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Three Ways to Use Play To Get Kids to Behave

By Susan Heitler, Ph.D. on February 10, 2012 in Resolution, Not Conflict

Parenting, someone once said, is the art of getting kids to do what you want them to do, and getting them to stop doing things you don't want them to do. These three ways of playing can fill your basket of parenting tricks with potent fun strategies. Read More

50 Quotes on Greed

By Dr. Stephanie Sarkis, Ph.D. on February 10, 2012 in Here, There, and Everywhere

Greed. Avarice. Lust. Want. Covetousness. It goes by many names, and it has many quotes. Read More

The Legacy of Distorted Love: Post-Romantic Stress

By Karyl McBride, Ph.D. on February 10, 2012 in The Legacy of Distorted Love

What did you learn about love in childhood? Read More

Avoid Pain, Maximize Success: Listen to and Follow Your Instincts

By Dr. Susan Biali, M.D. on February 10, 2012 in Prescriptions for Life

Have you kicked yourself in the past for not following your instincts? Why is it so hard to do, and how can you avoid similar mistakes in the future? Wellness expert and life coach Dr. Susan Biali, M.D., explains how you can learn to listen to your instincts, as well as the situations where learning to use this skill is most critical. Read More

Trauma's Rocky Road to Recovery

By Stephen Joseph, Ph.D. on February 10, 2012 in What Doesn't Kill Us

Is it true that for psychotherapy to work you have to get worse before you get better? Or is this nothing more than dangerous and misguided thinking? Read More

I’ll Be Happy When...

By Mel Schwartz, L.C.S.W. Mphil on February 9, 2012 in A Shift of Mind

What is the source of happiness? We tend to assume that happiness will come from a future event. It typically depends upon something else happening. Read More

Love Is ...

By Martha Peaslee Levine, M.D. on February 9, 2012 in Your Write to Health

Love is more than roses ... it is respect. Read More

Who Needs a Pill for Sadness?

By Kathy Seifert, Ph.D. on February 9, 2012 in Stop The Cycle

There’s a huge market for easy cures that make people feel better right away. But when is sadness a normal feeling that we should experience and when does it become an illness that may require additional treatment? Read More

What Do All People Have in Common?

By Robert Biswas-Diener on February 9, 2012 in Significant Results

This Saturday—February 11,2012—is called "World Happy Day." In part, this global event is related to the launch of a new documentary called Happy, directed by Academy Award nominee Roko Belic (Genghis Blues). Read More

Gain From the Pain

By Helen Adrienne, L.C.S.W. on February 9, 2012 in On Fertile Ground

Find the bless in the infertility mess. Learn to grow from this challenge. Read More

How Fun Is Your Workplace?

By Gretchen Rubin on February 9, 2012 in The Happiness Project

In "The Levity Effect: Why it Pays to Lighten Up," Adrian Gostick and Scott Christopher make an interesting argument that “levity” is an extremely effective tool for helping people to work better. An atmosphere of light-heartedness, it turns out, helps people pay attention, eases tensions, and enhances a feeling of connection. Read More

Do You Have the "Quality of Keeping People Together"?

By Gretchen Rubin on February 9, 2012 in The Happiness Project

The "quality of keeping people together" seems an important and rare attribute, and although it doesn't come naturally to me, I'm trying to do a better job of it myself, and also to appreciate more the work of the Apollinaire-ish types whose efforts benefit me. Read More

Sex and Heart Health: Treadmill or Titillation?

By Melody T. McCloud, M.D. on February 9, 2012 in Black Women's Health and Happiness

Valentine's Day is coming, but you don't have to wait until then to get your heart pumping and burn some calories; and would you rather be on a treadmill, or engage in hour-long titillation? Read More

The Surprising Secret to Success—Be Kind to Yourself

By Melanie A. Greenberg, Ph.D. on February 8, 2012 in The Mindful Self-Express

If we lack connection in the external world, we have the ability to create it in our internal worlds through compassionate practices, and thereby reap some of the health and psychological benefits. Read More

JFK’s Young Intern Lover Reveals Long-held Secrets; Would You?

By Melody T. McCloud, M.D. on February 8, 2012 in Black Women's Health and Happiness

Would you ever write a tell-all memoir? If so, why? Would it be to free yourself of the journey's twists and turns and what effect it had on your life? Would it be to do the big reveal–to finally explain to others some "whys" of situation and reactions gone by? Is it to brag? Is it ...[what]? Read More

13 Lessons for Aging Well—Lesson 3

By Meika Loe on February 8, 2012 in Aging Our Way

The generation that came of age during the Great Depression learned how to live in moderation, and some are still practicing this ethic today. Read More

Two Models of Coaching/ Counseling

By Steven Reiss, Ph.D. on February 8, 2012 in Who We Are

The dominant model for helping people is to change them to be more like a one-size fits all standard for quality of life, as if everyone equally desired to be successful with an active social life. I advocate a new variant of the "Good fit" model that evaluates who a client is, and then finds life situations where the person can thrive without being changed. Read More

Quit: Do It Now

By Heidi Grant Halvorson, Ph.D. on February 8, 2012 in The Science of Success

A lot of us suffer from not knowing when, or how, to quit. We take on too many projects and commitments, and end up turning in 10 mediocre jobs instead of one or two stellar performances. Read More

Food Suddenly Feels Perilous, Here's Comfort for Those With Allergies and Intolerances

By Wednesday Martin, Ph.D. on February 8, 2012 in Stepmonster

Six million kids have food allergies–40 percent of them life-threatening–and one in 133 Americans has a diagnosis of celiac disease. Millions more have wheat allergies or gluten intolerance. Now what? Read More

Our Valued Space

By Joe Navarro, M.A. on February 8, 2012 in Spycatcher

If I ask an audience if someone has ever had their space violated, invariably all the hands go up. Some hands go up rather dramatically perhaps signifying how offended they were or perhaps that they are especially sensitive to spatial violations. We have all had this happen to us whether in an elevator, at the grocery checkout, or perhaps while talking to people at work. Read More

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