Self Development

Why It Is Good For You to Feel Negative Emotions

How can we best deal with our day-to-day emotional reactions? What can we do when... >>

How To Be Assertive While Keeping A Kind Heart

A friend doesn’t return your email. You wonder if she is angry with you but... >>

Five Tips for Maintaining Lifelong Friends

When it comes to our physical and mental health, friendship may truly be the best... >>

Exclusive Interview with Mindfulness Expert Dr. Jon Kabat-Zinn

Watch PsychAlive’s exclusive video interview with mindfulness expert Dr. Jon Kabat-Zinn below.

You Don’t Want What You Say You Want

To the extent that people don’t want what they say they want they are duplicitous... >>

The Space Around Thoughts

Life. Running here and there. Pre-occupied with this and that. Swept away by one thought... >>

Thoughts About a Massacre

We can point fingers in the aftermath of Sandy Hook.  It is the guns, the... >>

5 Ways to Beat the Winter Blues

Why we feel down at the end of the year and what we can do... >>

Identifying and Treating Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

What is Obsessive Compulsive Disorder? When we think of obsessive compulsive disorder, different images come... >>

Compulsive Shopping

Like most process addictions, compulsive spending and shopping serves an unconscious purpose. The purpose is... >>