All Episodes

Unless one’s marriage or partnering is what psychologists call “high quality,” you may be better off single.

For most of us, the world demands far too much of our attention.

Sometimes, too much thinking and self-analysis get in the way of learning from our emotions.

Have you accepted the idea that young is attractive and old is not? Are you certain this is true?

Too often, people trade away their dreams, passions, autonomy and principles for promises of money, security and success, small comforts that rarely compensate for losing or repressing key elements of one's character and identity.
 

In your darkest moments, you may not feel hope, but somewhere in your future there may be a good accident waiting to happen.

In Freudian psychology it’s called “Thanatos,” or what is colloquially referred to as “the death wish.”

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.