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One is a Cross that my mother gave me many years ago. I told her, “I’ll write my Ph.D. dissertation with this.” (I did, when I was 29). Another is a Waterman Expert, still in it...
Much has been said about authenticity: why we should be real, brah—regarding who we are and what we want. But pull back the curtain, and you find that we are each a jumble of disjointed foibles: inacc...
You have heard of “sovereign” nations. Here’s a news flash, if you haven’t yet realized it: people can be sovereign as well.
What’s It All About?
To be “sovereign" means to be completely independent...
Be a good person even when you don’t feel like it. Especially when you don’t feel like it.
You have a choice in how you react to your life situations - choose to do the right thing.
What Is Good?
Unl...
Here’s something that took me a long time to realize. There is a technique, a practice that can bring and sustain happiness.
It’s easy to be happy when everything is going well, not so easy when life ...
A Practical Guide to Unlock Fulfillment and Personal Growth
In the decades I have used my professional training in clinical psychology and clinical hypnosis to help individuals achieve profound happine...
Wow. Sure are a lot of people on social media today. Artists and scam artists, winners and wanna-bes, influencers and insignificants. Everybody has the secret, proven way to become rich and famous, an...
Our brains are wondrous things, mysterious and unprecedented in the animal kingdom. My belief is that we are just beginning to get a glimpse of the capability of this miraculous organ.
Research numbers...
What does it mean to be “high-functioning”? The term applies to people who set and achieve their goals at a very high level. These people do not necessarily have less challenges than the “average” per...
It’s a serious question. Most of us spend an inordinate amount of time passively absorbing the thoughts of other people, bingeing TV or doom-scrolling through our social media accounts. Eventually, th...
I remember a time that I was perfectly content in my little house in my little home town. That was ages ago. I’ve been psychologically “running” for a long time now.
It happened when I stopped to get g...
Welcome to my 48th article this year and the last of 2023. The end of the calendar year is as good a time as any to take stock of the last 12 months and make new plans. Time to start again.
There are t...
So here it is. You have cleared your mind and stilled the incessant, distracting chatter (as we discussed in last week’s blog post). Now you are staring at a blank page, or staff or canvas. Maybe you ...
“Sad songs, they say so much,” sang Elton John in 1984. The dark side of art was popular long before Bernie Taupin wrote those lyrics and remains so now.
Sophie’s Choice; The Road; Tears in Heaven; The...
This article is dedicated to all the creators out there working their butts off. All y’all (that’s Southern plural) creating content, watching trends, crunching numbers, tweaking marketing and all tha...
