If you’re unhappy, it makes sense to make changes to your life that will lead to increased happiness. Yet change can be frightening, as evidenced that so few actually do make those changes in their lives. Understanding your fear of change is the first step to enabling yourself to change your life for the better. […]
How Your Experiences Affect Your Perception Of Reality
February 14, 2015 By Leave a Comment
A client walks into her therapists’ office in obvious distress. She is nearly incapacitated with grief, and is barely able to find the chair she always uses to sit and talk to her therapist. She is so upset, she is nearly suicidal; believing that the world is so filled with evil there is no sense […]
5 Tips For Success In Your New Year’s Resolution
February 1, 2015 By Leave a Comment
Often, coping with stress is about not setting yourself up for failure. For example, setting goals for yourself that you know you’re unlikely to reach can make every day more stressful. As we head into a New Year, this becomes more problematic, especially if your New Year’s Resolution centers on something you’re fairly certain you […]
Fall Is For Reflection – Not Depression
October 13, 2014 By Leave a Comment
Fall is a time of reflection for many; a time for looking inward and taking stock. For some however, it’s can also be a gloomy time of year, leading to depression. For some mothers in particular, once the hectic pace of the back-to-school season comes to an end, and life begins to settle down a […]
New Year, New Life – Following Through On Your Resolutions
January 14, 2014 By Leave a Comment
It’s that time of year again, when many of us consider making major changes to our lives, with resolutions to “Be happier,” “Make a difference in the world,” “Earn more money,” Be a better parent/life partner,” “Get more exercise,” “Lose weight,” and many more. Unfortunately, while many of us resolve to “do something” to improve […]
Summer Stress Relief And Back-to-School
August 10, 2013 By Leave a Comment
As another summer comes to a close, and as many of you make preparations for returning your children to school, it seems appropriate to consider the stress caused by enjoying the company of the little ones during summer – and how best to deal with it, now that a new season is just around the […]
Our Happy Journey Together
February 28, 2013 By Leave a Comment
For the past couple of months we have been taking a journey together; a journey in pursuit of happiness. With this post that journey must come to a close though, as individuals, the pursuit of happiness continues – for all of us. My hope is that, by reading this series on happiness, you have discovered […]
Happiness Quotations
February 21, 2013 By Leave a Comment
This month I would like to offer you a couple-of-dozen quotations about happiness from an array of authors, revered public figures, deep thinkers, and therapists. Some are deep, while others may seem a bit frivolous at first reading, yet I believe all have value, while many offer insight. These happiness quotations have been borrowed from […]
The Eightfold Path To Happiness – Ethical Conduct
February 5, 2013 By Leave a Comment
And so we continue along The Eightfold Path to Happiness, which we began in my previous post, The Eightfold Path to Happiness – Wisdom. In that post we discovered that the path to Wisdom was critical to our pursuit of happiness, just as right-thinking and right-acting are critical to the pursuit of wisdom. Today we […]
To Pursue Happiness, You Must Expect To Be Happy
January 21, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Expectation is a big word, and carries with it some risk. It is anticipation of the future, which can conflict with the idea that living in the moment is a key to happiness. Plus, when you expect something, it is easy to be disappointed; yet expectation need not conflict with living in the moment, or […]
