5 Tips on How to Keep New Years' Resolutions
Why bother to make resolutions and then feel disappointed or guilty for breaking them? Do you get excited and resolve to change, but within days or weeks lose interest and can't motivate yourself? Wonder why you get sidetracked by distractions or become easily discouraged when quick results aren't forthcoming? The problem is threefold: More...

Taking in The Good
Scientists believe that your brain has a built-in "negativity bias." In other words, as we evolved over millions of years, dodging sticks and chasing carrots, it was a lot more important to notice, react to, and remember sticks than it was for carrots. More...

An Interview with Ellen Walker, Ph.D., on Childfree Living
Psychologist Ellen Walker, Ph.D. is the author of the book, "Complete Without Kids: An Insider's Guide to Childfree Living by Choice or by Chance", written in reaction to her own decision to forgo having children and consequent awareness of many people who have made the same choice. Social pressure to have children cause this choice to be stigmatized unfairly. In response, she uses the term "childfree" rather than "childless" to emphasize that the choice to not have children can be a deliberate decision and not an absence. More...

Three Surprising Facts About Happiness
If you're stuck in a bad mood, anxious and ruminating or simply feel that your emotions are beyond your control, these 3 surprising facts might give you one or two strategies to try to alter some of those negative feelings and keep positive feelings around. More...

It's About Relationships, Not Food!
Beginning in infancy, relationships, food and feeding become intertwined. Think about it: Baby cries and baby gets fed. Someone has to do that feeding, and that someone is usually holding the baby and relating to him or her. So, from our earliest memories, food and being fed is one of our first ways of connecting to one another. As we grow and develop, social events often revolve around mealtimes; whether it is family dinner or a social gathering with friends, we are enjoying the nurturing that food and company can provide. With the eating-disordered population, however, the connection between food and relationship can become a troublesome link. More...