The discussion of male sexual abuse is slowly moving out of the shadows. The following piece is by a male victim of sexual abuse by both of his parents and others beginning early in his life. He is writing a book of...
Category - Emotional Health
Lisa Brookes Kift, MFT
What Are You Feeding Your Mind?
Craig Harper, a leading coach in Australia with a direct, wry and authentic writing style, compares the choices people make in their thinking and behaviors to the choices they make in what they put into their bodies...
Craig Harper, B.Ex.Sci.
New Year’s Resolutions for a Therapist
Many believe that therapists must get everything right in their lives. They should have great relationships and are happy most of the time. If we make our living guiding others towards emotional and relationship...
Ouch! How to Deal with Rejection
Margie Ulbrick, an Australian relationship counselor, takes the sting out of rejection by providing useful tools to more effectively move through this common experience. Rejection is a universally human experience. We...
Margie Ulbrick
Is it hard? Accept difficulty.
Rick Hanson, PhD explores how peace can be more easily acquired if one learns to accept the challenges of life rather than be caught up in annoyance. He offers a number of ways to be better at handling the hard stuff...
Rick Hanson, PhD
6 Ways to Improve Your Mood Today
Ashley Davis Bush, LCSW provides some excellent tools and practices to help boost your happiness every day. You don’t need a life makeover to experience more happiness. By putting a few simple habits in place, you will...
Ashley Davis Bush, LCSW
Overcoming a Difficult Past: Shaking Off the “Worthlessness” Monkey
Amy Eden looks at how to navigate feelings of worthlessness stemming from a difficult past. As you grow, and gain joy in your healing and growing-up-in-adulthood process, it’s just as important to embrace dark moments...
Amy Eden
Do Positive Experiences “Stick to Your Ribs?” Take in the Good.
Rick Hanson, PhD takes a look at how the brain’s negativity bias sets many of us up to struggle with allowing positive experiences to stick, making managing stress and resilience challenging. Scientists believe...
Resilience Through Creating a Circle of Support
Linda Graham, MFT examines how creating a circle of support as a refuge can build resilience, whether in life or visualized. Refuge simply means a safe, supportive place to be when we are fragile or confused, a safe...
Linda Graham, MFT
With Happiness, It’s Not “One Size Fits All”
What makes you happy doesn’t necessarily do it for the next. In fact, it’s a mistake to try to follow a set of cookie-cutter steps to attaining the happiness pot of gold (which is less static then fluid...
