Psych Central Blog Network
- God, Religion, Bigotry, Slavery, Compassion Overload, Etc….
Thoughts on some provocative topics….
- 3 Practices to Calm An Anxious Mind
Anxiety affects all of us in varying degrees. You don’t have to be diagnosed with a clinical disorder to feel its insidious or intrusive effects. Fortunately, there are many ways to ease anxiety healt …
- Is Makeup Bad For Our Body Image? Q&A With…
Can you leave the house without wearing makeup? If you can, do you still feel good about yourself — or not so much? What role has makeup played in your life? Is it a tool to enhance your featur …
- POLL: Would Drug Legalization Take Away Desire To Use…
While on stage at Clive Davis‘s annual pre-Grammys party earlier this month, award-winning singer Tony Bennett noted that legalizing drugs would reduce the desire to use drugs. Bennett has had h …
- Why Fighting Addiction Can Feel Like A Game Of…
I remember driving past a church one evening with a colleague. A large group of people stood out front, shrouded in an impressive cloud of cigarette smoke. “AA meeting,” my colleague remarked. He didn …
- Right Brain Skills: Valuing the Attributes of the …
Being emotionally sensitive has advantages and challenges. The challenges include overcoming stereotypes of others that affect your performance and self-confidence, and living with the ache that comes …
- Is Your Partner Obsessed With Invisible Flaws?
Katy spends hours each day in front of the mirror, focused on her nose. She applies and reapplies makeup several times before leaving the house, and checks herself in her car’s mirror again befo …
- Positively Child Raising; ADHD or Not!
Today, I have to confess that I’ve been suffering from a bit of hero worship lately. Max and Millie (not their real names) can be seen in my town on the local sled hill, or skating, or they can …
- Gimme My Damn Psychological Data
One of the hats I wear is as a founding board member and treasurer of the Society for Participatory Medicine, a nonprofit organization devoted to forwarding the agenda and rights of e-patients. E-pati …
- Bullying and Suicide Can Create A Downward Spiral
I'd like think that with the many highly publicized teen suicides related to bullying in the last few years, society as a whole would really start to make some positive change. But that's no …
- The Shrink’s Guide To Self-Publishing (part 1)
I’m thrilled to introduce to you Stephanie Adams, LPC – my very first guest blogger on Private Practice Toolbox. Stephanie’s passion for counseling and develop multiple streams of in …
- Ya Gotta Have Friends: 4 Essential Ideas for Bouncing…
It’s hard to bounce back by yourself. If you look into the research about resiliency, inevitably you’ll find that social support and community are among the factors that help people learn to recover – …
- 4 Tips for Having a Happier Family
I was fortunate to have a healthy and positive upbringing. By this I mean I was shown love, given support, and had my needs taken care of. My family was by no means perfect. We had our ups and downs, …
- Having Trouble Getting Yourself To Write?
The most challenging aspect of being a writer? Writing. When I find myself struggling to be productive or creative, I remind myself of these nine tips. 1. Write every day. Staying inside a project kee …
- File Under: “Unf*ckin’ Believable”
Sometimes, and often at the most inopportune moments, a fine line appears – the line between “life” and a “Lifetime Movie.” I’ve been known to be overly dramatic now and then – heav …
- My Son Is Moving Back Home!
Back in October of last year my 15 year old son and I came into some major problems. He began to feel resentment towards me and the fighting that came about left me an absolute emotional wreck. One da …
- On Gratitude: The Virtual Gratitude Visit
Gratitude is an important part of increasing your well-being and happiness in your life. Psychological research has demonstrated — time and time again — the positive mood effects increasin …
- The Power of Mindfulness
Mindfulness has changed my life. I’m not exaggerating. It is as dramatic as that. I used to walk the world in a state of mental haze. I had trouble reading people’s non-verbal cues, was un …
- Are You a Stuffer? Graceful Guidance for Speaking Up
People-of-Faith often think it’s more charitable to simply forgive and forget, even if the other person hasn’t asked for it. There are times when this is true, but if you find you’re not able to let …
- Engagement vs. Avoidance
A couple of days ago, we wrote about exposure. The opposite of exposure is avoidance. We touch on the topic of avoidance fairly often in this blog, but it’s been years since we focused on the topic ex …
