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A Conversation With Eamon Dolan on 'The Power of Parting'

A Conversation With Eamon Dolan on 'The Power of Parting'

Finding peace and freedom through family estrangement.

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Duygu Balan Lpcc

What Should You Say to Anti-Vaxxers to Keep Us All Healthy?

What Should You Say to Anti-Vaxxers to Keep Us All Healthy?

Anti-vaxxers say they have freedom of choice, but they are harming others.

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Robert Klitzman M.d

Why Setting Boundaries Triggers Guilt and Anxiety

Why Setting Boundaries Triggers Guilt and Anxiety

Saying “no” feels uncomfortable, but it can actually strengthen relationships.

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Jennifer Guttman Psy.d

Emotions Are Facts: Why Therapy Requires Talking About Them

Emotions Are Facts: Why Therapy Requires Talking About Them

Want therapy without opening up about emotions? That's not really therapy.

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Daniel Marston Ph.d

The Atheist's Guide to Surviving End Times

The Atheist's Guide to Surviving End Times

Personal Perspective: How to lead a meaningful life amid catastrophic conditions.

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Ira Israel Lmft

Rest and Chronic Illness

Rest and Chronic Illness

Managing fatigue with intentional restoration.

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Katie Willard Virant Msw

The Evolution of Brain and Intelligence

The Evolution of Brain and Intelligence

How come we are so smart and our brains so big?

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Joachim I. Krueger Ph.d

When Shame Becomes the Seed of Violence

When Shame Becomes the Seed of Violence

Early support can redirect a child carrying shame toward resilience.

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Sigifredo Castell Britton Ph.d

May Confusion Dawn As Wisdom

May Confusion Dawn As Wisdom

Personal Perspective: Confusion may be the best thing to happen to us.

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Maggie Rowe

Creating Our Own Luck: 4 Ideas for Taking Decisive Action

Creating Our Own Luck: 4 Ideas for Taking Decisive Action

Luck-related symbols are fun, but specific actions contribute more to success.

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Sandra Wartski Psy.d

How Gaslighters Con Their Partners into Believing Them

How Gaslighters Con Their Partners into Believing Them

There’s a method to the madness when gaslighters rewrite the narrative.

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Susan krauss whitbourne

When Anxiety Comes Out as Irritability

When Anxiety Comes Out as Irritability

Understanding the deeper feelings beneath irritability and anger.

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Santiago Delboy Mba

Ideas We Aren’t Ready to Understand—Yet

Ideas We Aren’t Ready to Understand—Yet

Why the mind sometimes needs time to make sense of important ideas.

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Michiko Kimura Bruno M.d

Can a Ketogenic Diet "Cure" Schizophrenia?

Can a Ketogenic Diet

Examining the role of diet in schizophrenia treatment.

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Matthew m. kurtz ph.d

Are You Being Held In Your Relationship?

Are You Being Held In Your Relationship?

How emotional safety can lead to enduring connection.

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Keven Duffy Lcsw

How Does the Brain Know Itself?

How Does the Brain Know Itself?

What we know, what we think we know, and what we know we don't.

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Grant Hilary Brenner Md

When Your Body Pays the Price of Family Belonging

When Your Body Pays the Price of Family Belonging

Driven women can be present in relationships without dimming their light.

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Annie Wright Lmft

How the In-Between Helps Men Make Friends

How the In-Between Helps Men Make Friends

Why it’s important for men to do things together.

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Jarie Bolander

Envisioning Retirement: Reinvention, Redefinition, Clarity

Envisioning Retirement: Reinvention, Redefinition, Clarity

Why do people retire when they can work? Why do they work when they can retire?

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Gina Barreca Ph.d

The Trouble with Review Bombing

The Trouble with Review Bombing

When online ratings become weaponized, society suffers.

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Moses Ma

Why Men Need Therapists Who Aren’t Afraid of Them

Why Men Need Therapists Who Aren’t Afraid of Them

Men speak when they sense the therapist can handle the truth.

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Thomas W Jefferys Ph.d

Intrinsic Motivation Helped Alysa Liu Win Gold

Intrinsic Motivation Helped Alysa Liu Win Gold

How to identify and foster intrinsic motivation, as Alysa Liu did..

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Kelly chen md

William Shatner Shows the Way for Name Ridicule

William Shatner Shows the Way for Name Ridicule

Emotionally healthy people can take and make a joke about themselves.

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Izzy Kalman

Another Holiday Dinner, Another Political Meltdown?

Another Holiday Dinner, Another Political Meltdown?

Introspection techniques can help bridge ideological divides.

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Mark horowitz ph.d

Needed: Providers Who Can Diagnose and Treat Adult ADHD

Needed: Providers Who Can Diagnose and Treat Adult ADHD

We do not have enough experienced clinicians to keep up with adult ADHD.

