An "Inside-Out" Life Helps You Redefine Success
Building your inner life and awakening your true self provide the guidance for knowing what to go after, or let pass by, in your outer life choices -- in your career goals, material desires, and...
View ArticleWhy Do Men Feel Bad When Their Romantic Partners Succeed?
Research finds that men's self-esteem drops when their spouse or partner succeeds, but the findings suggest that many men feel threatened by social and cultural changes that undermine their traditional...
View ArticleWhy The Impact of Child Abuse Extends Well Into Adulthood
The impact of child abuse extends well into adulthood. New research finds it has negative consequences for the adult's mental and physical health. But other research points to ways that can heal the...
View ArticleHow To Tell If Your Workplace Is In Tune With Its Own Future
Ongoing changes in the larger culture, as well as in the orientation of workers towards career goals, will affect the future success of business organizations. Here are some guidelines for assessing...
View Article"Take This Job And..."
One survey reports that older workers are quite satisfied with their jobs. But a number of other surveys find high dissatisfaction, stress and negative experiences in their workplaces, including...
View ArticleWhy Reading Serious Fiction Expands Your Mind and Soul
Reading serious fiction directly increases your capacity for empathy and compassion; the overall development of your being. That's important not just for psychotherapists, to increase their capacity...
View ArticleCaught Between "Longing" vs. "Settling" In Your Marriage?
Midlife baby boomers experience increasing marital conflict as a result of the legacy of their early ideals. For many, that takes the form of feeling caught between "longing" to recapture a lost ideal,...
View ArticleWhy Your Therapist Should Go "Back to the Future"
A key insight of a group of psychoanalytic pioneers in the 1930s - early 1950s has been ignored in the decades since then. Yet that insight is highly relevant to helping the kinds of emotional...
View ArticleWill Your Financial Success Cost You "Whole Life" Success?
The mounting stress and other physical and psychological damage from devotion to money, power, and status narrows your awareness of who you used to be, that you're no longer sure you're capable of...
View ArticleHow To "Grow" Your Mental Health
The mental health field has ignored what a psychologically healthy life looks like, and what promotes it. Much information exists that can help build psychological health, but ironically, it's largely...
View ArticleThe Rapid Transformation of Business Leaders Is Underway
Recent surveys and research show that the background of today's senior leaders in business is increasingly diverse. Moreover, leadership needs of the future will require different skills, including...
View ArticleAnother Survey Shows the Continuing Toll of Workplace Stress
Yet another survey shows the prevalence of workplace stress across organizations, and in different countries. Most striking is that the majority of those polled say their company does "nothing" to deal...
View ArticleAre You Depressed Within Your Marriage? Here's Why
New research indicates that marital stress makes you vulnerable to depression, and less able to experience positive moments. The research exposes another, deeper question: What occurs within marriages...
View ArticleDoes Having a Life Purpose Lead to a Longer Life?
New research finds that having a life purpose is linked with a longer life. But how does one create a sense of purpose in today's tumultuous, distracting, multi-tasking culture? Here are some ways.read...
View ArticleCynical? You're Increasing Your Risk of Dementia
Cynical attitudes about life are associated with a three-fold increase in the risk of dementia. The research adds to our knowledge that we are biological-psychological-spirittual-social beings. All...
View ArticleThe Power of Your Emotional Attitudes Upon Your Entire Being
We are integrated biological-psychological-social-spirituatl beings. Research shows the significant, system-wide impact our emotional attitudes and perspectives about life have upon our entire being --...
View ArticleWhy Your Boss May Be Ineffective or Dysfunctional
Today's organizations require leaders to activate dormant capacities for both linear and non-linear thinking–often at the same time. New research shows that most people are capable of that, and knowing...
View ArticleDoes Short-Term Meditation Work? Here's What Research Found
It's known that the practice of mediation helps diminish symptoms of stress and anxiety and increase emotional resilience, but most research has looked at long-term meditative practice. Now, new...
View ArticleSo Much Work, No Time For Vacation? Here's Why!
Our socially conditioned attitudes about work and success underlies, and is reinforced by, the trend towards long hours and little time away for vacations or to recharge. That's visible in the...
View ArticleCan a Fight With Your Partner Re-Energize Your Sex Life?
Many couples assume that conflict and fighting are the norm for most relationships, and that they are unrelated to their sex lives. But research and clinical observation shows how they are intertwined...
View ArticleFeeling Trapped In A Life Conflict? Why "Leaving" It Helps
People often feel caught with a relationship conflict or life dilemma that feels unsolvable. But stepping "away" from the problem, and viewing it from an enlarged, "outside" perspective can help you...
View ArticleWhy Positive Relationships Are Needed for Emotional Health
New research finds that supportive, mutual relationships are essential for positive, healthy development, including the capacity for continuous growth, development and wellbeing.read more
View ArticleDo Couples Who Share Housework Really Have Less Sex?
Sharing housework has a definite impact on couples' sex lives. One study found that couples who divide chores along traditional roles have more sex. But a new, more comprehensive study turns those...
View ArticleUnconventional Sex & Love Relationships: Increasing Numbers?
There's growing acceptance of untraditional forms of relationship, today. They include polyamory, consensual non-monogamous relationships, affairs; and even some who argue for legalization of polygamy....
View ArticleChildhood Psychological Abuse: Its Many Harmful Forms
There are many forms of unrecognized psychological abuse of children. All have lasting impact, and can be as harmful, if not more so, than physical abuse.read more
View ArticleHow Yoga & Meditation Increase Creativity & Healthy Emotions
Research continues to demonstrate the power of meditation and yoga practices to transform our entire beings. These two new studies illustrate how creativity in increased from meditation; and that yoga...
View ArticleWhy Emotionally Troubled Bosses Continue to Thrive
Much of our cultural view of "success" in life and career is rooted in values and behavior that can create emotional conflicts for many - including debilitating trade-offs, anger and feelings of...
View ArticleDescending Into Loneliness During The Holidays? What Helps?
The increased loneliness that some experience around holidays may be rooted in childhood or adult life experiences. Understanding their origin points to what may help rectify that damaging sense of...
View ArticleA Holiday Tradition With My Children Had to End, Here's Why
A long tradition of decorating, and then taking down, the Christmas tree with my children began when we still an in-tact family, and continued beyond, when I was a single parent. Eventually our...
View ArticleResearch Confirms That Men Are, In Fact, Idiots
An investigation of winners of the Darwin Award, which highlights extreme, foolish risk-taking behavior, compared the frequency of "winners" who are male vs. female. The study found a statistically...
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