Our sympathetic nervous system is designed to save us when faced with a visible predator such as a lion, bear, or an aggressive human. It gives us three options other animals use: fight, flight, or ...

If you are like me, you are finding yourself right smack dab in the middle of winter wondering when it will all be over! The short cold days and the long dark nights can often give rise to the ...

I frequently receive letters from folks who comment on my blogs and ask for my take on their situation. I am sharing one such exchange here, as I found the description by the letter writer to be ...

In this heartfelt therapeutic manifesto, psychotherapist Greenspan (A New Approach to Women and Therapy) argues that grief, fear and despair are not pathologies to be medicated away but emotions that ...