Category Archives: Self-Help

Marriage: 8 Dangerously Wrong Conventional Wisdoms

Mistaken advice about marriage can have potent impacts. Beware especially of these relationship-wreckers.

Need a GPS for Navigating Life’s Challenges?

Aiming for personal happiness and positive relationships, yet having trouble finding your way?

Loneliness: a Temporary State or a Vulnerable Way of Life?

Needing to break free of social isolation and to begin forming gratifying connections?

Love: 13 Reasons Why It May Not Lead to Marriage

Statistics and speculations on the causes of the epidemic of singleness spreading over our country, and how to combat it.

Marriage Problems? Here’s an 8-Step Rescue Plan

Is your marriage hitting bumps? Feeling hopeless? This self-help version of couples counseling can put you on smoother and more solid ground.

Is Natural Better?

A new book sheds light on the question of whether natural approaches to diet, childbirth, healing and the environment really keep us healthier and happier.

Jealousy: The 3 Main Causes and Their Cures

Jealousy eats you up inside and causes you to pick fights with the one you love. How could this distressing feeling be a helpful solution to a real-life dilemma? Here's how.

Job Loss: 4 Steps to Speeding Up Your Recovery

Job loss can empty your pockets and your self-confidence as well. Here's strategies to help you recover from this and other emotional wounds.

I Know I Need Therapy Help, but Is My Therapy Working?

Not all therapy proves to be helpful. How can you assess if the particular therapist and treatment you are involved with are likely to succeed in helping you to solve your problems? Here are two perspectives and a set of nine guiding questions.

If You Speak Negativity, It’s Time to Learn a 2nd Language

Three speech patterns, which I call the 3-D's, are especially likely to trigger depressed feelings in a receiver. Do any of these sound familiar to you?