Perfecting Patience
When we encounter situations that requires patience, can we look at it as an opportunity to be the person we already are?
When we encounter situations that requires patience, can we look at it as an opportunity to be the person we already are?
Jennifer Lehr | Posted 05.15.2012
You are the adult in the relationship and so it is up to you to calm yourself so that you don't take your anger (likely derived from fear) out on your kid.
Claire Bidwell Smith | Posted 05.10.2012
Only you know what path you need to take toward healing, and whether you accomplish this using every one of the five stages, shunning books about grief or never missing a session of your bereavement group, the key will consistently be to listen to yourself.
Shannon Cutts | Posted 05.03.2012
I have tried so hard to keep quiet in the recent spate of news headlines targeting the use of feeding tubes for pre-wedding diets, Lady Gaga's controv...
Laura Harvey | Posted 05.03.2012
We can gain vital information about ourselves and what we believe about the world when we look honestly at our anger. But when we react unconsciously, repress our anger or get caught up in it, it becomes counterproductive and negatively affects our health and relationships.
Agi Smith | Posted 04.26.2012
I can't seem to be able to move forward and stop blaming myself for marrying this man knowing he had serious issues and thereby not protecting my children.
Nancy Alvarez | Posted 04.24.2012
When I was a child, two things were most important to me: my girlfriends and creating a dance, a picture or a story to delight my soul. I don't know w...
MSNBC | Posted 04.18.2012
Got anger issues? Psychiatrist Gail Saltz appeared on "Today" to discuss some of the unhealthy ways people have learned to blow off steam, which can h...
John Shore | Posted 04.12.2012
I want to fight for this child, but there's nothing I can do because he's not my flesh and blood. How do I keep from hating his mother?
Gretchen Rubin | Posted 04.05.2012
We all have a few tricks for beating the blues -- things we do when we're feeling down. It turns out, however, that several popular strategies don't actually work very well in the long term.
Judith Johnson | Posted 05.28.2012
Over the past week, I have spent more than 15 hours on the phone with technical support for Apple, Time Warner Cable and Microsoft. I've spoken to about 30 different people in the U.S., India and the Philippines, and I have lost my mind on several occasions.
Ed and Deb Shapiro | Posted 05.27.2012
Anger can be an effective expression of passion for justice and fairness, for basic rightness, for what is appropriate and humane. But anger can also be like a single match that can burn an entire forest, causing tremendous damage and hurt, wars, greed and self-deception.
Posted 05.26.2012
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Kevin Hartnett | Posted 05.22.2012
Here's our rule: Our son has to play quietly by himself in his room until the alarm sounds, or else he has to go back into his crib. Stunningly, improbably, against all odds, it works. Here's why.
Terry Newell | Posted 05.20.2012
Living is choosing. Next time you face life's pressures and pains, choose to savor something in each of those moments.
Irene Tanner | Posted 05.19.2012
The purpose of having a muse is to receive inspiration for creative endeavors. So why shouldn't anyone not necessarily endowed with artistic genius be empowered by a personal muse as a natural component and companion to daily living?
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar | Posted 05.02.2012
Pull back your attention from the object of the senses to the senses, and then to the source of mind. This journey within will you give you the strength and endurance to go through all the ups and downs of life.
Mark Goulston, M.D. | Posted 04.17.2012
There is a saying that when you're a hammer the world looks like a nail. When you're a narcissist, the world looks like it should approve, adore, agree and obey you. Anything less than that feels like an assault and because of that a narcissist feels justified in raging back at it.
Margaret Paul, Ph.D. | Posted 04.09.2012
Why do we blame ourselves and others? What is the payoff?
Margaret Paul, Ph.D. | Posted 04.04.2012
How often do you tell yourself that you are wrong, bad, inadequate, unworthy, a jerk, stupid and so on? I've found, in the many years I've been counseling, that most people are frequently inwardly judgmental.
Irene Tanner | Posted 03.24.2012
Is it possible that unconsidered everyday speech contains self-fulfilling prophesies?
Margaret Paul, Ph.D. | Posted 03.11.2012
Relationships are fertile ground for learning about ourselves -- about our unloving behavior that creates the very disconnection we don't want, and about the loving behavior that brings aliveness, joy and passion to our relationship.
Marie Hartwell-Walker, Ed.D. | Posted 03.07.2012
Why not use this time of new beginnings to resolve to flip the anger switch to "off" and to get on with your own life; to stop giving the ex the satisfaction of knowing you can still be turned inside out by the same ol', same 'ol routines?
Margaret Paul, Ph.D. | Posted 02.08.2012
No matter how much time or how many material things you give to your children, if your presence with them is tense instead of joyful and peaceful, they will not be getting what they need from you.
Tsoknyi Rinpoche | Posted 05.23.2012