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Are you proud of your behavior?
December 9, 2020
Several years ago, my wife and I took our kids to the beach on a beautiful Florida afternoon. We decided it might be nice to take a walk as a family, so we gathered all three kids and started a […]
Read MoreLove: The most powerful force in the world
November 9, 2020
I want to tell you about three conversations I have had over the last several weeks that capture the current spirit of our times in fairly dramatic fashion. The first conversation was with a young man enrolled as a senior […]
Read MoreThe Coronavirus Comeback
October 7, 2020
It was Game 1 of the 1995 NBA Eastern Conference Finals and the Indiana Pacers were down 6 points to the New York Knicks with just 18 seconds left. It looked like Reggie Miller’s Pacers would surely lose the battle […]
Read MoreBack to School : COVID Edition
September 9, 2020
In the next few weeks, children all over the country will be returning to school during one of the most unusual and challenging times of our generation. Although there is still a debate on whether or not this is a […]
Read MoreEmotional Impact of COVID-19
August 10, 2020
As COVID 19 continues to linger across our nation, the effects of the virus are becoming clear. While the physical toll the virus takes on those afflicted is obvious, we are starting to see how quarantine and “shelter in place” […]
Read MoreCultural Borderline Personality Style
July 15, 2020
Let’s imagine that a client named Linda walks into my clinical office complaining about emotional instability and difficulty with interpersonal relationships. As I conduct my assessment, I ask her to describe her emotional reactivity and she recounts numerous instances in […]
Read MoreFear and Control: The Answer is Surrender
June 10, 2020
One of the most interesting aspects of a psychology practice is the ebb and flow of my patients’ emotional regulation. There are times when people have personal situations and even biological predispositions that create an increase in the severity of […]
Read MoreBeauty Out of the Ashes
May 15, 2020
Can beauty come out of the ashes? That’s a question many of us are asking as we look squarely at the devastation the Coronavirus has wrought in our country. It really does seem like the world is on fire as […]
Read MoreFix What’s Perfect
April 22, 2020
You have two choices: You can hire the Valedictorian of the senior class at Harvard or the guy who just barely scraped by at the bottom of Harvard’s latest graduating class. What’s it going to be? When presented with these […]
Read MoreThe Zone
March 23, 2020
It was June of 1992 and the Portland Trailblazers were pulling ahead of the Chicago Bulls in game 1 of the NBA Championship. As a Bulls fan, I was flat out nervous because it seemed as if the game was […]
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