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We will all encounter dissapointment in this life, but we aren't always equipped to handle it. Here are some practical tips for handling dissapointment. My personal favorites: Throw Away the Evidence, Allow Cracks, Write About It and Hold Onto Hope...

I thought this was an appropriate post because many people ask me how far they should go in hiding their depression from their kids.

A book that argues why laid-back parents raise healthier and happier kids.

“Our country is overmedicated.” I get that a lot, usually right after I tell someone that I write a mental-health blog. Not as a hobby. As my job. Part of me agrees, the part that doesn’t want to get into a long and frustrating conversation, where I explain that it’s really not that simple ……

Happy pills don't work, the story quickly became, even though, boiled down to that headline, it was neither startling nor particularly true.

If anything keeps us alive, it is, indeed, hope. And faith can provide that hope.

Fellow blogger Elisha Goldstein always has great insight over at his blog on PsychCentral, called “Mindfulness and Psychotherapy.”  I especially liked his 7 ways to boost self-esteem using mindfulness. Here they are: Write it down – In working with erroneous negative self-judgments, it is a great idea to actually write them down. Writing them down…

One of the chapters in “The Pocket Therapist” is “Build a Guesthouse for Your Feelings.” Ironically, a talented artist I know, Anya Getter, titled her piece, “A Guesthouse,” and sent a photo of it to me. Here is the entry from the book, and her lovely artwork. “This being human is a guest-house,” wrote the…

I realize the more professional thing to do would be to keep this to myself, but, since I’ve always vowed to be as truthful as possible in my blog, here it is … I’ve been in the process of mourning an end to my book writing career. In the publishing business, you are only as…

I love this meditation that I read the other morning by Jean Vanier, the founder of l’Arche, an international network of communities for the mentally disabled. I believe that the forces of life and the desires for communion are greater than the forces of death and hatred. At some moment in each of our lives…
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