I was recently watching a docudrama called “Control” that chronicled the rise of the punk/new wave group Joy Division and troubled front man Ian Curtis.…
Category: Happiness & Well-Being
I had to go take care of a traffic ticket today at a precinct office – not a favorite task, but I try to take…
Our anger can be kept alive indefinitely. An incident in which we felt wronged from 20 years ago can send us spiraling into a heated…
Have you ever had the experience of not being able to maintain concentration while reading and/or not remembering what you just read? Of course, this…
I love coffee…and the caffeine that comes with it. But there can be “too much of a good thing.” Coffee helped me make it through…
My eldest son’s graduation was this past Friday…from preschool. Not that there was a ton of pomp and circumstance, but there was a ceremony (in…
I have a sweet tooth, which is often hard to fight. It’s natural that we crave sweets – we are hardwired for that. At one…
So, I was doing a body scan meditation the other day by following a CD by Jon Kabat-Zinn, who is a renowned psychologist who has…
Now we’ve arrived at potentially the most powerful way to break out of a cycle of negative thoughts and feelings. It is through mindfulness, which…
So, changing our behavior is one way of improving our sense of well-being. I’m referring to this as a form of self-liberation because we do…