Embracing the Dark Side

Breakups raise primal negative feelings: guilt, sadness, anger, and fear. When people try to manage these bad emotions, they try to figure out what caused them, and often - erroneously - they blame themselves or their partner. Read More

Junk mail. I love to hate it. Responsible for the harvesting of lots of trees each year and the contribution of lots of junk to our landfills, it's a hazard to the nation's environmental health. It's also a hazard to our collective mental health. With traffic jams, computer glitches, and other daily hassles, we have enough daily stressors to keep us on our toes. Read More

Depressed people can be acutely hopeless and hard to console, making friendships difficult. Below are some of my thoughts about what friends can do for a depressed person and how friends can maintain appropriate friendship boundaries with the depressed person in their lives.  Read More

A single woman in her mid to late thirties has always cherished the goals of being a wife and mother. Her first date in ten years virtually stopped communicating with her, but sent her a valentines card, which brought her renewed pain, but also hope. Read More