anxiety

healthy eating, alive to self, Psychalive, Meredith Watkins
Thy Food Shall Be Thy Medicine

Anyone who has worked with people with addictions and particularly challenging mental health issues, such... >>

prescription drugs , psychalive, drug abuse, mental healtth
Mental Health Professionals React to U.S. Abuse of Prescription Drugs

With a 2011 Centers for Disease Control report showing U.S. overdoses of prescription painkillers to... >>

Courage, assertiveness, critical inner voice, vulnerability, Dr. Robert Firestone, Psychalive
A New Slant on Vulnerability: Courage Not Conformity

This blog contains excerpts from an interview with Dr. Robert Firestone by Fred Branfman, political... >>

VIDEO: The Nature of Anger

Donald Meichenbaum, Ph.D. is  a founder of Cognitive Behavioral Modification and has been voted one... >>

self image, self confidence, self esteem, psychalive
Changing Your Body Image Once and for All

I recently took my 10-year-old niece and her cousin shopping for new dresses. As they... >>

Stress, critical inner voice, psychalive, Dr. Lisa Firestone
Silence the Inner Voice That’s Stressing You Out

Millions of Americans struggle with unhealthy levels of stress. Stress isn’t just destructive to our... >>

It Is Immoral To Stop People From Loving You

Some of the most destructive behaviors, commonplace in relationships, are those that people act out... >>

Regret, death anxiety,
Living Free From Regret

A friend of mine sent me a list of The Top 5 Regrets People Say on... >>

Understanding Our Style of Relating When Triggered

When we are triggered emotionally, it can all feel sort of choiceless; like we have... >>

Violence
The Beginning of the End of Mass Imprisonment and the Misuse of Prisons as Our De Facto Mental Health Care System

The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Brown v. Plata on May 23 ordering the state of... >>