Replacing Female Stereotypes with Empowering Archetypes
Unconscious stereotypes about women in leadership run deep. Once identified, we can replace them with powerful archetypes.
Why Can’t We Be Friends? Resolving Sibling Rivalry
Brothers have fought with brothers, sisters with sisters, brothers with sisters since the beginning of time. Why? What can be done?
Fall Transitions: What Will You Harvest? What Will You Let Go?
Every transition in seasons can be a threshold for change. As summer ends, what are you leaving behind—and what are you looking forward to?
Dream Wisdom: A Guide to Self-Discovery
Shamans, mystics, priests, psychoanalysts, and neuroscientists have been puzzling over the same question for centuries. What can we discover about ourselves in our dreams?
The Contagion of Worry: A Tale of Collective Anxiety
Worry and fear are bedmates. Fear is a physiological reaction focused on a perceived immediate threat; worry is a thought process; worry is our brain thinking about what it fears.
The Sad Child and the Inner World of Abandonment
From infancy, we require the care of others to survive, which is why the fear of being abandoned is so primal, and the treatment for being abandoned so complex.
Who Do You Think You Are? What Is Your Personal Myth?
Personal myths determine how we perceive, feel, think, and make assumptions about what actions will cause what outcomes. What is your personal myth?
Grief, Loss, Abundance, Joy: Finding Refuge in Harsh Times
How do you alleviate stress in your life? Researchers are now measuring the beneficial impact that time spent with nature has on our health.
The Benefits and Burdens of Keeping Secrets
We all have secrets, including secrets from ourselves. They are a source of mystery and even excitement. Researchers are now exploring what keeping secrets costs.
Who Am I? Replacement Children and the Quest for Identity
Replacement children struggle with perfectionism, overachievement, survivor's guilt, anger, and remorse as they seek to develop their own identity.
Do You Feel Like a Replacement Child?
Psychologists have identified several different models and areas of distress affecting adult replacement children. How ungrieved sorrow can affect a family.
Befriending Our Wise Monsters: How to Unlock the Positive Energy Inside Our Worst Fears
What hidden monsters are you dealing with in your adult life? Is fighting them exhausting you? Maybe it's time to try befriending them.
Honoring Your Inner Witch
The portrayal of witches has swung from reverence to persecution through the ages. They exist outside society, figures of power and magic. Why do they continue to fascinate us?
Your Dreams Know More Than You Do: Are You Listening?
Dreams have fascinated us since the beginning of recorded history. What does recent neuroscience research tell us about why we dream and what our dreams could mean?
Using Stories to Treat the “Boy Crisis of 2025”
How storytelling can help boys reframe trauma and build identity: Part two of my conversation with therapist Tyler Schueffner, LPC-IT
Helping Men and Boys Navigate These Changing Times
A conversation with Tyler Schueffner, LPC-IT, about his uniquely varied approach to working with men and boys, especially those from working-class and marginalized communities.
Reawakening Our Responses to Overcome Habituation
Are current events making you feel numb? Habituation is when we have diminished responses to repeated stimulation. It can be overcome. Learn how to “dishabituate” and “resparkle.”
Motherless Sons: The Impact of Loss
How early mother loss shapes a boy’s identity, grief, and emotional connections
Feeling Lost? Try Reading a Poem
Research shows poems not only offer insight but also a healing balm for stress.
