Reducing Stress: Accepting the Limits of Our Control

In today’s society, we live under the illusion of control. This illusion begins from a very young age in which we are taught that we control the world around us.  We learned that our actions had effects on the world around us.  We realized that if we cried...

Erasing Anxiety with Intentional Relationship Commitments

The media is flooded with evidence of individuals who are struggling to find ways of maintaining relationships that are important to them and subsequently failing.  One could argue they are failing because we are a disposable society who can’t seem to commit to a...

Brain Health and Emotional Health

I recently attended an enlightening conference, The Evolution of Psychotherapy, where I had the pleasure of attending a seminar conducted by Dr. Daniel Amen, a psychiatrist, brain image specialist and prolific author who focuses on brain health. Here are some the the...