Pause Your Machinery: Emotional Rupture

An excerpt from my recent book, Your Mind Is What Your Brain Does for a Living, now available at Amazon: Stop and take a moment to “pause your machinery.” The concepts and techniques I present throughout my latest book, Your Mind Is What Your Brain Does for a Living, require mindfulness to learn and master,

21 May, 2014
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Rhesus Monkeys and Good Parenting

An excerpt from my recent book, Your Mind Is What Your Brain Does for a Living, now available at Amazon: Let’s look at an example of how a parent can repair a rupture in his or her child’s attachment. When I was five years old, my father walked into the living room, found me

15 May, 2014
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Are Your Dreams Outside the Lines?

“The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” is a famous short story by James Thurber about a man who leads a mundane life but daydreams about heroic deeds. To me, that quality defines what I think of as a “closet outlier.” My elementary school teacher, speaking in a dictatorial manner, taught us when we were

8 May, 2014
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Therapy and the Voice In Your Head

An excerpt from Chapter 2 of my recent book, Your Mind Is What Your Brain Does for a Living, now available at Amazon: I jokingly tell people that the only person I’m aware of who has had more therapy than me is Woody Allen. When I first started therapy, I was thirty-one years old.

7 May, 2014
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Dealing with My Inner Self-Critic

In my recent blog “A Wonderful Surprise” I talked about my newfound 30-year-old cousin, who changed his life from gangbanger to youth coach and activist, choosing a positive path in life. As part of this change, he had his gang-related tattoos covered over with ones that represent his new identity, which is reminiscent of the

29 Apr, 2014
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