Are You a Relationship Empath?
In my practice and workshops I’m struck by how many sensitive people come to
me wanting a long term soul mate. Personally, I can relate to this. Yet, despite online
dating services, expensive match-makers, friend fix-ups, and blind dates, they ...
Is Emotional Openness the Key to Healthy Relationships?
Is Emotional Openness the Key to Healthy Relationships?
Have you ever been at a social event, whether a hosted dinner, picnic, party, what-have-you, and you meet someone who is obviously intelligent, well educated, and successful? You fully expect an ...
Tips For Facing Fear Foods in Eating Disorder Recovery
Tips For Facing Fear Foods in Eating Disorder RecoveryBy Jennifer Rollin, MSW, LGSW
For individuals who are recovering from a restrictive eating disorder, one important component of their treatment is to face their “fear” or “trigger...
20 Great Palace Lies about Pregnancy, Motherhood, and Body Image
1. Pregnancy and new motherhood are a glowing time.
2. Having a birth plan determines the way labor and delivery happens.
3. Only un-medicated vaginal births are good.
4. Good mothers (easily) breastfeed.
5. You can (and should) get your baby to sl...
The Larger Problem is Not Mental Illness but The Polarized Mind
Abstract
Drawn in part from my recent books The Polarized Mind: Why It’s Killing us and What We Can Do About it (2013) and Rediscovery of Awe (2004), this article describes a major oversight in organized psychology and psychiatry, and th...
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