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November 2, 2022
Existential Perfectionism and Regret
June 9, 2022
How to Handle Regret and Disappointment
June 7, 2022
Is Regret Ever Useful?
April 19, 2021
Building Motivation to Overcome Depression
April 14, 2021
How to Overcome Your Perfectionism
April 12, 2021
How to Overcome Hopelessness
March 24, 2021
How to Defeat Your Self-Criticism: Overcoming Depression
March 16th, 2020
How Low Self-Esteem Can Make Depression Worse
April 16th, 2020
Why People Do Not Comply with Pandemic Guidelines
March 27th, 2020
7 Tips for Handling Isolation During the Pandemic
March 21st 2020
The Zen Warrior Meets the Pandemic
March 20th, 2020
Depressive Thinking During the Coronavirus Pandemic
March 18th, 2020
Staying Home During the Pandemic
March 10th, 2020
Are You Worried About the Coronavirus?
March 3rd, 2020
Coronavirus Anxiety
February 10, 2020
What It’s Like to Feel Jealous
September 15th, 2019:
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Romantic Jealousy
September 10th, 2019:
How to Defeat Your Self-Criticism
September 3rd, 2019:
Will You Get That Paper Done on Time?
August 12th, 2019:
>How Your Thinking Is Biased Toward the Negative
March 11th, 2019:
Seven Steps to Reduce Your Stress at Work
February 8th, 2019:
Overcoming Retrospective Jealousy
December 12th, 2018:
Talking Politics During the Holidays
August 1st, 2018:
Are You Blowing Things Up in Your Head? Four Techniques to Gain Better Perspective
July 30th, 2018:
Have We Lost Perspective: Is the world really that bad off?
April 30th, 2018:
Getting Past the Past Jealousy
April 23rd, 2018:
How Your Jealousy Drives Your Partner Away
April 12th, 2018:
Envy: Why It Doesn’t Feel Good When Someone Else Succeeds
April 3rd, 2018:
What If Your Partner Is Jealous?
February 28th, 2018:
Are Your Rule-Books Making You More Jealous?
February 13th, 2018:
Is Jealousy a Sign that You are Neurotic?
February 12th, 2018:
Is Jealousy Hijacking Your Relationship?
February 6th, 2018:
Ten Steps to Freeing Yourself from Worry
October 30th, 2017:
Are You Your Own Worst Enemy? Part II
October 3rd, 2017:
Are You Your Own Worst Enemy?
September 25th, 2017:
Complaining: Are You Sounding Like A Downer?
June 12th, 2017:
Ten Steps to Overcoming the Need for Approval
May 22nd, 2017:
Management Styles: Are You Stuck in a Losing Style of Managing People?
April 11, 2017 :
Listening to Patients
March 17, 2017 :
Living with Uncertainty: “Yeah, But I Could Be The One!!!”
March 15, 2017 :
Successful Imperfection
March 08, 2017 :
Constructive Discomfort; How to do what you don’t want to do.
February 27th, 2017:
Putting Things in Perspective; Five Easy Steps to Reducing Daily Stress
February 9th, 2017:
Living With Loneliness
May 4th, 2016:
The Decline of Trust
May 4th, 2016:
The Anxiety Rule Book: How to Guarantee That You Will Be Anxious and Stay Anxious
May 2nd, 2016:
The Gift of Fear; How Evolution Protected Us By Making Us Afraid
November 7th, 2015:
Coping with Your Envy: Turning Envy on Its Head
November 6th, 2015:
How to Get a Handle on Your Worries: Simple Tips for Coping with Worry
October 28th, 2015:
Envy: Why We Can’t Stand it When Other People Succeed
August 12th, 2015:
Why Trump Appeals to People
January 10th, 2015:
How to Think About Terrorism
October 21st, 2014:
How Panic Spreads with Fears of Ebola
October 15th, 2014:
Social Anxiety: What Will People Think
September 24th, 2014
Letting Go of Sunk Costs:How to Escape the Past
September 10, 2014
How to Put Down that Self-Critic
April 7, 2014
Are You Afraid of Your Thoughts?
December 16, 2013
Realistic New Year’s Resolutions
November 27, 2013
Every Day Is Thanksgiving
October 9, 2013
Feeling Ashamed of Being Unemployed
October 7, 2013
The Forgotten American: The Sad Story of the Unemployed
February 4, 2013
You Are Not Your Job
December 19, 2012
Massacre for the Media