11 Therapies To Help Deal With Loss
When you do something to relieve your feelings and to give yourself a sense of achievement, you are accomplishing your journey through bereavement....
When you do something to relieve your feelings and to give yourself a sense of achievement, you are accomplishing your journey through bereavement....
Waylon Lewis | Posted 10.23.2009 | Living
I grew up knowing Pema Chodron (the second most popular Buddhist in America, after that Dalai Lama guy). Or, rather, she knew me (I was just a little kid running around not paying attention to anything).
Eva M. Selhub, M.D. | Posted 09.26.2009 | Living
Take some time away from cyberspace and connect. Appreciate. See life and yourself as small miracles and allow yourself to experience awe.
Kari Henley | Posted 09.16.2009 | Living
Ask yourself this question: what percentage of time do you spend communicating with friends in person, vs. IM, Tweet, email or text? Has it shrunk con...
Kari Henley | Posted 08.26.2009 | Living
Despite the fact this summer has been filled with searing economic pains, deaths of too many, crazy weather disasters and money laundering scandals, w...
Jenni Schaefer | Posted 07.20.2009 | Living
My challenge today is to recognize insane ways of thinking and then to move in the direction of positive change.
news.yahoo.com | James Hibberd | Posted 05.29.2009 | Living
Watching TV might not make you happy, but for some viewers it beats being alone. Four new studies by the University at Buffalo and Miami University...
Kari Henley | Posted 04.29.2009 | Living
Well, I have to say one thing - HuffPost readers rock! This is one spirited group and thanks to everyone who joined in on the lively debate about "Fac...
Karin Badt | Posted 04.27.2009 | World
The film bears a highly controversial message: these economic-emotion exchange marriages work out to everyone's heart content.
Kari Henley | Posted 04.01.2009 | Living
Welcome. I am so glad you joined us. Please, settle in and get cozy. I want to talk about 'community,' something the Living Section is becoming very ...
Leeat Granek, PhD | Posted 02.09.2009 | Living
When you actually listen to people instead of giving them a bottle of pills, you begin to understand that no matter the situation, people's experiences make sense in the context of their lives.
Dr. Irene S. Levine | Posted 01.02.2009 | Living
The more lonely people are, the more nostalgic they tend to become as a way of increasing their self-perceived feeling of social support.
Dr. Irene S. Levine | Posted 12.19.2008 | Living
I telephoned a girlfriend today for a chat and she hit me with a bombshell. She politely told me that she saw no point in continuing our friendship.
Claire Bidwell Smith | Posted 11.08.2008 | Living
It can be comforting to look into the eyes of another who wakes in the morning whose first thought is of loss, and the same true before they fall asleep at night.
Dr. Irene S. Levine | Posted 11.07.2008 | Living
Time of Your Life tells the story of Jillian -- a thirty-something, married, suburban mother -- who suddenly sees her life playing out a different way than it did seven years ago, jumps to fix it, and takes the reader along for the ride
Bella DePaulo | Posted 09.21.2008 | Living
I live in the most ordinary American household - I live alone. Knock on any door in the nation and you are more likely to find a household like mine t...
Michelle Haimoff | Posted 07.02.2008 | Living
Observing large-scale technological phenomena informs us about where the culture's at these days; Twitter might indicate that people are lonely.
Richard Laermer | Posted 06.14.2008 | Media
What if restaurants put a bin near the door for our cell phones, Blackberries, etc? Consider what would happen when our dining companions got up to use the bathroom, leaving us alone. With our solo thoughts.
Karin Badt | Posted 06.07.2008 | Entertainment
In James Grey's new movie Two Lovers, no one finds mutual love. Each says to the other: "You deserve to be loved", while the recipient of the sentiment longs for someone else.
Catherine Specter | Posted 03.28.2008 | Living
Q: I think loneliness is such a universal yet under-discussed subject--maybe because it's sort of taboo. No one wants to admit to being lonely for fe...
World of Psychology | Posted 11.11.2009 | Living