What is cheating? In my over 40 years of practicing family law, I have seen just about every reason under the sun for a divorce.
It has been almost two weeks since Lindsay Lohan appeared on The Late Show With David Letterman and, even with last week's horrific events in Boston, ...
Why would someone make the choice to be miserable? Because it is often a way of getting attention and of attempting to get someone else to be responsible for them. If this is what you want, here is a roadmap to make sure you accomplish your goal!
Do you dream in tweets? On Friday, March 1, @HealthyLiving and @GPSforSoul hosted a Twitter chat to explore our growing addiction to social media ...
About a year before my father died, our family staged a by-the-book intervention to try to get him to stop abusing Valium. While we ultimately failed ...
Inner emptiness does not come from a lack of something external -- not even a lack of being loved by someone else. It comes from a lack of one thing only: a lack of awareness of the love that is the energy we live in.
For some time now, I've been developing the idea and practice of what I've called "inventing a therapy." The point has been, to my mind, that much of ...
Earlier this year, a study found that social media is more addicting than alcohol and cigarettes.
Over 20 years ago, I gave up something that ran my life. Some people might call it an "addiction"; others call it a "nasty habit." Whatever you want to call it, I'm talking about something that you believe you need in order to be okay.
We all love a good bargain, but shopping addict Roshanda Hill shows us what happens when a penchant for discounts gets out of control. Hill is the ...
The reality is that only a small percentage of those who have addiction problems attend AA. We need to have additional approaches.
We all have a wounded self -- our ego -- that we developed as we were growing up, to protect us from pain. Our wounded self becomes activated when we get scared -- scared of rejection, of engulfment, of being hurt.
Families struggling with addictions are part of our community. We should strive to help, support and understand that which threatens any and all of our families.
While working hard, overcoming challenges and adversity, and being passionately committed to important and complex things in our lives aren't inherently bad, resisting ease and being attached to struggle causes me and so many of us a great deal of stress, worry, and pain.
On the bottom of the front cover was his picture in a mug shot. As the legendary attorney Frank Haddad said, "no one looks good in a mug shot." John Boel didn't either. The Louisville news anchor who won seventy Emmy awards had a problem.
Here, everyone was clean, healthy and safe. They were inside and not a burden to public safety issues. I was very impressed with the community there. What impressed me the most is I saw lives being saved (and money too).
To free ourselves from our destructive habits, we need to co-create a culture of consciousness, where all of us are more aware, more relaxed and happy, and more free to respond in healthy ways.
"I believe the key to happiness is someone to love, something to do, and something to look forward to." -Elvis Presley The King had it right. If...
Ashley Judd appears to have a perfect life, and being the sibling of a perfect child can be tough. Just like Wynonna, I have a problem with food.
Staying steady in the wake -- when emotional detritus slams the walls, and tears stain the faces -- may be what is needed to allow for the very next moment, when indeed a step forward actually might occur.
Addictions, be they to drugs or people, are transformative. They are a "fix" for negative feelings. The problem is that the fix doesn't last. It can't.
This is the tenth in a series of 12 posts expounding on the 2011 forecasts in the annual trends report from Salzman, president of Euro RSCG Worldwide ...
America is going through economic chaos. But a lot of other things are going on, too. There aren't enough of us living normal, stable lives.
The extreme stimulation of today's enticements can hijack our brains. We may not be safe from addiction when it comes to unrestricted access to super stimulating natural reinforcers.
The cost of needing to be right is a negative outlook, frustration, an overload of judgment and can start that back of the brain voice working overtime!
