Why Do We Make New Year Resolutions? Reading this post means you are among the millions who make New Year resolutions each year. It also means you are among the millions whose resolutions fizzle out well before Valentine’s Day. The dawning of a New Year feels like a blank screen on which to project a …
If You Never Overeat Holiday Food… You really do not need to read this. So instead, go do a good deed in your community and then relax. If Holiday Food Does Cause You Weight Gain… I assure you that it really does not have to. With a little shift in your outlook, you can enjoy …
What is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy? Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is psychotherapy for helping people get a handle on their problems. It is based on the fact that the interaction of thoughts, actions, and feelings drives our psychological state. In other words, our actions affect our thoughts and emotions, our emotions affect our thoughts and actions, …
Are you good enough? Attractive enough? Smart enough? Fit enough? Nice enough? Are cognitive distortions messing with your head? Let’s start with easier questions. Is this dog cute enough? How about this baby? Now let’s move on to harder questions. Is the dog cute enough—for what? To be saved from the pound? …
What do goats have to do with nice girls and cognitive habits? Well, read on… A friend recently sent me the meme shown here. At first, I just laughed and replied along the lines of, “2020 the year that keeps giving,” and “Stop the planet I wanna get off.” And then I started thinking. I had …
As a psychologist, my job is to help people figure out what cognitive habits and what behavior habits they have developed that get in the way of their happiness, and then help them change those habits. In other words, I help them get a handle on their habits. Allow me to clarify. What Are Habits? …
