Dance it Off – Moving for Happiness
I’m a big fan of exercise and movement as a solution for nearly everything. Below is my famous or infamous “Last Dance” video that I filmed after a day when I got beat up pretty bad by all things...
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Let’s Do the “Three-Step” (Emotional Change Trick)
This morning’s weekly missive of “most read” articles from the Journal of the American Medical Association included a study evaluating the effects of high-dose “fluvoxamine and time to sustained...
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Exploring Irritability with CBT
Irritability is a fascinating experience. It’s hard to perfectly describe, so I looked up the definition online. Dictionary says: “The quality or state of being irritable.” Hahaha. This is the sort of...
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What Do You Think of Me?
When I was teaching social skills to elementary school-aged youth, one boy couldn’t stop talking about himself. Because I wanted the students to be interactive with and interested in each other, I...
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The Effectiveness and Potential of Single-Session Therapeutic Interventions
Imagine the possibility of a scalable single-session intervention that has been shown to be effective with a wide range of mental health issues. In these days of widespread mental health crisis and...
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Writing Your Way to Better Health
Nothing works for everyone. Not everyone is comfortable writing about their experiences and not everyone can benefit from therapeutic writing. But, for those keen on the expressive writing modality,...
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Practicing Forgiveness – In Theory
Last summer, when I taught our Happiness for Teachers course along with Lillian Martz, one of the most powerful assignments involved forgiveness. Even though we emphasized that the teachers taking our...
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Storming: My Favorite Group Stage (at least for today)
In group class, we’re covering content related to group stage called “Storming.” The Coreys’, who’ve written about and led many groups, call this the “Transition” stage. During the storming or...
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Negative and Positive Reflections on Positive Psychology
In my Group Counseling class, I’ve experienced predictable questioning of or resistance to evidence-based happiness ideas from positive psychology. . . and so I wrote out some of my thoughts . . ....
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Working with Emotions in Counseling and Psychotherapy: Part 3
Most people intuitively know that emotions are a central, complex, and multidimensional part of human experience. Emotions are typically in response to perceptions, include sensations, and are at the...
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