervasive. That term is “cycle-breaker.” A cycle-breaker is somebody who sees an unhealthy cycle of behavior in their family of origin (meaning the family they grew up in) and intentionally works to break that cycle….
Source: Healthy Minds Innovations By Simon Goldberg Mental health apps have become a big business. There are now over 10,000 mental health apps available, offering a dizzying array of approaches and promises to improve your mental health. Of the wide variety of apps out there, meditation apps are particularly popular, by some estimates accounting for…
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Making your relationship equal outside the bedroom might be a route to spicing things up within it. Source: Toa Heftiba/Unsplash In times with an increasing focus on issues related to equality, diversity, and inclusion, one area of life that has been under lower levels of scrutiny than others is the level of comparative fairness within…
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With the understanding that laughter is a vocal affirmation of mutual vulnerability, and reflecting on how the spontaneous highlighting of someone’s shortcomings is a critical part of informal humor, the task of now comprehending formal humor becomes relatively straightforward. The only difference between informal and formal humor is the greater degree of planning and effort…
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Making your relationship equal outside the bedroom might be a route to spicing things up within it. Source: Toa Heftiba/Unsplash In times with an increasing focus on issues related to equality, diversity, and inclusion, one area of life that has been under lower levels of scrutiny than others is the level of comparative fairness within…
