Out of My Mind

Hypnosis: Now, Repeat After Me . . .

It’s a bonafide therapeutic tool in the right hands and unadulterated snake oil in the wrong ones.

Finding the Right One

Those who struggle to find “the right one” often question if it’s something about them, when it might just be bad luck.

Messages from Your Dream Maker

The dream makers in our minds tell us things no one else will or can. They know who we are in a way even our closest friends may not.

What We Get to Keep

A struggling single mom’s advice: No matter how much stuff we make or buy, there are only a few things we truly keep.

Talking Too Much

We are drowning in a flood of blah, blah, blah.

Betraying Our First Mother

When it comes to Mother Earth, we humans prove heavy on the take and miniscule on the give.

Affirmations Anyone? It Depends

Trying to dilute negative self-talk with its positive counterpart may actually make us feel worse, not better.

Stress Everywhere All the Time

There’s the climate disaster, the rise of oligarchy, Orwellian propaganda, needless wars... We’re drowning in a toxic mental soup of disheartening news, and many are struggling to come up for air.
 

The Curious Nature of Profanity

Each of us harbors our own unspoken set of rules about when and with whom swearing is acceptable.

Afraid of People

“Social anxiety disorder” is a label, like many diagnostic ones, that tends to gloss over the many individual differences among those who feel an aversion to human contact.