Category Archives: Self-Help
Can a 4-Step Self-Help Therapy Technique End Upset Feelings?
Therapists use this technique to help their clients gain insight and feel better. Can it also relieve upset feelings if you use it as a self-help technique?
Can Energy Psychology Treatments End Chronic Pain?
New energy psychology techniques may revolutionize the way psychologists and physicians treat pain. They sure have helped me.
Are You Falling Out of Love? A Quiz on 10 Warning Signs
"Falling out of love" has become the most common cause of divorce, trumping even affairs and abuse. The good news is that it can be prevented.
Are You Good Enough?
How comfortable do you feel with yourself? The time-tested ideas of Donald Winnicott suggest that feeling good enough fosters acceptance from others.
Bad Luck, Bad Choices or Psychological Reversal?
Are you your own worst enemy? You may suffer from a subconscious phenomenon that therapists are just at the very beginning stages of recognizing and treating.
Beware: Thinking Leads to Doing
Sports psychologists teach athletes to visualize making a winning basketball free throw or an effective tennis serve before doing the action. That’s because thinking prepares you for doing. When you think about something, the odds zoom upwards that you will do just what your mind was picturing. The lesson: be careful what you think about!
And the Opposite of Impatience Is….
Impatience and irritability can increase with the stresses brought on by the Chanukah-Christmas season--or you can wash away your negative emotional reactions by dissolving them in this powerful antidote......
Antidotes to Boredom: Why Shopping is Fun
Boredom comes from too much sameness. Shopping—for new things, new friends or new love—can, by contrast, feel fun. Newness is invigorating. Why?
Anxiety Problems, Part II: 3 Habits That Help
What is usually the fastest and most thorough route to ending fearful feelings? It's not necessarily distraction.
Apologies: How To Do Them Skillfully in 5 Steps
How can you repay emotional debts incurred by hurtful mistakes? Effective apologies can wipe the debt clean, and even turn your mistake into a nourishing relationship moment.