Breaking a bad habit can feel like swimming against a current. You know it isn’t serving you, but your brain defaults to it anyway. A bad habit is a learned behavior that’s performed automatically in ...

What do lions, tigers, bears, and a sink full of dishes have in common? Fight, flight, or freeze: our stress system’s responses to threat. When being chased by a lion, we will either run (flight), ...

When Marissa first came to me, she was going through her second divorce. Both partners had been physically and emotionally abusive during the relationship, and the divorce was nothing short of ...

People with almost no real friends tend to fall into three hard-to-break patterns that prevent them from letting anyone get close enough to matter.