by Jen McWaters, Psy.D. | Jun 9, 2017 | Mindfulness, Personal Improvement
Are you stuck in a place you do not want to be? Are you disheartened to find a great distance between who you are and the person you would like to be? Are you stuck in old patterns, habits, or autopilot behaviors? Do you experience thoughts that discourage change...
by Rochelle Perper, Ph.D. | May 12, 2017 | Anxiety, Depression, Personal Improvement, Stress, Therapy
Life is hard. Yet, many of us make it worse by being hard on ourselves. We waste precious time beating ourselves up, wallowing in guilt, or chastising ourselves for mistakes we feel we’ve made. We live in a “Get Over It and Move On” society where we are implicitly or...
by Other | Apr 21, 2017 | Education, Personal Improvement
Written by Amanda Baba, Intern As a senior undergraduate student at the University of San Diego, I find myself counting the months until graduation. As excitement escalates, the nerves set in and the question “What next?” keeps coming up. That question comes also from...
by Other | Apr 14, 2017 | Personal Improvement
Written by Mike Campbell, Ed.D. People have been trying to understand how individuals process and take in information for the past 2000 years. As far back as the Greek philosophers, Socrates (469 –399 B.C.), Plato (427 – 347 B.C.), and Aristotle (384 – 322 B.C),...
by Other | Mar 10, 2017 | Anxiety, Personal Improvement, Stress
Written by Francine Martinez, Ph.D. Happiness, Sadness, Anger, Surprise, Disgust, and Fear: These are universal emotions that we all share, and they rank as the six most cited emotions in the literature. Images come to mind when we think about these emotions in our...
by Other | Mar 4, 2017 | Personal Improvement, Relationships, Therapy
Written by Jennifer Wendt, Ph.D. Our lifespan is comprised of a progression of stages during which we face new dilemmas and experience new accomplishments. From early childhood thru the retirement years we all endure similar phases of life: childhood, adolescence and...
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