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Awhile back I was asked by “Dallas News” reporter Nancy Churnin to guest blog on “Dallas Moms,” (part of “The Dallas Morning News”). They wanted me to write about motherhood and mental illness, and of course I have no trouble coming up with material there. Click here to get the original post. I have excerpted…

What should mothers do about the guilt that comes with postpartum depression?

There are so many excellent mommy blogs out there, but Christine Kraft really captures the emotions of a mother’s heart with her writing, like in this blog called “The Soul of a Child.” Click here to get to her blog. Here’s an excerpt:   I recently experienced being interconnected with my son when he had…

If you are looking for audio interviews of top psychologists, psychiatrist, and mental health personalities, you should visit “Psychjourney Podcasts.” You can download informative podcasts to listen to on your way to work (if you actually have a job in this economy) or as you’re supposed to be watching your kid’s soccer game. Fellow blogger…

I woke up this morning–okay and every morning for the last 8 days–with a bad case of the “What If?”s. I’m feeling the familiar adrenaline run through my veins. It’s fear, of course. Of what could happen. Tomorrow. Next year. In ten years. The primitive, ape-like part of my brain that feeds on fear has…

I recently came upon this message on my Beliefnet homepage: I have bipolar as well, but I am usually more depressed than manic. I fight every day to look for something to cling to do I do not take my life. I grasp for anything to make it through another day. But I am still…

Last week I was interviewed as part of a “BlogTalkRadio” segment hosted by Hachette Book Group, my publisher. It’s basically a radio show that you can produce and broadcast yourself. To listen to it, you can visit this link. I have written out my answers to some of the questions for those of you, like myself, that…

A week or so ago, Elisha Goldstein interviewed me on his insightful blog, “Mindfulness and Psychotherapy.” Click here to get to it. I have excerpted below his question regarding stigma. Elisha: There’s a lot of stigma around mental illness and from your writings I know you’ve heard your share. This stigma can reinforce deep feelings…

Sometimes God hits you between the eyes with something you need to read. That would be this piece, one of the beautiful contributions to Elisha Goldstein’s new EBook, “A Mindful Dialogue: A Path to Working with Stress, Pain and Difficult Emotions.” Quite appropriately for me this week, the following reflection is on how to deal…

On January 12, 2010 a 7.0 earthquake hit Haiti and over 110,000 people have died and many more needing food, water, resources and medical and psychological attention. A Mindful Dialogue: A Path Toward Working with Stress, Pain, and Difficult Emotions was compiled by psychologist and blogger Elisha Goldstein to be a companion through life when dealing…
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