This is the second part in a deep exploration of what is wrong with our world, the challenges that we have on our collective plates,…
Category: Negative Moods & Emotions
As a psychologist, I have to be a believer in change and growth. However, aren’t we all fans of change and growth to some extent?…
Most of us try to remain hopeful that life is getting better, but it’s difficult to do this in our dynamic, often chaotic world. We…
There’s a beautiful song by the Indigo Girls released in 1989 that you might have heard before called Closer to Fine. The artists, Amy Ray…
This blog is about being grateful – with a twist. Let me give a little backstory that is the inspiration for this blog. I was…
All of us feel down at times. Feeling sad is part of the yin-yang of our existence. From this perspective, what appears as polar opposites are actually…
We are, once again, doing some soul-searching about gun violence in America after the tragic killing of 19 elementary school children and two teachers by…
Most of us have been horrified, sickened, and enraged by the senseless killing of George Floyd in the custody of Minneapolis police officers. Protests over Floyd’s death have…
We are all in uncharted territory with COVID-19 (coronavirus). I’m a Gen-Xer, and I’ve never lived through something like this. We have had a few scares over…
It’s safe for me to assume, since you are reading this, that you are a human being. Since you are, I know that there are…