Author Archives: Keith R Wilson

Looking at the Flip Side

If you’ve been hurt by the one you love, don’t forget to look at the flip side. That’s the other side of the coin, the positives, the reason you have been with the person in the first place. It’s only fair, but don’t do it because it’s fair.  Do it because the flip side saysContinue reading “Looking at the Flip Side”

The Shrink’s Links: Sabbatical of the Mind

Bringing you the best of mental health every week. Six years from retirement, working for a three-letter government agency, David L. Winters suddenly quit his job so he could devote some time to getting a handle on his anxiety, his over-eating, and to deepen his faith. Winters relied on medication to manage nearly disabling panicContinue reading “The Shrink’s Links: Sabbatical of the Mind”

The Road to Reconciliation: The Journey, Restated

I’ve been at this series for quite a while, describing the road to reconciliation. These posts are an early draft of what I expect to be my next book. You have the privilege of getting it first; but, sometimes, as I write, need to go back and revise. That’s the case this time. I hadContinue reading “The Road to Reconciliation: The Journey, Restated”

The Shrink’s Links: A Labor Day Manifesto

Manifesto: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front Love the quick profit, the annual raise, vacation with pay. Want more of everything ready-made. Be afraid to know your neighbors and to die. And you will have a window in your head. Not even your future will be a mystery any more. Your mind will be punched inContinue reading “The Shrink’s Links: A Labor Day Manifesto”

The Road to Reconciliation: Learn to Walk

Stand with your feet comfortably together. If you want to go somewhere, what do you do? You take one foot and put it forward until you throw yourself off balance. Then, at the last instant, when you’re about to fall on your face, you bring the other foot up to meet it, until you areContinue reading “The Road to Reconciliation: Learn to Walk”

The Shrink’s Links: The Principle of Tenacity

Bringing you the best of mental health every week. In this year’s election, you may have noticed people clinging to unreasonable political beliefs. When they post their poorly considered opinions on Facebook, you try to argue against them, but you can’t convince them of anything. Why is that? Why can’t they change? How can youContinue reading “The Shrink’s Links: The Principle of Tenacity”

The Road to Reconciliation: Calibrate your Compass

Take a perfectly functional compass and put it in a room with an electromagnet and it will forget which way is north. It’ll point to the magnet because the magnet is exerting a force that it cannot ignore, far more powerful than that exercised by the distant, measly north pole. When a problem enters aContinue reading “The Road to Reconciliation: Calibrate your Compass”

The Shrink’s Links: Book Review: The Come Up for Men

Bringing you the best of mental health every week. At an under-advertised book fair, us authors did little more than sell or give books to one another. But I got a chance to meet Tracy Williams and hear his concerns about how, with the decline of marriage and increase in mass incarceration, few men remainContinue reading “The Shrink’s Links: Book Review: The Come Up for Men”

The Shrink’s Links: Book Review: Internal Family Systems Therapy

Bringing you the best of mental health every week. You are divided. You must have noticed this when you’re trying to decide whether to have that chocolate cake, or stick to your diet; when you rise, groaning from your bed, despite how comfortable that pillow looks; when you want to tell your boss to shoveContinue reading “The Shrink’s Links: Book Review: Internal Family Systems Therapy”