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I watched the supper bowl half time show. Beyonce was just fantastic! She is such a celebrity!I have always been curious about our fascination with celebrities. Maybe we try to attach our identity to theirs to feel successful, beautiful or powerful. It is fun to dress up like a celebrity or to buy the products […]
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In my work as a couples therapist, I often have couples complain to me about their partner’s anger management issues. As a mother myself, I never knew how angry I could get until I had children! Chronic anger can erode and break relationships and has a huge long-term physical, emotional, interpersonal, and spiritual costs. Exploring, taming, […]
READ ARTICLEIn our culture only 8% of people actually accomplish their New Year’s resolution. If for some reason you let your resolve go, with focus, faith, patient and effort you can still join the few. Some apps can be incredibly helpful in this endeavor. One of them is MotivAider, which helps you to keep your intentions […]
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Ever since I began what has since become a multi-faceted career revolving around human psychology, behavior, and performance, I have been fascinated with the science (and even the oddball speculation) that underlies whether, and how, people are able to bring about what they say they want. I have been convinced that success isn’t merely a question […]
READ ARTICLENew Year’s Day finds many people making New Year’s resolutions. Yet, it is well known that most of those resolutions will go unfulfilled. Efforts to lose weight, stop smoking, meditate more and spend more quality time with the family fade all too soon. Radio announcers even joke that if you wait until just a few weeks into […]
READ ARTICLEEven after a career as a human performance specialist and now as a life coach and therapist, I’m still naïve enough to be tempted to implement a dozen or so good New Year’s resolutions. But this year I’m clinging to two principles: “First things first” and “biggest bang for the buck.” The adage from of […]
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In my latest blog post for Pamela’s Punch, I explore how to talk to people who are going through loss: How to Talk to Grieving People
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David Brooks in his recent New York Times article “The Heart Grows Smarter” summarizes the findings of the Grant Study. One of the findings is that men who didn’t have at least one warm positive influence in their early life tend not to fare as well as those who did. “But as this […]
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What Has Love got to do with it??? So what do we really know about the benefits of marriage, love and/or a committed relationship? Where are the arguments for a stable relationship? One argument that we might not think about too often is better health. Not surprisingly, there are positive health benefits to a […]
READ ARTICLEI recently celebrated a friend’s 50th birthday by attending the musical “Menopause.” The group of us laughed so hard that tears were streaming down our cheeks. At the end of the play the audience was invited up to the stage for women to unite around this season of life. SEASON of life it is! I […]
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