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Exercise for Mental Health: Reasons to Start and Reasons to Stop
Despite the fact that more than 86% of Americans believe exercising for fitness improves a person’s odds of a long and healthy life by “a lot,” only 28% report they actually get as much physical...
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The Benefits of a Self-Enhanced View of You: New Findings
Do you think you have an inflated sense of self? Do you have positive illusions about the way you compare with others, make decisions, control your circumstances? While this enhanced self-perception...
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A Simple Step to Improve Healthy Eating: Recognize the Roadblocks
It is difficult to have a healthy relationship with food in this culture. We are invited to consume food of every kind by every media source on a 24-hour basis. The sale of cookbooks and gourmet items...
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Surviving and Succeeding in Face of Uncertainty: Six Strategies
Events like the Boston Marathon Bombing, Hurricane Sandy’s Devastation, The Newtown CT School Shooting and the many traumatic events they echo, assault us with the uncertainties of life. Leaving death...
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Overreacting in Your Relationship: Reasons and Remedies
Anyone is a relationship knows that partners have the uncanny ability to bring out the best and worst in each other. Accordingly, whether newly married or celebrating many years together, partners can...
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Non-Medication Strategies for Reducing Chronic Pain: Use and Effectiveness
About 100 million Americans suffer from chronic pain. Lasting longer than six months, such pain can be mild or excruciating, episodic or continuous, inconvenient or totally incapacitating. For too...
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Ebola: Coping with Fear and Uncertainty
Something very different happens to us when we face an epidemic as opposed to a natural disaster. When a natural disaster hits, there is anxiety, and traumatic loss but such events have a clear...
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Mindfulness: An Unexpected Antidote to Workplace Stress
Across settings and disciplines, there is increasing evidence of workplace stress. In her New York Times article reporting on the lack of civility in the workplace, Christine Porath opens with the...
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Reporting Rape and Sexual Abuse: The Difficulty Finding a Voice to Heal
According to a telephone survey of a nationally representative sample of 16,507 adults, nearly one in five women has been a victim of rape or attempted rape and one in 71 men reports having been raped...
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Clashing With Your Partner? Try Anger Management for Couples
If you are human and you are in a relationship it is inevitable that at times you will be angry with your partner. I often suggest to couples that if you never hear the neighbors fighting, it probably...
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