Superstition: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

Superstition has been speculated to exist along the same continuum as OCD.

Superstition has been speculated to exist along the same continuum as OCD.

How to Avoid Experiential Avoidance

Chasing the good and not the bad seems to be a more productive pathway to mental and physical health.

Chasing the good and not the bad seems to be a more productive pathway to mental and physical health.

So, Who Are You?‎

Asking an immigrant “Who are you?” tells you about the person's story, and opens pathways for genuine ‎connections.‎

Asking an immigrant “Who are you?” tells you about the person's story, and opens pathways for genuine ‎connections.‎

The Pleasure Paradox

The paradox of pleasure is that positive and negative perspectives of pleasure are an undeniable and existential given.

The paradox of pleasure is that positive and negative perspectives of pleasure are an undeniable and existential given.

Dysregulating the Dysregulator

Some dysregulated people use others to regulate themselves. That is okay until the method of regulating involves making another person miserable. Let's take a closer look.

Some dysregulated people use others to regulate themselves. That is okay until the method of regulating involves making another person miserable. Let's take a closer look.

The Emotional Turmoil of Applying for Canadian Residency

A Personal Perspective: The long wait and uncertainty when applying for Canadian residency can cause emotional turmoil, negatively affecting mental health.

A Personal Perspective: The long wait and uncertainty when applying for Canadian residency can cause emotional turmoil, negatively affecting mental health.

People Who've Experienced Trafficking Are Heroes

There's no inherent reason why individuals who have experienced trafficking can't become everything they desire.

There's no inherent reason why individuals who have experienced trafficking can't become everything they desire.

Child Refugees Struggle With Mental Health

At 96, my mother still struggles with traumas from her childhood immigration journey as an unaccompanied minor. The Ukrainian child refugees likely will have the same struggles.

At 96, my mother still struggles with traumas from her childhood immigration journey as an unaccompanied minor. The Ukrainian child refugees likely will have the same struggles.

There Are Good Reasons to Express Anger in Polite Society

Personal Perspective: Is expressing or even acknowledging anger still mostly taboo? Since we have evolved psychologically and know so much more about healing, should we not reconsider?

Personal Perspective: Is expressing or even acknowledging anger still mostly taboo? Since we have evolved psychologically and know so much more about healing, should we not reconsider?

Letting Your Kindness Shine Through

The key is that we must make the decision every day to believe that unkindness is a poison that we don’t want to drink or pass on to anyone else.

The key is that we must make the decision every day to believe that unkindness is a poison that we don’t want to drink or pass on to anyone else.

Blaming the Pandemic for Relationship Stress Is Helping Couples

Researchers examined whether the buffering effect of couples blaming the pandemic for their woes would remain successful in fending off toxic relationship dynamics.

Researchers examined whether the buffering effect of couples blaming the pandemic for their woes would remain successful in fending off toxic relationship dynamics.

Hoard, Collection, or Archive: Which Do You Have, and Why?

You heart is your archive. You mind is your collection. Your soul is your lost-and-found. Make an inventory.

You heart is your archive. You mind is your collection. Your soul is your lost-and-found. Make an inventory.

How Therapists Should Show Up

What do we do with such polarized views on conflicts in the East?

What do we do with such polarized views on conflicts in the East?

Why Erik Erikson's Psychosocial Theory Is Not Quite Right

Without ascribing justice as a central virtue to his psychosocial stages, Erikson omitted perhaps the key variable for harmonious relations in families and in communities.

Without ascribing justice as a central virtue to his psychosocial stages, Erikson omitted perhaps the key variable for harmonious relations in families and in communities.

The Displacement of Native Culture and Identity

The Indian Act and the exclusion of cultural identity status.

The Indian Act and the exclusion of cultural identity status.

When Anger From Coronavirus is Displaced

During the coronavirus pandemic, we may feel angry while grieving. We need to be mindful of when we direct it at people or situations with a force that may not be warranted.

During the coronavirus pandemic, we may feel angry while grieving. We need to be mindful of when we direct it at people or situations with a force that may not be warranted.

Self-Deception Part 5: Displacement

The fifth installment in a new 10-part series on ego defenses.

The fifth installment in a new 10-part series on ego defenses.

Of all of the possible experiences people endure when they are abandoned in love, rejection is probably the most painful.