The new year typically brings a fresh batch of health tips and ideas for living better from all directions in the media. I recently read an interesting set of ideas online geared specifically for restful sleep, courtesy of a new book by Elizabeth Somer, RD, called Eat Your Way to Happiness from my friends the YOU DOCs, Dr. Michael Roizen and Dr. Mehmet Oz. Can you really eat your way to a good night’s rest? Yes, you can. What ...
Seeking a happy relationship? If so - what traits are you prioritzing finding in a partner? Most of the people I coach say they focus mainly on finding a partner who is sexy, smart, funny, successful, charismatic. Although these qualities are important, in my book PRINCE HARMING SYNDROME I explain how there are 5 essential traits which must come far before these traits. For the purposes of this article, I will only be honing in on 1 of these 5 traits - the ...
A few weeks ago when I was out walking, I noticed a sign in the window of one of the local tattoo shops. "Yes, it hurts!" the sign declared. The sign made me recall a question that frequently occurs when talking about self-injury. Are tattoos and piercings really just forms of self-injury? After all, with both of these acts the person is consenting to something that will injure and disfigure the body (at least temporarily). It might make sense that tattoos and piercings are just different methods of self-injury. I've previously stated that self-injury is an act that inflicts harm to one's self, by one's self, not for the purpose of suicide. In the cases of tattooing and piercing the harm is definitely done to oneself (as opposed to another). If I want a tattoo, the ink is going on ...
MMT is an exciting new development in which mindfulness is applied directly to help transform and resolve difficult emotional states such as anxiety, fear, phobias, anger and other forms of habitual emotional reactivity that affects the quality of our happiness and the quality of our personal relationships.Personal relationships provide one of the greatest challenges in life and most of us will experience difficulties with patterns of habitual reactivity triggered by our partner, our children or other family members. Our buttons get pushed and we become angry or upset, fearful or anxious. This dynamic is based on learned habitual reactivity and both the perpetrator and victim are compelled to react, often against their better judgment. You may say something knowing that it will cause offense, but are unable to stop yourself from saying it. The victim also feels compelled to react ...
