Peggy Drexler, PhD As social media has mutated into a ravenous, many tentacled time-eater, news from our friends about their families’ triumphs and trials has become omnipresent, and unrelenting. It can be a never-ending vacation slide show from hell. As a result, every day there’s...
By: D. Harrison, PhD 1. Save your major worries until about midnight, then start heavy thinking. Suggested topics include your age, losing your job, the mistake you made at work last week that they haven’t discovered yet, that suspicious wart you’ve had for five years,...
By Andrea Slagle-Abrams, LSCSW 1. Get close to them and use their name to get their attention first. It is not helpful to call from across the room. For example, go up to your child and say, “Sally, I have something I need you to...
WHAT Did You Just Say? Communication Differences of Men and Women “He should just KNOW what I want if he loves me,” she exclaims. “I TRY to solve her problems, but she gets mad when she’s upset and I give her advice,” he declares. And...