Thought Management: Part I The Link Between Thoughts, Feelings, Body, and Behavior One of the best tools I’ve learned as a psychologist, mom, and human being is how to understand and change my thoughts. It’s estimated that humans have an average of 60,000 thoughts per day! Were...
What's the Key to Worry-Free?: The Worry Tree I got up at 5 on Monday morning to work on my book before the kids woke up. 30 minutes in I was feeling terrific about my writing "flow" when my computer suddenly went blank and a warning came...
Women & Friendship: The ABC's of Making & Keeping Friends "Make New Friends, But Keep the Old...
Today I would like to share a link to a wonderful website and blog written by a wonderful woman, Jennifer Moyer (www.jennifermoyer.com). Jennifer is a Mental Health Advocate & Speaker who, after overcoming her own postpartum experience, has dedicated herself to speaking out and helping others...
Like the changing seasons, loss comes to all, whether through death, illness, children leaving home, loss of career or money, divorce, miscarriage, infertility, trauma, or even the symbolic losses of identity, innocence, or security. Each primary loss carries secondary losses, such as the loss of...
Women’s Emotions: Part 2 The Emotional Earthquake Welcome back to the “Women’s Emotions” series. I hope you’ve already gained a little more insight into how women’s emotions work (or don’t work). If you haven’t had a chance to read the Introduction and Part 1 yet, you may choose to...
Parenting Practice: Getting Good at "The Let-Go's" Welcome to my new series, "Parenting Practice". I may have learned a lot about parenting in my psychology practice, but my true expertise has come through the practice of raising my own family. In order to survive as a mom...
The Do's & Don'ts of Helping Others Through Grief Yesterday was my sister, Shannon's, birthday. She would have been 36 years old. She died in 2007. I've faced many birthdays and anniversaries, having lost two of my sisters, my brother-in-law, my beloved father-in-law, two dear grandfathers, and...