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Trying to Change Your Partner? Pitfalls and Possibilities
If you ask people what they think would improve their relationship, their immediate answer is often a clear formulation of what changes their partner could or should make. Most people really don’t want...
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Developing a Post-Trauma Identity-Who Am I Now?
We are the story we tell ourselves about ourselves. Traumatic events disrupt out story and assault our sense of self. They leave us asking: Who am I if I can’t be a cop, a surgeon, a provider? How can...
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Mindfulness: An Unexpected Antidote to Workplace Stress
Across settings and disciplines, there is increasing evidence of workplace stress. In her New York Times article reporting on the lack of civility in the workplace, Christine Porath opens with the...
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What Makes Breaking Up So Hard to Do?
While some love the excitement of dating, others complain that online dating is overwhelming and many dread family introductions, most agree, “ Breaking up is hard to do.” The Broken Heart Across time...
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What Makes an Apology Effective in Healing?
The context of apologies are relationships, be they between friends, lovers, families or nations. The goal of an apology is reconciliation and restoration of bonds of love, trust, respect and humanity....
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Warning Signs You Overlook in An Addictive Relationship
There is a striking comparison between the DSM-V Diagnosis of Substance Dependence, a synonym for addiction, and the patterns of use, impairment, increased tolerance, and withdrawal found in addictive...
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In The Aftermath of Suicide: The Question WHY?
Suicide is tragic and complicated loss that takes the lives of too many. Suicide is dangerously high in this country .The annual U.S. suicide rate increased 24% between 1999 and 2014, from 10.5 to 13.0...
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Clashing With Your Partner? Try Anger Management for Couples
If you are human and you are in a relationship it is inevitable that at times you will be angry with your partner. I often suggest to couples that if you never hear the neighbors fighting, it probably...
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Anniversary Events: Coping with Pain-Embracing Potential
We have learned that in the aftermath of traumatic events, the unconscious has an uncanny sense of timing and the body remembers. “I was anxious all day – I didn’t realize until night that it was the...
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Sometimes You Can’t “Just Do It”– Effective Change Strategies
Why can’t I just stay on a diet? Why didn’t I stop the online shopping? Why don’t I just clean the house? You may have wondered, even despaired, about your inability to change certain things that you...
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