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Family Dynamics

The ABC-X of Christmas: A Keller Christmas Vacation

Jessica Troilo Ph.D. on November 14, 2025 in It's All About the Dads

Explore family dynamics through the holidays—how secrets, stress, and relationships shape resilience and connection, inspired by A Keller Christmas Vacation.

Explore family dynamics through the holidays—how secrets, stress, and relationships shape resilience and connection, inspired by A Keller Christmas Vacation.

Habit Formation

How to Become More Self-Disciplined by Thinking Like a Pilot

Alice Boyes Ph.D. on November 14, 2025 in In Practice

Borrow the best thinking from pilots to level up your routines.

Borrow the best thinking from pilots to level up your routines.

Adolescence

Managing Parental Fears When Rearing an Adolescent

Carl E Pickhardt Ph.D. on November 14, 2025 in Surviving (Your Child's) Adolescence

Because an adolescent pushes for more worldly exposures and experiences to grow, a teenager has more dangers to beware than a child.

Because an adolescent pushes for more worldly exposures and experiences to grow, a teenager has more dangers to beware than a child.

Relationships

We’re Listening: But What Do We Hear?

Krystine I. Batcho Ph.D. on November 14, 2025 in Longing for Nostalgia

Greater reliance on social media and virtual reality has contributed to an expansion of preferences for audio experiences. Has the quality of listening kept up?

Greater reliance on social media and virtual reality has contributed to an expansion of preferences for audio experiences. Has the quality of listening kept up?

Emotion Regulation

Happy Birthday, Goldie: The Resonance of a Joyful Mind 

Sara Leila Sherman, M.M., and Morton Sherman Ph.D. on November 14, 2025 in Resonant Minds

Goldie Hawn’s laughter changed Hollywood—and her compassion changed the world. On her birthday, we celebrate her joyful mind, mindful heart, and the music that connects them.

Goldie Hawn’s laughter changed Hollywood—and her compassion changed the world. On her birthday, we celebrate her joyful mind, mindful heart, and the music that connects them.

Friends

The Midlife Friendship Gap

Rachel Needle Psy.D. on November 14, 2025 in Mental and Sexual Health

Feeling lonelier in your 40s or 50s? You’re not alone. Discover why midlife friendships matter more than ever—and how to rebuild meaningful connection.

Feeling lonelier in your 40s or 50s? You’re not alone. Discover why midlife friendships matter more than ever—and how to rebuild meaningful connection.

Child Development

The Risks of AI and Social Media for the Developing Brain

Ran D. Anbar M.D. on November 14, 2025 in Understanding Hypnosis

Based on available evidence, AI and social media use with children and teens should be minimized until we develop a better understanding of their impact on the developing brain.

Based on available evidence, AI and social media use with children and teens should be minimized until we develop a better understanding of their impact on the developing brain.

Therapy

What Carl Rogers Meant When He Said the Client Knows Best

Stephen Joseph Ph.D. on November 14, 2025 in What Doesn't Kill Us

Person-centered therapy is a deliberate approach involving close attention to the client’s moment-to-moment process with a deep trust in their ability to find their own direction.

Person-centered therapy is a deliberate approach involving close attention to the client’s moment-to-moment process with a deep trust in their ability to find their own direction.

Evolutionary Psychology

Do Not Call Today’s Authoritarian Bullies “Wolves”

Scott G. Eberle Ph.D. on November 14, 2025 in Play in Mind

Your soft, merry prankster, your best canine friend who gives you unconditional love, is a wolf at heart.

Your soft, merry prankster, your best canine friend who gives you unconditional love, is a wolf at heart.

Authenticity

The Adulthood Dilemma of Staying True to Yourself

Aigerim Alpysbekova MPH on November 14, 2025 in Trauma, Growth, and the Search for Meaning

Personal Perspective: Sometimes the quiet we create to keep others comfortable costs us our own truth. This is what it takes to find yourself again without walking away from love.

Personal Perspective: Sometimes the quiet we create to keep others comfortable costs us our own truth. This is what it takes to find yourself again without walking away from love.

Awe

Why Are We Drawn to Art?

Zorana Ivcevic Pringle Ph.D. on November 14, 2025 in Creativity: The Art and Science

Latest research shows the transformative power of art, from surprise and insight to a sense of awe.

Latest research shows the transformative power of art, from surprise and insight to a sense of awe.

Relationships

How Empathy in Love Relationships Misleads Us

Steven Stosny, Ph.D. on November 14, 2025 in Anger in the Age of Entitlement

Higher-order compassion is sympathy for vulnerabilities and hardships we do not share (or even grasp) but very much want to alleviate.

Higher-order compassion is sympathy for vulnerabilities and hardships we do not share (or even grasp) but very much want to alleviate.

Attention

Brain Cleaning in Progress...

Hal McDonald Ph.D. on November 14, 2025 in Time Travelling with Apollo

After a late night of work or play, our brains take advantage of lapses in attention to flush out harmful waste that it typically takes care of while we sleep.

After a late night of work or play, our brains take advantage of lapses in attention to flush out harmful waste that it typically takes care of while we sleep.

Habit Formation

3 Ways to Make Good Habits That Actually Last

Mark Travers Ph.D. on November 14, 2025 in Social Instincts

Here are the most important steps to take if you want a good habit to stick.

Here are the most important steps to take if you want a good habit to stick.

Sex

Feel Satisfied Not Stuffed: Manage Holiday Stress and Desire

Sari Cooper, CST, LCSW on November 14, 2025 in Sex Esteem

Feeling “stuffed” instead of satisfied this holiday season? Learn how stress, disrupted sleep, and body image affect sexual desire and how to restore balance and connection.

