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Stop Trying to Get Rid of Stress
As I’ve been talking with my clients, friends, colleagues, and family members, it is becoming more and more apparent that increased stress is something we are all experiencing in one form or another in the season of the COVID-19 outbreak and resulting social...
What Life and Locksmiths Have in Common
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...
Finding Meaning in Suffering
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,...
Dropping Comparison and Choosing Affirmation
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...
The Seed Must Die for the Plant to Grow
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...
What to Do When You Don’t Want to Do Anything: Telling Depression, “No, Thanks”
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....
To the Grieving: How to Get Through the Holidays
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...
When Grief is Winning the Battle, Use These 5 Resources to Fight Back
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...