Here’s some background you might need for choosing my inner child: The Freaky Therese: I haven’t been able to dig up an official background check on this babe, but she does resemble those dolls that come alive in the middle of the night to reenact a scene or two from “Fatal Attraction.” Ariel (aka “The…

I think that what Americans like me who live in therapy assign to healing one’s inner child is really about letting go of our attachment to pain, a major theme in Eastern thought, especially in Buddhism. Here’s an excerpt from Victor M. Parachin’s new book, “Eastern Wisdom for Western Minds,” about how we might suffer…

A few months back, I started a series of interviews called “How Do You Move Beyond Blue?” Well, apparently my readers were moving beyond blue better than I was because I sort of hit a rough spot and forgot about the series. But now that it’s fall and we all are getting out our HappyLites…

Thanks to James at Finding Optimism, I found PsychCentral’s 2007 Best of the Web Blog for Bipolar Disorder. John M. Grohol, Psy.D. has been indexing and reviewing online reources since 1991. In 1995 PsychCentral.com began awarding Web awards to exceptional online resources. Here are his top ten picks. I agree–they’re great blogs. But the fact…

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