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What Happens When You Make a Mistake?

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Hilary Jacobs Hendel Lcsw

Disrupt Yourself: How Practicing Adaptability Helps Us

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Robert Kovach Ph.d

Can You Put Parochial Interests Aside for the Greater Good?

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James M. Kerr

On Why It's Difficult to Give Negative Feedback

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Brian K. Perkins Ed.d

Questioning the Boundary Between Pain and Suffering

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Mark D. Sullivan M.d

Changing Our Perspectives Can Improve Our Lives

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Barbara A Jaffe Ed.d

How to Stop Living on Autopilot

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Lybi Ma

Building Resilience in Times of Moral Distress and Moral Injury

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Sheela Raja Ph.d

3 Ways to Instantly Become a Better Partner

3 Ways to Instantly Become a Better Partner

Becoming the best possible partner means learning how to show genuine love.

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Mark Travers Ph.d

The Trouble With Tolerance

What happens when we stop pretending respect and start actually listening

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Sam Goldstein Ph.d

5 Things Mentally Healthy People Avoid

What you don’t do is just as important for your mental health.

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Carla Shuman Ph.d

Fortune Without Philosophy: Success Destroys the Unprepared

Fortune Without Philosophy: Success Destroys the Unprepared

Plato explains why sudden success destroys those unprepared for it.

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Chester H. Sunde

How Your Goals and Purpose Change Over Your Lifetime

Each life stage comes with challenges and dangers. Here's how to navigate them.

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Robert Taibbi L.c.s.w

Electrical Sex: The Art of Erotic Connection

Electrical Sex: The Art of Erotic Connection

How to transform your sexual energy through authenticity and attunement.

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Moshe Ratson Mba

Knowledge Doesn’t Exist the Way We Think It Does

Knowledge Doesn’t Exist the Way We Think It Does

Critically thinking about epistemology, research questions and methodology.

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Christopher Dwyer Ph.d

The Challenge of Impulsive Eating

The Challenge of Impulsive Eating

Do you have a personality type that inclines you to impulsive food choices?

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Kristen A. Carter Ms

The Hidden Cost of Comparison

The Hidden Cost of Comparison

Comparison can be the thief of grief.

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Cheralyn Leeby Ph.d

How to Go From Intention to Action and Skip the Excuses

How to Go From Intention to Action and Skip the Excuses

Why the difference between intentions, reasons, and excuses determines outcomes.

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Jennice Vilhauer Ph.d

The Nervous System of a Sports Parent

Neurobiology for your child’s game days

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Margaret Smith Ph.d

Are We Losing Our Kids or Discovering a New Way to Parent?

A reality check for parents raising kids in the age of AI

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Atara Malach M.a

The Psychological Toll of Living with a Rare Disease

The Psychological Toll of Living with a Rare Disease

A look at a rare progressive disorder that affects balance and cognition.

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Michiko Kimura Bruno M.d

One Easy Way to Handle Challenging Holiday Conversations

Don’t allow difficult relatives to make you angry and ruin holiday events.

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Michael Miller

Cultivating a Helpful Inner Voice, a Thought Experiment

Personal Perspective: Developing wise, compassionate, and supportive self-talk..

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Mike Travisano

When Diagnosing Toxic Relationships Becomes Toxic

How to avoid unnecessary cutoffs with friends and family members.

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Michele Weiner-Davis Lcsw

When AI Changes the Shape of Thought

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John Nosta

When Brené Brown Met Adam Grant: The Authenticity Trap

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Mark Lipton Ph.d

What Hallmark Can Teach Us About Big Family Decisions

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Jessica Troilo Ph.d

Life Is a Dance: A Holistic Perspective for Well-Being

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Alice E. Schluger Ph.d

How I Found Flow by Climbing a Tree

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Kent Roberts

Protecting Your Eating Disorder Recovery

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Carolyn Karoll Lcsw-C

Climate Change Isn’t Just Affecting the Weather

Climate Change Isn’t Just Affecting the Weather

Droughts, floods, fires, and more are impacting our mental health.

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Daniel Fryer M.sc

ADHD and Substance Use Disorder: Key Challenges in Treatment

ADHD and Substance Use Disorder: Key Challenges in Treatment

Integrated care is essential for treating co-occurring ADHD and substance use.

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Mountainside Treatment Center

When Racism Is Hidden in Plain Sight

When Racism Is Hidden in Plain Sight

University campuses send messages of exclusion without saying a word.

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Monnica T Williams Ph.d

The Algorithm Can't Love You Back

The Algorithm Can't Love You Back

Why you should come home to yourself, not your notifications.

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Lacey Johnson Mmft

Dating After Divorce: Timing Is Everything

Dating After Divorce: Timing Is Everything

How to prioritize your children while dating post-separation.

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Lisa Zeiderman Esq

The Uncomfortable Truth About Ego Defense Mechanisms

The Uncomfortable Truth About Ego Defense Mechanisms

There's a lot more to ego defenses than making us feel good about ourselves.

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Eric Haseltine Ph.d

What Truly Matters More Than the Capacity to Love?

What Truly Matters More Than the Capacity to Love?

A Personal Perspective: Acceptance is the heart of mindfulness

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Anthony Silard Ph.d

The Case for Being the Office Gossip

The Case for Being the Office Gossip

Why talking behind someone’s back might be good for your team—and for you.

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Wes Adams And Tamara Myles

AI Is the New Blank Screen

AI Is the New Blank Screen

What therapy can teach us about our love affair with ChatGPT.

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Mark Oconnell Lcsw-R

What Happens When AI Does the Writing?

What Happens When AI Does the Writing?

Parents need to set limits on AI use for writing.

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Corinne Masur Psy.d

Helpful or Harmful? The Cost of AI's New Learning Tools

Helpful or Harmful? The Cost of AI's New Learning Tools

Privacy disappears when AI tools track children's questions and browsing.

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Timothy Cook M.ed

Why Is Getting Started So Difficult With ADHD?

Why Is Getting Started So Difficult With ADHD?

Try these 3 approaches for making it easier to initiate tasks.

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Liz Nissim Ph.d

How Psychedelics Shape the Experience of Catastrophic Events

How Psychedelics Shape the Experience of Catastrophic Events

The Nova Festival attack is a living laboratory of psychedelic effects on trauma.

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Mark S. Gold M.d

The Fan Fiction Dilemma

The Fan Fiction Dilemma

Stories based on copyrighted material pose an existential threat to authors.

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Roger Kreuz Ph.d

Experiencing Climate Distress on Top of Brain Injury

Experiencing Climate Distress on Top of Brain Injury

When treating brain injury, therapists need to address climate anxiety, too.

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Shireen Jeejeebhoy

Alarm Fatigue and Health Care Workers' Mental Health

Alarm Fatigue and Health Care Workers' Mental Health

The hidden psychological toll of constant hospital alarms.

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Mia Barnes

I Wish Our Dog Lizzie Would Stay

I Wish Our Dog Lizzie Would Stay

Personal Perspective: The vet said that 17 years is a long run for a dog.

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Rita Lussier

Zero Suicides Is the Goal

Zero Suicides Is the Goal

An HMO in Detroit proved that ending suicides is possible. Now others are joining in.

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John Bateson

The Drift of Randomness? Your Brain May Need Routine

The Drift of Randomness? Your Brain May Need Routine

Evidence reveals the impact of routine on anxiety, addiction, and other issues.

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Rodney Luster Ph.d

The Mistranslation That Hid Plato's Psychology

The Mistranslation That Hid Plato's Psychology

The Republic is really about self-governance, not political systems.

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Chester H. Sunde