Feeling “stuffed” instead of satisfied this holiday season? Learn how stress, disrupted sleep, and body image affect sexual desire and how to restore balance and connection.

Artificial Intelligence

When Tech Listens: How AI Can Actually Support Our Youth

Breanna Gentile Ph.D. on November 13, 2025 in Supporting Resilient Kids

AI is becoming a quiet guide for today’s youth. This piece explores how to design technology that supports their emotional safety, autonomy, and dignity.

AI is becoming a quiet guide for today’s youth. This piece explores how to design technology that supports their emotional safety, autonomy, and dignity.

Attachment

4 Myths About Attachment Styles

Katherine Cullen MFA, LCSW on November 13, 2025 in The Truth About Exercise Addiction

A plethora of misconceptions about attachment and attachment styles abound on social media. Here, four of the most common, debunked.

A plethora of misconceptions about attachment and attachment styles abound on social media. Here, four of the most common, debunked.

Creativity

The Myth of Creative Blocks: When Inspiration Disappears

David V. Andreone MA, AMFT on November 13, 2025 in Being Your Highest Functioning Creative Self

Discover why “creative blocks” aren’t real—and how understanding what’s truly behind them can unlock deeper, more powerful creativity than you’ve ever accessed.

Discover why “creative blocks” aren’t real—and how understanding what’s truly behind them can unlock deeper, more powerful creativity than you’ve ever accessed.

Stress

Can Reading Fiction Actually Make You Happier?

Gina Simmons Schneider Ph.D. on November 13, 2025 in Frazzlebrain

Literary fiction has been shown to increase empathy, reduce stress, and improve well-being. Literary fiction, in contrast with popular and nonfiction, offers unique benefits.

Literary fiction has been shown to increase empathy, reduce stress, and improve well-being. Literary fiction, in contrast with popular and nonfiction, offers unique benefits.

Wisdom

Be Ruthlessly Selfish: It’s a Wise Habit

Diana Hill, Ph.D. on November 13, 2025 in From Striving to Thriving

Learn how being a little “selfish” can actually make you more centered, energized, and generous with the people and work you care about most.

Learn how being a little “selfish” can actually make you more centered, energized, and generous with the people and work you care about most.

Adoption

Is Adoption for You?

Jeanette Yoffe M.A., LMFT on November 13, 2025 in The Inner Life of Foster Care

Before you adopt, ask yourself these 10 essential questions. Adoption is not about saving a child, it’s about joining their story with humility, curiosity, and love.

Before you adopt, ask yourself these 10 essential questions. Adoption is not about saving a child, it’s about joining their story with humility, curiosity, and love.

Social Media

User Beware: Scam Culture in a Digital Age

Azadeh Aalai Ph.D. on November 13, 2025 in The First Impression

Learn how the same mechanisms that allow online scammers to exploit users for profit also underlie troubling threats like extremism, conspiracy thinking, and radicalization.

Learn how the same mechanisms that allow online scammers to exploit users for profit also underlie troubling threats like extremism, conspiracy thinking, and radicalization.

Leadership

How to Pitch New Ideas Using Psychology

Soren Kaplan Ph.D. on November 13, 2025 in The Power of Experience

Want your business pitch to actually land? Learn how to tap into the psychology of attention, emotion, and belief to make your ideas stick and inspire others to act.

Want your business pitch to actually land? Learn how to tap into the psychology of attention, emotion, and belief to make your ideas stick and inspire others to act.

Leadership

How Managers Can Keep Hybrid Teams Connected and Resilient

Ed Thompson on November 13, 2025 in A Hidden Force

Hybrid work can amplify thinking differences but managers can build the clarity and connection teams need to thrive.

Hybrid work can amplify thinking differences but managers can build the clarity and connection teams need to thrive.

Leadership

How to Unhurry for a Meaningful Decade

Nathan D Iverson Ph.D. on November 13, 2025 in The Evolving Workforce

Personal Perspective: Pain taught me to slow down, but choosing pages over pixels, focusing on one real task, and taking tiny pauses restored attention and a decade-long view.

Personal Perspective: Pain taught me to slow down, but choosing pages over pixels, focusing on one real task, and taking tiny pauses restored attention and a decade-long view.

Intelligence

Being a Gifted, High-IQ Person in a Non-Gifted Family

Imi Lo MA on November 13, 2025 in Living with Emotional Intensity

When your mind moves faster than those of everyone around you, even love can feel like oppression.

When your mind moves faster than those of everyone around you, even love can feel like oppression.

Sex

The Quiet Shock of Erotic Grief

Claudia Six Ph.D. on November 13, 2025 in It's Never About Sex

Erotic grief is the quiet heartbreak of changing desire. It’s often not the end of intimacy but its evolution: slower, deeper, and rooted in tenderness and truth.

Erotic grief is the quiet heartbreak of changing desire. It’s often not the end of intimacy but its evolution: slower, deeper, and rooted in tenderness and truth.

Relationships

How We Judge People Instead of Building Connection

Kristie Wood Ph.D. on November 13, 2025 in Connection and Coping

From dating to marriage, we’ve learned to judge instead of relate. We think discernment protects us, but constant evaluation may be the real red flag in modern love.

From dating to marriage, we’ve learned to judge instead of relate. We think discernment protects us, but constant evaluation may be the real red flag in modern love.

Leadership

When Striving to Impress Stops You From Moving

Laura Berger on November 13, 2025 in Radical Sabbatical

When striving to do our best becomes endless, excellence turns to exhaustion. Redefining "best" can restore balance, trust, and genuine progress.

When striving to do our best becomes endless, excellence turns to exhaustion. Redefining "best" can restore balance, trust, and genuine progress.