A few years ago, as a travel journalist in Asia, I had an appointment with a spiritual leader in his office, and I was told that he was 94 years old. I arrived at his office door, rang the bell, and a ...

I work with teens in therapy groups. Often, we discuss the importance of discovering your interests and exploring what type of career you might envision for yourself. While some of the teens in the ...

Over time, relational burnout can take a serious toll on a person’s emotional, cognitive, and physical well-being. Researchers refer to this cumulative strain as allostatic load, the “wear and tear” ...

Maria sat across from me, her medical chart showing encouraging numbers — normal blood pressure, cholesterol and blood sugar. By medical standards, she was healthy. But her eyes told a different story ...

Not all perfectionism is the same. Discover the two hidden forces that drive it—and how understanding your type can help you find peace and freedom from anxiety.

We live in a world that is constantly changing, and ever more quickly. This means that to keep up, organizations and their leaders need to promote positive change initiatives that will really work.

In the history of psychology, some of the deepest insights have come from asking a deceptively simple question: What if you could step into someone else’s skin? For decades, psychologists have tried ...

The fairy tale “The Nightingale” by Hans Christian Andersen purports to be a record of the true events that occurred in the court of the emperor of China many years ago. According to the story’s ...

What if the “self” you protect and defend isn’t something you are, but something your mind continually creates?

Bend, Don’t Break: How Stretching Slows the Aging Clock In a previous article, I wrote about the mental health benefits of exercise. Research indicates that regular exercise can enhance your sense of ...

There are some things we'll just never "get" about our partner that are not going to change. Better to accept them than always see them as a sticking point.

We all know the saying, “it ain’t over until it’s over.” People who are depressed often think, “It’s over.” Yet over and over, my patients see that, with treatment, their lives are not over at all.