Watch this fantastic ~ 20 min  Ted Talk by Kelly McGonigal about changing our relationship to stress and how the research is showing that...

Both the blessing and the curse is this: there are a million ways to get into meditation and many different kinds of meditation...

The problem is that what is best for us individually is not always consistent with what is best for the tribe at that moment. This gets...

How is it that just being present with another person can make them so uncomfortable? The other day my wife and I went out to a local pub...

When the two-by-four fairy visits, I am generally impatient and end up spending time focusing on the fact that I don’t want the reality I...

Time is the only commodity we have that matters, and it is impossible to get more of it once we have wasted it. Think about a day when...

We use boundaries to distinguish what is mine versus what is yours, so we can take care of what is ours.  When I know what is mine, I can...

What people often do not account for is all of the ways in which depression, if left untreated, can affect your thinking processes....

This means that if I learned, intentionally or not, Lets say I moved around a lot or had one or The thing about the survival map is that,...

We have long talked about how we get sick  for a reason (see the Strong and Healthy Self). Last week we looked at why we stress and how...

This is where the idea of the Strong and Healthy Self came from, biologically, nature created us as efficiency junkies, so we don’t...

Today we’re going to look at how giving advice might be one of those good intentions that may actually be doing more harm than good....

What do you do now? How does it make you feel when you FUSE or INVEST in this belief? For most people it makes us feel weaker to believe...

This  shows up as the “should have”, ” could have” conversation we have with ourself when we realize we ignored that little voice inside...

Sport isn’t just for the elite though. The benefits are enormous, and in fact, my personal experience has been that my mental health...

At its best, this When / Then thinking might force us to “get rid” of those bad thoughts through force of will [that voice in your head...

Turns out, this is actually pretty common. Why? In a recent post I described the Triangle of Conflict. When feelings or impulses begin to...

Stand up if you have you ever been in an argument with your partner? You For today’s post the question is: What can be done about it? The...

In today’s post let’s look at how and why this happens…and what to do about it. So what happens when strong feelings about the past or...

Today we are talking about those relationships that require us to be small, unwell or broken in order to feel accepted by them or to be...