How Feelings Can Change Our Memories
by Caroline Leavitt The truth of a memory isn’t as important as the truth of the feelings behind it. KEY POINTS I admit I can obsess about seemingly terrible things…
The Source for Independent Thought and Analysis
by Caroline Leavitt The truth of a memory isn’t as important as the truth of the feelings behind it. KEY POINTS I admit I can obsess about seemingly terrible things…
Shahram Heshmat Ph.D. How can we improve well-being with good decision-making? KEY POINTS Good decision-making requires weighing the value of immediate rewards versus delayed rewards. For instance, would we prefer to consume…
by Jennifer Gerlach LCSW It’s more about self-love than self-control. KEY POINTS A lady used to tell me the worst things. She would shout my fears as I tried to…
by Monica Vermani C. Psych. Try this step-by-step process for cleaning up your negative thoughts. KEY POINTS Everything ever imagined, created, or achieved was first thought. Positive or negative thoughts…
by Alphonsus Obayuwana M.D., Ph.D., CPC The key to understanding humanity. KEY POINTS If you allow me to define hunger as a compelling desire, it could then be said that every one…
An expert discusses why. Story by Steven Petrow Black men face many more health hurdles. Social epidemiologist Roland Thorpe Jr. is on a double mission: to improve the health and extend the…
The Bridge of Pebbles A Personal Perspective: Making big changes in our lives starts with small steps. by Phil Stark, AMFT People often come to talk therapy because they have found themselves…
by Gurnek Bains Ph.D. And what we can do to make them stick. KEY POINTS This is the time of year that many of us plan for change in our…
by Rachel Allyn Ph.D. The current trend towards choosing low or no alcohol might bring benefits. The new year in January holds the potential to shed old baggage and cultivate…
by Gina Barreca Ph.D. You don’t have to jingle anybody’s bells if you’re not in the mood. KEY POINTS I’m not a big-time holiday person, and I’m not the only…