Meaningful You

Human activity has three dimensions: thought, feeling, and action. The implication of “Just Do It” is that thought and feeling are to be ignored in favor of action. The Nike revolution deletes two of the three spheres of human experience, and judging from shoes sales, little is so irresistible to Americans. Read More

Many single parents who are gun shy after divorce go in one of two directions: they convince themselves they are better off only dipping a toe in dating, or they deny and minimize their fears, which can lead to a reckless plunge. Here's how to avoid these extremes. Read More

Chad Pennington asks, "How can you truly know what success is, if you’ve never experienced failure?" This post shows how to encourage positive failure on the path to success. Read More

Because so often many of our “friends” rarely if ever come face to face with us or even converse with us verbally, we can craft an idealized image and present it to the world as complete reality. We post ourselves, smiling and engaged, using only the best, most flattering photographs, crafting an idealized image and presenting it to the world as a complete reality. Read More

Though no one category fits all, in my psychotherapy practice I notice a strong correlation between folks with chronic anger management problems and those who exhibit self-defeating personality traits. Own these traits to defeat anger. Read More

Three years ago, at age 96, my mother stated that her loneliness was unbearable and her meaningful connections were gone. Here is how she lived with my husband and me in a NYC apartment for a resplendent three years. Read More

It was hate at first sight. Not only did my office in an upscale neighborhood offend John’s radical Marxist politics, but my leather shoes violated his belief in animal rights, and my use of lipstick piqued his feminist sensibility. And the therapeutic relationship got worse from there. Read More

Listening as an act of rebellion or respect—and how to accomplish each. Read More

Once the dust settles after trauma or a major life event (such as having your first child), many clients have come into my office with increased energy, irratability and desire to do something, but all of their old somethings don't seem to work for them anymore. Read More

This blog curates the voices of the Division of Psychoanalysis(39) of the American Psychological Association. New Jersey psychotherapist, Mitchell Milch, LCSW (www.healthymindsets.com) submits this post.

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As the balmy days of spring begin their evolution into the heat of summer, as children across the country say goodbye to their classrooms and hello to the freedom of the outdoors, it is perhaps a good time to think about transition. Read More

Meditation is quality control in the manner of a chef’s cooking techniques – consistently practiced, it allows a constant quality of “dishes.” Read More

Before the publication of “Where the Wild Things Are” in 1963, children’s literature was comprised largely of folk tales, fairy tales and near-Victorian tales of good little children whose job was to please their elders – or else. These stories were morality tales meant to teach children the lessons of how to behave in an adult world. Read More

His daughter’s death had not been unexpected. She had had advanced liver disease, the consequence, Willy had acknowledged ruefully many times, of a life of promiscuity and drug-abuse. Of her death and his inability to mourn her, Willy said with a kind of shrug, “I lost my daughter many years ago.” Read More