Why You Should Forgive Your Cheating Ex

Jaylee made her way slowly across my office and into a chair. As she began to tell her story, silent tears coursed down her face and fell onto hands clasped tightly in her lap. Here is Jaylee's Read More

A Room of One's Own

“Lock up your libraries if you like, but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.” —Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own Altogether there were three: two boys and a girl, obviously bright, interested in life, wanting to make something of ...

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Movies of Your Mind or I Spy With My Little Eye

It all began with two incidents on the same day. First, I opened an envelope to find three hand-written pages of tightly-spaced words (some so tiny I had to use my magnifying glass) that read, in part: After being out of work for several months, I enrolled in career-training. Our last assignment was to ...

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Going for Gold - The New Neuroscience of "Choking"

His first words were, “Do you know about choking?” The question came from a physically fit young male who sat slumped on my office stool. Smiling, I replied, “Well, there’s choking that involves something getting stuck in one’s throat, and choking that describes failure under ...

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