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How to encourage your child to tell the truth? This article shares interesting tips to help you teach your kids the value of honesty.

Have you ever met someone who’s presence just seems to make everyone smile? You’d think they have an internal magnet that draws people to them and makes

Can clothing styles really affect one's success? Find out what your clothes say about you and how you can use them to your advantage.

When we go through certain trials in life, we panic. For me, a trial that I am going through right now would be facing intrusive thoughts. Intrusive

Confidence is important for many different reasons. When you’re confident, you’ll feel more equipped to experience life and move forward with

Discover how Instagram live badges empower creators to earn money during live streams and enhance viewer engagement.

I was talking with my client Aayra about how she, as a manager, could handle writing a warning to an insubordinate subordinate. I could tell from her body language that Aayra was uncomfortable writing anything highly critical about her employee and she wa...

I once had a client who’d informally poll everyone she knew—family, co-workers, friends—whenever she had to make a decision. I don’t mean just major decisions about changing jobs or boyfriends, I mean relatively minor ones like what color to paint her wal...

My client Saul and I had an enlightening chat about what could possibly replace his yearning for perfection in order to feel good about himself. Actually, for Saul perfection is beyond simple desire and more a matter of emotional life-and-death: If I don’...

If you or your family use AI/ChatGPT as “therapy,” consider this warning that isn’t based on personal usage but from a client suddenly dropping out after years of therapy with me via an email in which she refused to give a reason for leaving or have a wra...

Many of my clients fear making mistakes. I don’t mean they’re a bit uneasy about it: they’re terrified of not doing things right because they imagine vague catastrophic consequences if they do something wrong. They believe the problem is their lack of con...

Jonathan Alpert’s article, We're Spending $300 Billion a Year on Mental Health Care. Why Is It Making Us Sicker? raises the question of whether we can do a proper job as psychotherapists if we’re afraid to cause clients psychological and emotional distres...

Many people are so focused on outcomes—winning, succeeding, achieving perfection or controlling life—they forget the importance of standing up for themselves and others. Is something only worthwhile when it turns out how you want or is there value in what...

Why do we seem so surprised when things pop up that are a pain in the butt or a knife in the heart? Why is it such a shock to the system? We think, “Honestly, after having such a great day, now I have to deal with this (whatever this is). Why can’t things...

When I wrote The Rules of “Normal” Eating, a colleague advised against using the word “rules” in the title because it was too diet-like and external sounding, while my view was on using internal guidelines for eating. This complex issue often arises in tr...

One of the saddest aspects of client work is watching many of you drift through life. Maybe you used to feel passion and purpose but have become so mired in eating problems, depression or anxiety, you’ve lost all desire to make something of yourself or be...