29: The Story of Your Anger
Anger is often maligned as "negative" and "destructive," looked at as morally suspect and commonly sought to be removed from the lives of those coming in for therapy. Exploring these stories, we can c...
15 Heinä 201918min
28: The Mighty Anecdote
Exploring the nature of 'anecdotal evidence,' why it's so enticing and why we all engage in it. Connection made with bias and why bias doesn't mean there's something wrong with our rationality or our ...
24 Huhti 201925min
27: Setting Goals within Your Values
Setting goals too often leads us into shame and self-doubt. I want to encourage you to possibly stop goal-setting for a moment and focus on what you care about. Start livable goals from a place of wha...
22 Maalis 201925min
26: Change Is As Fundamental As Gravity
The pursuit of change is as varied as New Year's Resolutions and almost always focused on what we consciously are doing. Looking at change as a foundational law of life can help us on our journey's of...
12 Maalis 201920min
25: Feelings and the Hope of Relationship
What is happening when we have "feelings" about someone? What should we do about them? Do they require anything of us or of the other person? These questions do not have to generate the angst they so ...
27 Elo 201824min
24: A Replication Problem
Exploring the so-called "replication problem" in psychological research, in particular focusing on "the Marshmallow Test." Looking at issues about replication, definition and the nature of complexity ...
11 Heinä 201820min
23: Stop Hiding Behind Labels
The struggle between the individualistic and collectivist pressures of our humanity, as seen through reading C.G. Jung's "The Undiscovered Self" and how the subsuming of a whole person to one or anoth...
20 Kesä 201716min
21: Self-Control and the Judgment of Our Future Self
Exploring the nature of self-control, the connection it has to empathy and the picture we have of our ideal self. Reading from The Atlantic article "Self-Control is Just Empathy with Your Future Self"...
8 Kesä 201727min