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Russell Ramsay

Has Therapy Felt Useless? You May Have Been Misunderstood

Has Therapy Felt Useless? You May Have Been Misunderstood

If therapy hasn't helped, it might be because of a poor fit.

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Karyn Hall Ph.d

When Protection Becomes Punishment

When Protection Becomes Punishment

What mandated reporter training misses about racism and family safety.

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Rupinder K. Legha M.d

Gossip, Power, and the Stories We Tell

Gossip, Power, and the Stories We Tell

How gossip influences trust and cooperation in groups.

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Jennifer Verdolin Ph.d

6 Signs You're a Smart Person

6 Signs You're a Smart Person

To develop your intellectual talents, you need to recognize them first.

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Alice Boyes Ph.d

The Silent Tax of Workplace Bullying

The Silent Tax of Workplace Bullying

How workplace bullying drains the bottom line and what leaders can do about it

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Saima ahmad ph.d

Trust Nature’s Medicine: A New Perspective on Insomnia

Trust Nature’s Medicine: A New Perspective on Insomnia

Better sleep begins when we stop trying to control it and let biology do its job

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The british association for behavioural and cognitive psychotherapies

4 Ways to Stop Relying on Reassurance for Self-Worth

4 Ways to Stop Relying on Reassurance for Self-Worth

Four ways to start grounding your self-worth internally rather than externally.

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Mark Travers Ph.d

Every Picture Tells a Story

Every Picture Tells a Story

Viewing old photos of a child who died is heartbreaking and healing.

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Larry Carlat

When School Traditions Hurt

When School Traditions Hurt

What kind of message do schools send through parent-child special events?

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Lisa pescara-kovach ph.d

When Therapists Say They Don’t Treat Dissociation

When Therapists Say They Don’t Treat Dissociation

Why many trauma-informed clinicians miss dissociation in everyday therapy.

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Adrian Fletcher Psy.d

Reality Splits: Seeing Different Worlds in Mixed Reality

Reality Splits: Seeing Different Worlds in Mixed Reality

What perceptual conflicts in mixed reality teach us about sharing one reality.

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Matilde Tassinari Ph.d

What Americans Can Learn From Immigrants

What Americans Can Learn From Immigrants

Valuing relationships over efficiency can improve health and happiness.

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Gina Simmons Schneider Ph.d

When Your Adult Child Is Stuck, and Helping Isn't Helping

When Your Adult Child Is Stuck, and Helping Isn't Helping

Why good intentions sometimes keep families caught in the same painful cycle.

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Jeffrey Bernstein Ph.d

Can Media Literacy Games Travel Across Cultures?

Can Media Literacy Games Travel Across Cultures?

What we learned testing two prebunking games in Indonesia and the United States.

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Matthew Facciani

Art as a Biological Bedrock of Shared Humanity

Art as a Biological Bedrock of Shared Humanity

When we experience music or dance together, our nervous systems can synchronize.

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Sara Leila Sherman

A Brain-Based Parenting Shift That Can Help Kids With ADHD

A Brain-Based Parenting Shift That Can Help Kids With ADHD

Research-backed techniques to boost children's focus and motivation.

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Hannah Leib Schlichter Lcsw

The Fear of Being Alone

The Fear of Being Alone

A Personal Perspective: Loneliness can lead us to personal wholeness.

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David Richo Ph.d

How Childhood Trauma Shapes Dissociative Identity Disorder

How Childhood Trauma Shapes Dissociative Identity Disorder

Repeated early abuse and neglect can fragment a developing self.

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Fabiana Franco Ph.d

Why We’re So Unprepared for Death

Why We’re So Unprepared for Death

Why caregiving, avoidance, and cultural silence leave us unprepared for loss.

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Ankita Guchait Mbpss

Resilience, Quitting, and Sustainable Performance

Resilience, Quitting, and Sustainable Performance

Powerful lessons from Alysa Liu’s comeback.

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Paula Davis J.d

The Importance of Watching the Watchers

The Importance of Watching the Watchers

Surveillance: The perils of covert observation.

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Richard Restak M.d

The Science of Buying

The Science of Buying

How personality and trust shape our buying decisions.

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Ryan C. Warner Ph.d

Guilt and Shame Are Not the Same

Guilt and Shame Are Not the Same

Guilt equals "I did something bad," while shame equals "I am something bad."

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Lybi Ma

Do We Really Hear Our Adult Children?

Do We Really Hear Our Adult Children?

In interactions with adult children, it's our job to model a respectful dialogue.

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Margo Lowy Ph.d

Do You Eat When You’re Bored?

Do You Eat When You’re Bored?

To break the cycle of mindless eating, learn how to be good company for yourself.

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Andrea Wachter Lmft