Bringing you the best of mental health It makes no sense, but one of the most remarkable and important findings in recent psychological research hasn’t gotten the attention it deserves and still has not had much impact on the practice of psychotherapy. I’m talking about the ACE Study. In the 1990’s, the CDC and theContinue reading “The ACE Study”
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Calm
The website Calm.org has instructions for meditation. They will tell you stories as you go to sleep. Click here to do nothing for two minutes.
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.
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”
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.
Clean Sweep
Bringing you the best of mental health I’ve posted it before, but this is a link that’s worth repeating in this season of setting goals and making resolutions.
Electric Eve
Bringing you the best of mental health every week. One of my personal holidays is tonight, December 18th. I call it Electric Eve. This is the thirty-second anniversary of the original Electric Eve. I spent five years of my young adulthood living close to the land, on a dirt road, with my first wife inContinue reading “Electric Eve”
Keith Wilson - Counseling 