“Don’t Touch your Face”: Practical Ways to Practice Mindfulness
Oops! I did it again! “Don’t touch your face” is one of the important public health advisements provided to help fight the COVID-19 pandemic. Germs on the hands can easily be transmitted to the internal body through contact with the more permeable mucous membranes of...
A Response to ‘The Strange Case of Donald J. Trump: A Psychological Reckoning’
A psychologist from Northwestern University, Dan P. McAdams, has written a book called ‘The Strange Case of Donald J. Trump: A Psychological Reckoning’, which was reviewed by the university’s website. McAdams is an advocate of what he calls a “narrative approach to...
Take a Journey Within: Podcast Series
JOIN ME FOR THIS PODCAST ON FEB. 25 2020 I've been asked to speak on a podcast series on self-acceptance and related topics. Here is some info. It's free, just signup here Are you feeling disconnected from yourself? Do you want to feel less stressed and more...
What Makes Trump Dangerous? His Willful Ignorance
Every incident involving Trump reveals yet again aspects of his pathological personality and provides examples of his dangerous sociopathic and narcissistic traits. An excerpt from the new book “A Very Stable Genius: Donald J. Trump’s Testing of America,” by...
Self-Compassion Heals Everything
I read Greater Good Magazine online, a publication by University of California, Berkley that “studies the psychology, sociology, and neuroscience of well-being, and teaches skills that foster a thriving, resilient, and compassionate society,” to quote their...
Let’s Help Chuck Todd Recover from His Abusive Relationship
Poor Chuck Todd! He’s just coming to realize something some of us realized years ago. He, and most other journalists, have been involved in an abusive relationship with Donald J. Trump and the Trump Party. Todd, a powerful decision-maker in political...
How to Spot a Narcissist: Vague Language and Lots of It
Narcissists also may try to bury their lack of knowledge or poor behavior in an avalanche of words, and this is what our current president does every day. Read any part of this bizarre transcript of a press event President Donald Trump held with Italian president Sergio Mattarella and your head will start spinning.
Announcing: Workshop on How to Develop Self-Compassion
Stop repeating anxiety-provoking habits of negative thinking and self-criticism! Learn how your mind and body can be harnessed to provide self-soothing. Develop meditation and mindfulness skills to be calm and manage your emotions and thoughts in healthy ways.
Trump’s Threats and Intimidation are Verbal Abuse
In early 2017, I was one of a group of experts on violence, psychopathology, and authoritarianism who wrote the bestselling book “The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump: 27 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Professionals Assess a President.” Dangerous is a word used...
How Parents Create Anxiety in a Child
So much of my time in family therapy is spent on parenting education about the inadvertent ways parents create anxiety in a child. As this article explains, through their communication and disciplining methods parents can make a child fearful. Most parents come to...