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By Priya Jain “Be yourself—not your idea of what you think somebody else’s idea of yourself should be.” ~Henry David Thoreau How many times have people told you to just be yourself? A million times perhaps. How many times have you felt able to do this? Until a few months ago, I thought this was frighteningly hollow […]

By Margarita Tartakovsky, M.S. Change is hard. One big reason is that old habits are stubborn. (The adage “old habits die hard” couldn’t be truer.) “When we decide that we want to change, we’ve probably been repeating the same habits for decades,” said Gail Brenner, Ph.D, a psychologist for over 20 years. “These patterns become deeply

By Andrea Still “Pain can change you, but that doesn’t mean it has to be a bad change. Take that pain and turn it into wisdom.” ~Unknown Sometimes other people’s words can stir up very painful emotions in us. Do you remember when you felt so disempowered by someone’s remarks that you froze on the

Travis Bradberry (contributor) There are two kinds of people in this world: those who believe they can make things happen and those who believe things happen to them. The first group are convinced that the outcome of their lives and careers is more or less in their own hands, and they wouldn’t have it any other

By Kathy Hardie-Williams, MEd, MS, NCC, LPC, LMFT, Parent Work, Topic Expert Contributor So often, parents focus on their child’s level of academic intelligence as a predictor for future success. It goes without saying that children who do well academically typically have more opportunities available to them. However, there is an additional type of intelligence that is

By Elyse Gorman, Writer and founder of NotesonBliss.com We spend so much time doing our best work on the outside — working on our bodies, careers, relationships, cooking skills and goals. It’s just as important to spend time doing work on the inside — developing deep and lasting self-love, acceptance and compassion. The more we can

By Alice Jones Webb It shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone that kids these days just aren’t getting outside very much. Drive through any suburban neighborhood on a Saturday and the groups of bicycling youngsters and impromptu street football games that were so common just a couple of decades ago just aren’t there. Corralled

By Sarah Noel, MS, LMHC, Person Centered/ Rogerian Psychotherapy Imagine your best friend comes to you deeply distraught—her father died six months ago, and her mother’s health is rapidly deteriorating. Over the past year, she has been consumed with managing care and legal issues, making funeral preparations, and grieving. Naturally, some things at work and at

Putting space between you and your reaction allows you to respond with kindness—and gets you out of autopilot mode with your children, Mitch Abblett writes.  In any moment as parents, we can choose to react or let it go. I’ve witnessed moments of parents I was working with holding tongues instead of lashing out, of

By Jennie Lee One of the most universal human fears is the fear of dying. It is instinctual to act in ways that preserve life and rightly so, for we are not meant to seek death.  However fear of dying, which is as much a part of life as being born, limits our ability to