On Self-pity
Gustave Courbet, The Desperate Man, 1845 It was a sunny Sunday afternoon; you were nine years old. Your parents wouldn’t let you have any...
What Your Anger May Be Hiding
Anger as Freud's Forgotten Defense If to Freud all defense mechanisms exist to protect the personality from an intolerable attack of...
How to Love Yourself First
Everyone's heard this self-help platitude: We need to love ourselves before we can love anyone else. This may sound wise, but it misses a...
The Top 10 Ways to De-stress (and Why You Need Them)
Taking time each day to decompress from the stress of modern living is timeless wisdom that is more important today than ever. We all...
Navigating Grief: How to Cope
What are the different stages of grief? Does everyone go through these stages? Research has shown that the stages of grief do not...
Responding Wisely to Food Addiction Relapses
When you’ve worked so hard on overcoming your eating addiction, it’s terrifying to think that you might slip up in the future. Some...
How to Build Your Resilience
The band Journey tells us to not stop believin’, Kelly Clarkson preaches what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger, and of course, Gloria...
Aging and depression
Old age is often portrayed as a time of rest, reflection and opportunities to do things that were put off while raising families and...
Social Anxiety
Social anxiety, also known as social phobia, can be described as a fear of social situations or of interacting with people other than...