How to Recover From Work
Nowadays, many people are experiencing that working is no longer clocking in at 9:00 am and clocking out at 5:00 pm. Work is now physically or virtually arriving between 7:00 am and 10:00 am and leaving between 3:00 pm and 6:00 pm, all while juggling personal phone calls, work e-mails, doctor’s appointments, social media
How Can You Tell When You’re Being Listened To?
There's an epidemic of fake listening raging through our society, brought on by the pace of life, the deluge of information, and the need to...
The Secret World of Self-Injury- How parents can help their adolescents
“My daughter has been taking handfuls of over-the-counter painkillers and has been cutting herself,” my friend blurted out to me as she and I...
Anxiety and COVID-19 : an Intertwined Situation
Covid-19 is an infectious disease which is cause due to a number of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). It was first...
How to Talk to Kids and Teens About the Coronavirus
Even if children and teens don't appear to be following the coronavirus news carefully, it is likely that they are absorbing the information and...
Managing Emotions to Innovate
Negative reviews. A hoped-for invitation. Something happens, and an emotional reaction is triggered. Creative work is full of such triggering...
Adverse Effects of Social Media
If you follow my work, then you know that, although I'm completely addicted to my cell phone and to Facebook (there, I said it), I'm extremely...
Healing Emotional Pain: How to Recover When Life Crushes You
Whether you saw it it coming or didn’t, the feeling is the same: You’re devastated. You gasp at your vulnerability and wonder, “Why did this...
The Difference Between Sadness and Depression
We often hear the term “depression” thrown around lightly in conversation. We may come home from a stressful day at work and tell our family at...
DEPRESSION
Depression is a mood disorder that involves a persistent feeling of sadness and loss of interest. It is different from the mood fluctuations that...
Self-Care Is Not An Indulgence. It’s A Discipline.
The way self-care is portrayed today is completely and utterly backward. First, self-care as a concept is almost exclusively aimed at women...
Supporting Loved Ones With Depression
If you love someone who struggles with a mood disorder, chances are you're often confused or challenged as to how to best help. One of the...
ANXIETY
Anxiety is your body's natural response to stress. It's a feeling of fear or apprehension about what's to come. In most cases it causes people to...
How Healing Emotional Wounds is Like Healing Physical Wounds
Physical wounds are easy to spot as they usually leave physical evidence of an injury such as a broken bone or blood. They also leave emotional...
Gottman Method Couples Therapy
The Gottman method was devised by Dr. John Gottman. It is a structured form of couple’s therapy. It is an approach which is based on 40 years of...
EMDR Therapy
EMDR therapy was first developed in 1987 by psychologist Francine Shapiro upon noticing that certain eye movements reduced the intensity of...
Social Anxiety
At this time of the year we’re right in the midst of numerous social gatherings – end-of-year drinks with friends, work Christmas parties, holiday...
Could you be suffering from High functioning Anxiety?
I still remember studying about anxiety in grad school. I thought it was a debilitating condition, where the person impacted had reduced ability to...