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I was enjoying a lovely Thursday morning-turned-afternoon of productivity when misfortune struck. The electronic lock that protects my office door from the outside world decided to lose its battery while I was out of the office. Somehow, in the three minutes of my...

I’m an advocate of dropping the Why question. “Why?” you might be wondering (see what I did there). I find the question is generally not helpful. I have seldom seen it asked and answered to satisfaction, in any given circumstance. When a growing child asks her mother,...

I see clients for issues ranging from family conflict to severe depression to social anxiety. Each of these presenting problems is unique, and each issue will manifest differently in any given person. One common thread interwoven throughout the stories of every single...

I recently became a home gardener. After spending weeks researching the most efficient way to build a raised bed, as well as carefully selecting the source of my soil, seeds, plants, and other needed materials, I set out on this entirely unknown world of growing and...

Do you know what the term “anhedonia” means? When I pose this question to my clients, they usually mention a rare blood disease. Because I enjoy writing and I also enjoy educating, let me tell you about the non-rare-blood-disease plaguing an overly depressed nation....

If you’re here in South Florida, as soon as you perceived that half degree plummet from 85 to 84.5, you knew the holidays were upon us. Now, in the first week of December, we have plunged fully into the heart of the holiday season. For those dealing with the recent...

We’ve made it through the marathon of holidays we weren’t sure would ever end, and here we are in January of 2018. Congrats to us! If these words comfort you, take the congrats. However, for some of us, congratulations do not feel in order. What you were expecting to...