Three weeks ago, my wife and I welcomed our new son, Max, into the world. Now that mommy and baby are both home, healthy and happy, I can admit something that I didn’t tell my wife during the delivery . . . I was terrified. While I was excited to meet my new son, I couldn’t help but think of all the things that could go wrong. We had a [...]
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Neuroplasticity: Healthy Shortcuts to a Happier Life
Today’s article is by Ashley Davis Bush, a licensed psychotherapist and grief counselor who has just published a new book, Shortcuts to Inner Peace: 70 Simple Paths to Everyday Serenity, which shows how one can find inner peace, even amidst the most stressful, annoying, or challenging situations. Take a deep breath and enjoy . . . Neuroplasticity is, for good reason, one of the buzziest buzzwords in the field of [...]
Face, Butt, Wit: Looking for Love in all the Wrong Places
This article was also published today on Positive Psychology News Daily. I previously wrote an article about Sam Sommers’ new book, Situations Matter (see Why Men are better than Women at Math.) But I liked this book so much that I agreed to write a second article in order to participate in their online book tour traveling around the internet (cool idea.) The theme of the book is about the [...]
The Peaks of Parenting
Any day now, my wife Catherine and I are expecting the birth of our second son. It is a bit nerve wracking since the first pregnancy was somewhat difficult. But our son Dylan has been an absolute joy and we have loved inviting him into our lives. Our plan is to stop at two, so I was somewhat taken aback when I saw this new study showing that the secret to [...]
On Jesus Christ, the Man
Christmas Day, December 25, is the largest holiday in the world, observed by billions of people. For many, this is a religious holiday, celebrating the miraculous birth of Jesus Christ, the son of God. But the holiday has transcended religion, becoming a cultural holiday marked by the exchange of gifts and secular icons such as Santa Claus, Frosty the Snowman, or Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer. Often, these two camps [...]
Lessons on our Media Culture from Penn State
Today’s article gives some inside perspective to the recent events at Penn State from two fellow UPenn MAPP (Master of Applied Positive Psychology) graduates. Leona Brandwene is a performance improvement coach and positive psychology instructor and Lorrie Peniston is a positive psychotherapist in Bermuda with Pennsylvania roots. Both are proud alumni of Penn State. “Penn State” elicits a broad array of emotional responses these days – but few are truly aware of how the [...]
A Reason to be Happy
You think you’ve had a rough life? This guest post is by Dr. Rob Pennington,a psychologist and the author of Find The Upside Of The Down Times: How To Turn Your Worst Experiences Into Your Best Opportunities, which chronicles the lessons he learned after getting shot, fired, divorced, audited and remarried with a spouse who then passed away from a devastating illness. There is a lot we can learn from him. [...]
Family Mealtime: The Hour that Matters Most
I recently received an advance copy of “The Hour that Matters Most: The Surprising Power of the Family Meal” by Drs. Les and Leslie Parrott. As a new parent with a 1-year old son and #2 already on the way, this is a topic that I have been thinking about a lot lately. In fact, my wife Catherine and I were just discussing our own histories with family meal times, [...]
What’s Good About Unemployment?
This weeks article comes from a reader, Allison Gamble, who read my article on “What’s Good About Work?” and felt I was only telling half the story. Allison has been a curious student of psychology since high school. She brings her understanding of the mind to work in the weird world of internet marketing with psychologydegree.net. Her perspective on making the most of time “between jobs” is inspring and an important [...]
The Contagious Nature of Virtue
Sandye, an old high school friend of mine, recently shared an uplifting true story on Facebook. She was waiting on line for the food service (pizza, hot dogs, etc.) at Costco with her husband and daughter. After waiting what seemed like forever, they finally got up to the front of the line and ordered their food. The food was all prepared for them, but they then learned that the window [...]
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