Writing a New Story
Each of us have familiar and automatic beliefs and reactions that have been with us before we had conscious memory. They tell us how to...
Emotional Contagion And Physical Proximity
Last week, we started putting words to a concept that makes inherent sense: the idea that emotions are contagious. We talked about how...
Emotional Contagion
Last week, I stumbled onto a magazine in a waiting room that gave me an “A-ha!” moment. The article helped me crystallize a concept...
Name Those Parts
“Resolution of painful past events cannot truly be achieved without our reclaiming the lost child and disowned parts of ourselves”...
Spaghetti, Anyone? The Intertwined Workings of All Our Parts
No matter how fast we can think or how on top of a situation we think we are, our unconscious mind is always a few steps ahead of us. ...
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...