I have decided to dedicate a post on Thursday to therapy, and offer you the many tips I have learned on the couch. They will be a good reminder for me, as well, of something small I can concentrate on. Many of them are published in my book, “The Pocket Therapist: An Emotional Survival Kit.“

I once made the mistake of soliciting marriage advice from a woman who had been divorced four times. That was, until Eric shared this important nugget with me: “When you want to play better golf, you should watch a Tiger Woods tape, not the man hacking balls into the parking lot at the driving range. And when you want to write better prose, don’t ask the ladies at a Tupperware party for those tips. Seek the experts.”

Now I know better than to ask a friend who has never popped a Klonopin to tell me how to manage anxiety, or to ask the woman who has never worked outside the home for secrets on juggling home and career. I think I might even refrain from quizzing the married woman registered on eHarmony for pointers on avoiding an extramarital affair.
Be picky from whom you solicit counsel.

With exception to me, of course.