Signs That Different Parts Are Active
For a few weeks now, we've been talking about the brain and how it can create different parts of ourselves in order to survive certain...
The Self: Our Refuge and Strength
For the last few weeks, I have been talking about the many different parts we all have and how they functioned to help us survive when we...
Our Many Selves: From Help to Harm
From the earliest days of modern psychological thought, Freud recognized that our psyches are made of different parts. He named them the...
Our Many Selves: Rocketman
Timing is everything. After writing last week's article, several people recommended that I go see the movie Rocketman, the story of Elton...
Internal Contradictions
Have you ever found yourself wanting to live one way, yet actually doing the opposite? You want to be kind and peaceful. You have...
When Living “Right” Is Wrong: Subtle Ways We Engage In Acts of Self-Hate
Just as you can love and hate another person, you can also love and hate yourself. It can happen to any of us from time to time. Some of...
What Destroys Relationships? Love, Hate or Indifference?
Being human means you can love and hate at the same time. Love and hate can make us behave in ways in which we are not fully in control....
Six Principles of Love: Building on an Expert's Work
“To love without knowing how to love wounds the person we love.” --Thich Nhat Hanh Last week, I quoted Erich Fromm who wrote an important...
What Is Hate?
Love and hate have a magical transforming power. They are the great soul changers. We grow their exercise into the likeness of what we...
5 Things Freud Said That Don't Sound Like Freud
It has been a more than 100 years since Sigmund Freud shocked the world with his ideas about dreams, sexuality, mental health, human...