Keith R Wilson

The Plant in my Office

Continuing my series on objects in my office, let me introduce you to the plant in the window. I placed this spectacular specimen of a jade plant right by the chair where I usually sit because I want to put it directly in your line of sight when you look towards me. I doContinue reading “The Plant in my Office”

You’re 36 Questions Away from Romance

Bringing you the best of mental health Can falling in love be as easy as asking and answering 36 questions? Well, no; they have to be the right questions and you also have to have at least four minutes of eye contact. Social psychologist, Arthur Aaron, needed to create a sense of emotional closeness inContinue reading “You’re 36 Questions Away from Romance”

Chronic Pain

Bringing you the best of mental health Chronic pain is not what you think. Click here to watch and learn what it really is.

Life After Hate

If you have ever wondered if people could change, or if you’ve just wanted to know how to do it, check out the website, the book, and the Ted Talk of Christian Picciolini, former Neo-Nazi skinhead, turned peace advocate. Click here to go to his site.

What Personal Peace is Like and How to Get There

If you’re one of those people who says you can’t understand how you can forgive when you’ve been deeply hurt, how you can be silent when injustice abounds, or how you can rest when you must make amends; I would say you already know how, if you know how to sleep.

45 Dreams

Bringing you the best of mental health If you have had a dream, or a nightmare, that features our current president, one Donald Trump, then psychoanalyst Martha Crawford is interested in hearing from you. She is collecting the nocturnal narratives that people have about our 45th president in her blog, 45 Dreams. She’s not sureContinue reading “45 Dreams”

The People of the Mind

As if it wasn’t hard enough to deal with the people who hurt you, you also have to deal with their representatives you carry around in your head. Actual people you can divorce, send to jail, move across the country and never see again; the people of the mind follow you, they share your bedContinue reading “The People of the Mind”

Check Your Privilege

Bringing you the best of mental health I’ve been to some pretty rough places. I’ve seldom been afraid. This isn’t because I’m a tough guy. It’s because I’m a guy; a white guy, six-foot-tall, two hundred pounds, maybe more muscular and athletic than most. Nothing bad has ever happened to me. That’s my privilege. IfContinue reading “Check Your Privilege”

The Opioid Crisis

Bringing you the best of mental health Considering how serious the opioid epidemic has become, and how many people have needlessly died, wouldn’t it be nice if there was a medication that people could take that could control their addiction to the substances? Funny, but there is. Federal law limits its availability.

The Re-Negotiated Relationship

Once you’re in a relationship with someone, you’ll always be in a relationship with that person. It’s like the Hotel California, you can never leave. I don’t care if you never speak to her again, if you move to the other side of the world, and put up a dartboard with her face on it;Continue reading “The Re-Negotiated Relationship”