Clinical trials have found that feeling grateful lowers blood pressure and heart rate, improves immune function and decreases lifetime risk for depression, anxiety, and substance abuse disorders. In this post I share a simple practice we can use daily to increase this emotion – which might be one of the best gifts we can giveContinue Reading: Thanks Giving: The Science Of Gratitude

Acceptance – of self, others and the world at large – seems often in short supply these days. Importantly, these three are always one: true acceptance flows in all directions.Rejection of of self, others and the wide world – while rewarding in a direction Dr. David Burns calls the joys of battle –  is alsoContinue Reading: Acceptance: Wellspring Of Emotional Healing

The relationship between a therapist and patient lays the foundation for the work these two can do together. Join my colleague Heather Clague MD and I for a consideration of two key elements of therapeutic alliance: emotional connection and collaboration

The year 2020 has been a time of extraordinary stress and trauma for most all of us. In additional to individual traumas, we’ve experienced a series of unprecedented natural disasters, a global pandemic, and frequently deadly civil and political strife. Few alive today have experienced a year in which so many bad things happened toContinue Reading: Hardiness: A New Construct For A New Time

How is it that some patients recover in a single therapy session? After decades of daily panic attacks, leave their first session and never have a panic attack again? And how is that other patients work diligently week after week, month after month, perhaps year after year, to make this same change? In this postContinue Reading: The Rainmaker: A Transformation Parable