Posted: July 31, 2015
On June 23 of this year, two things happened to me that I found equally surprising: I turned 40, and I went skydiving. To be honest, I never really thought I'd reach 40. Call it a melancholy sense of fate or chalk it up to...
Posted: July 24, 2015
"When was your anger a problem for you last week?" I asked the young man sitting before me. He was 20ish and typically quite pleasant, but he had come to therapy at the insistence of his girlfriend because he was prone to aggressive outbursts and...
Posted: July 17, 2015
Corey* just wouldn’t come home on time. His parents set curfew for the 15 year old at 10:00 pm on the weekdays, and he rarely abided by it. Now, I thought that 10:00 pm on a weekday was actually too lenient, but what was important...
Posted: July 10, 2015
I must have it my way. I wish I had it my way. Just making that change in our self-talk can make all the difference between healthy and unhealthy decisions. That first phrase, of course, is a demand, and demandingness is reflective of words such...
Posted: June 19, 2015
"You're not following through, Mike," my poor friend calmly recited for the umpteenth time. "Golf is a game of follow through. You're stopping the club when you hit the ball." "You've got no follow through on that jumper, Mike," my angry basketball coach shouted. "Follow...
Posted: June 12, 2015
Once upon a time, a squirrel was wandering about through some woods when she heard cries for help. She followed the sounds to a deep hole among the trees. At the bottom of the hole, a snake looked up and said, "Oh, thank goodness you're...