Author Archives: Susan Heitler

To Be Happy You May Need to be Stressed

Want to feel more upbeat? More enthusiastic about the day ahead when you wake up in the morning? Try this surprising remedy.

Thrill-Seeking: What Parts of Your Brain Are Involved?

Why do smart people sometimes feel attracted to absurdly dangerous activities? Why do winter Olympic athletes for instance devote their lives to putting their lives in danger?

Treatment Resistant Depression: Here’s Multiple New Options

For about a third of folks who try antidepressant medications, pills do not alleviate the depression. Here's a good news round-up of alternative theories and treatments.

Three Ways to Use Play to Get Kids to Behave

Parenting, they say, is the art of getting kids to do what you want them to do, and getting them to stop doing what you don't want them to do. How can play help with both?

Valentine Day’s Thoughts on Love and Marriage

There's no time like Valentine's Day to think about what you can do to make your love relationship all the more positive.

Too Many Therapists Misdiagnose and Mistreat Alienation

Finding therapists who know how to help alienated children can be a nightmare.

Tone of Voice: How Do You Sound to Your Family?

Notice your reactions when someone in your household growls or barks at you. Do you want others in your household to feel that way toward you?

Two Classic Cases of Courts Failing Alienated Parents

The court system can let children, parents, and grandparents down. How can judges, lawyers, and advisory mental health professionals better protect them?

There Is Hope: 19 Innovations That Could Put an End to COVID

Feeling discouraged about the havoc being wreaked by COVID-19? These new products and treatments could bring the pandemic to a halt.

The Woman Who Saved Marriage

One woman's dedication to the idea of marriage education reversed America's rising divorce rates and may have saved the institution of marriage.