As I type this I have just returned from a sacred ritual that only some lucky parents get to enjoy: the annual return to college, a pilgrimage of semi-epic proportions where we journey to the far reaches of this long,… Continue Reading
As I shared in my last two columns, I used to suffer with tinnitus but not any longer. I still have it. Like I have baldness and other symptoms of being 57 years old. It is present like the clouds… Continue Reading
My dear brother Jim married Karen in June of 2005 in Denver, Colorado. In the months leading up to the wedding I was living in my own private hell. Few knew how much I suffered. From nowhere it seemed, as… Continue Reading
To be alive in the world is to possess a priceless gift of self-awareness. Usually we take this for granted. We are not normally in awe of the fact. It is easy to yawn and shrug at the incredible and stunning truth that we are alive on a round rock that is rotating at a 1000 miles an hour at the equator. Continue Reading
To be alive in the world is to possess a priceless gift of self-awareness. Usually we take this for granted. We are not normally in awe of the fact. It is easy to yawn and shrug at the incredible and stunning truth that we are alive on a round rock that is rotating at a 1000 miles an hour at the equator. Continue Reading
My narcissism showed up early, like many of us, I suppose. I remember telling my mother when I was in kindergarten to save all my papers because someday I will be “great” and those papers will be important. We lived… Continue Reading
Like most humans, I am full of contradictions. Something in us insists it shouldn’t be, but there it is. I spend 10 hours a day five days a week applying my 35-years’ worth of experience and knowledge about the human brain… Continue Reading
Looking back now, I would say I was a worried child, tending to be more shy, sensitive and insecure than most. Some kids are like emotional sponges. They feel everything around them and until they figure out how to regulate… Continue Reading
In my work with my clients I constantly use metaphors. I do this on purpose. It is deliberative because it is effective. It is an essential part of the therapeutic process. It is about changing brains. When our brains change,… Continue Reading
It isn’t easy being a human being, although I don’t recall my parents ever clueing me into this fact when I was a kid. I guess it is one of those things you just figure out as you grow up. When… Continue Reading
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