Are You Happy With Who You Are?
What does it mean to love ourselves? In many ways, it is a worn out expression. It has come to be like background noise…something that is...
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...
Seven Words For Love
“Thus, the ultimate choice for a man [woman], in as much as he is driven to transcend himself, is to create or to destroy, to love or to...
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...
Learning New Tricks
They say old dogs cannot learn new tricks. Not true. Coco is learning new tricks in a new life. Coco was a terrified homeless dog who...
A Road Map to Dealing With Depression: Our Internal Messages
Have you ever wondered why one criticism or piece of feedback will wipe out ten compliments? Are you confused about feeling down and...
Anger or Depression?
Alex tells his story. “As a teenager I was considered difficult. Anger was my constant companion. I would be angry when my parents told...