Karen Salmansohn

Have you recently been through a challenge, disappointment, break up or disloyalty with somebody in your life? If so, it's important after you've been hurt, to take some time to think like a lion tamer about your pain, so you can tame the possibility of more negativity coming back to...

What you presently know to be true about wrongful conviction cases might not be the whole truth.

For example, did you know that witnesses involved in gang related crimes can start off implicating fellow gang members to police officers -- even testifying before a grand jury about them. However,...

Psychologists say a single trauma will strike you twice. Once in reality (the ordeal itself) and once in your mind, when you think about it and talk about it with others. Although there's nothing you can do about a bad situation once it has happened, you can be mindful of...

Babies laugh more than 300 times a day. We adults, in contrast, laugh less than 20 times a day. (And I'm guessing even less so on Mondays!)

There are actually some reasons that babies' brains are set up to find the world so amusing and fun. Indeed, because of how...

True story: Lately I have been finding myself cutting down on the massive amounts of coffee I love to drink, not for health reasons, but for time management reasons. These days, I often go from one conference call to another, then head from one meeting to another, to writing one...

As you might know, dating sites all have an option: "separated." Sometimes the person can even type in the words "divorce pending." Should dating sites allow people who are "separated - divorce pending" to date? Should you get involved with someone who tells you that they're "separated - divorce pending"?

Feel like the world has taken it out of you? If so, give back to the world.

Yes, sometimes you have to step outside of yourself to remove yourself from your dark mood. And that's not just my opinion, it's a researched opinion of positive psychology expert, Martin Seligman....

I never would have guessed my happy engagement to Mitchell Leff would ever wind up as a salacious news story in a few newspapers including The New York Post and The New York Daily News. Then again, if you've read my story, you know there's a...

Feeling challenged, stressed, depressed, anxious, miffed, pissed off, pissed on - and as if you and you alone are being singled out by the fates to suffer?

I'm here to encourage you to stop thinking about what's wrong in your life, and refocus on creating more right!

Thankfully, there...

Nobody's exempt from pain. Not even self-help book authors! In my book, THE BOUNCE BACK BOOK, I confess how within one year, so many bad occurrences happened, I kept waiting for a Candid Camera crew to appear from behind the planter in my living room!

First, the...

Lust, love and like. A healthful, happy love relationship serves up three out of three. A healthful, happy love relationship is a passionate best friendship.

Many women think men only care about the lust angle--finding a hot bod for hot sex. Unfortunately, there are many men who do only...

A famous research study was once done on a clique of young goldfish, who were raised in a luxuriously long aquarium with a pesky glass wall smack down its middle.

Every time these goldfish tried to swim to the far side of the aquarium - ouch -- they'd hit...

Note: The following is adapted from the Deepak-Chopra-touted-Jon-Stewart-humor-approved-new-love-boosting-book Prince Harming Syndrome -- which you can check out more here.

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Want to be happier in love? Want to attract better partners? Follow Aristotle's big secret to a happier life: Do actions you are proud of!

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NOTE: The following is an adapted excerpt from best selling author Karen Salmansohn's newest book Prince Harming Syndrome -- which gives a modern twist to Aristotle's happiness philosophies by merging them with cognitive psychology, brain science, and energy theories from quantum physics - all delivered with feisty humor. (Hence...

Once upon a time I used to suffer from what I call Prince Harming Syndrome -- the tendency to date men who were either Trouble or TroubleD.

I remember once I was sharing a dark story about a particular Prince Harming with my buddy Scott, when the man at...

Fighting with your sweetie? If so -- are you fighting fairly -- or are you being a jerk when tensions rise high? Everyone of us has a little streak of asshole - hopefully only a slight wedgie streak of asshole. In my new book PRINCE HARMING SYNDROME http://www.amazon.com/Prince-Harming-Syndrome-Relationship-Essentials/dp/084370926X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1250627704&sr=8-1 I give...

Recently during a big apartment move, I re-discovered an old beloved Aristotle book, and started flipping through. I was surprised to see much of what Aristotle had to say about love hit home bigtime -- in particular about a sexy, smart, funny, rich, lying, cheating don't-get-me-started "Prince Harming" ex-boyfriend (...as...

There's a famous expression: "It only hurts when I laugh."

I'm a believer it should be rewritten: "It only hurts when I can't laugh."

For me laughter is the best therapy for difficult times. Laughter lightens up my emotional load-then swoops in as "enlightenment aid"-- helping me to see ways...

Do you like money? If you do, it helps if you also like the people you work alongside with to help make you some of that likeable money!

Tom Rath, longtime Gallup researcher and author of Vital Friends: The People You Can't Afford To Live Without, offers some fascinating data...

We humans have no trouble doing stupid things. But we do have trouble seeing the stupid things we do - even if they're smack in front of our nose -- or worst, smack ON our nose -- which is why we need to gather input from others.

For example: If...