For far too long, mental health has been used as a euphemism for mental illness. I have many issues with this, but the one I’m writing about today is this: We all have some degree of mental health, as mental health lives along a continuum from serious mental distress and disease to excellent mental health […]
While I was writing my book, Choosing Me Now, I discovered something that surprised me: we all have some sort of built-in need-strength bias. To understand what this means, you might want a rudimentary understanding of Choice Theory, the psychological theory developed by the late Dr. William Glasser. Choice Theory teaches that we are born […]
There are some major misconceptions in the area of couple relationships. People often think when two people commit to an exclusive relationship, “Two become one.” This is a nice, romantic sentiment, but I can’t figure out how it happens. Two people are still two individual people attempting to make a healthy, loving relationship and life […]
