Life feels like a roller coaster, where we are pushed and pulled around by our emotions. Sometimes it’s exiciting, thrilling and fun, other times it’s scary, nail-biting and anxiety provoking. Some part of this experience feels somehow, out of out control. This is something that you likely understand intuitively. When…

Attention-Deficiet Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD; previously known as ADD). Is a neurodevelopmental disorder and among the most commonly diagnosed. The primary symptom, as you know, is a chronic and debilitating inability to direct one’s focus or attention. There are subtypes which emphasize inattention, impulsivity or hyperactivity. The prevalence rates of ADHD…

In our world of near constant technological connectivity, it might do our brain some good to voluntarily take a break. When you turn your phone on Air Plane Mode, you make it such that you phone is no longer sending or receiving data. Your phone is still entirely useable for…

One of the most vexing things about the human experience is that, no matter how objectively good things are, there will always be at least one thing that we are not satisfied with. The better life becomes, the more critical our gaze upon it can become. When everything feels “right”…

The thing determining your happiness is relatively simple and can be captured in a single sentence: “When you look to the future, do you imagine things getting better, staying the same, or getting worse?” Your answer to that question can largely be used to summarize your happiness in the present…

We have all been there… wrapped up with questions of the “Ultimate Concerns”. Irvin Yalom in his 1980’s text, “Existential Psychotherapy” highlights the four “Ultimate Concerns”. These are unreconcilable conflicts that all humans find themselves wrapped up in: Meaning vs. Meaninglessness Everything you do potentially has meaning. Each word I type has a…

Non-monogamy is becoming more common as people realize that “till-death-do-us-part” vows of forever exclusivity to a single person is incompatible with human nature. …

We live in a world where the idea of happiness has been hijacked. We are encouraged to believe that happiness is something that we earn or gain when we get the right career, accomplish a certain milestone or are able to afford that one “thing” that we’ve always wanted. Even…

Most people fear appearing weak. If we are weak, we are rightfully afraid that we are also in danger. Weakness begets a feeling of insecurity and vulnerability; when we recognize our weaknesses we feel the need to compensate for them. Since weakness leads to a feeling of vulnerability, many have…