I took a deep dive into fear after someone I love dearly, a close family member, began experiencing a physical symptom. We’ve been unable ...

We often hear that forgiveness is an act of kindness for ourselves, that if forgiveness benefits the one ...

Many teens stay in constant contact, in a continual conversation with their parents throughout the day.

The other day, as I was walking through the park, I decided to practice mindfulness, to deliberately pay attention to ...

Wow, 2020! Our year of anxiety. Many of us are walking around with a sense of trepidation, if not abject fear. It sits ...

When I am confronted with difficult feelings, or any feelings really, my tendency is to try to figure ...

The most common question I get in my talks to parents around the country is this: What should I do ...

The workshop started with a simple question: "What do you want?" That question was followed with "What is your ...

Regret is a big topic in therapy. People talk with anger and sadness about the choices they've made. They ...

Most of the issues I see in my psychotherapy practice are gender-neutral; they affect men and women, for ...

There’s something profoundly disturbing going on in our culture right now. Well, truth be told, there are a ...

When in conversation with other human beings, most of us are inclined to offer an uh-huh, hmmm or ...

Ava wanted to tell her husband about a troubling and upsetting argument she’d had with her sister. She ...

A victim, according to the dictionary, is a person who has been tricked, duped, harmed, injured, or killed ...

Jill and her husband had attended a friend’s party, and Jill came home upset. Her husband’s friendliness—and what ...

When life gets hard and things go wrong, the most counterintuitive and seemingly impossible choice is to relax and find ...

I recently wrote an article about a client who enjoys her marriage and who also struggles with her ...

From the time we're young, we're taught to find the silver lining in every cloud, to search for ...

There comes a time in every relationship when you realize that something you think you need and “should” ...

With all the craziness going on in the news, all the reasons we should avoid each other, not ...

While our use of technology has profoundly changed our relationships with other people, it has changed our relationship ...

When we grow up in emotionally chaotic households, we face challenges in establishing healthy adult relationships. We learn ...

Viv, a composite of several clients, has been married for 25 years. For the past 10 years, she and her husband ...

What skills are necessary for professional greatness? What makes someone able to perform successfully under high stress and ...

Have you ever noticed how much time you spend thinking about negative or painful situations, ruminating and replaying ...

“I want it all, I want it all, I want it all, and I want it now.” These were ...

We spend our early years learning how to walk, talk, read, play sports, have conversations and so on. We ...