Getting Through Thanksgiving with Misophonia
This post is written for people with misophonia, a condition in which a person has an automatic, sometimes intensely unpleasant internal reaction to specific sounds.
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Misophonia: what the heck is it and what’s a trigger?
Misophonia is a condition in which a person has an automatic, unpleasant internal reaction to specific sounds.
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Pain, values, compassion, and a dying dog
Just about three years ago, I wrote a blog post titled “Pain and values: two sides of the same coin” about our amazing dog Dalai.
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Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in Portland, Oregon
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is a specific type of psychotherapy that is different from traditional “talk therapy.”
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What Exactly is Insomnia? (and what you can do about it)
People can experience difficulties with sleep throughout their lives.
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Helping People Grieve with Compassion
One of the reasons it can be so difficult to approach someone who is suffering is that it can bring us face to face with our powerlessness to do anything about pain.
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Research graveyard may come to life
It’s an amazing day for scientific research!
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New Law in Oregon: Your Rights to Bereavement Leave
People who experience the loss of a loved one are often tasked with managing life insurance and legal issues, resolving financial paperwork, planning a funeral, and sorting through their loved one’s belongings.
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Why See A Health Psychologist?
When a person has significant issues with their health it can bring many challenges, more than just how it affects their body.
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Good Grief: Before asking how to get over your grief, ask whether you should.
Sometimes people aren’t very understanding of the pain of grief.
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Do Opioids Work For Chronic Pain?
The NPR program Fresh Air broadcast an interview earlier this week with New York Times reporter and author Barry Meier discussing his e-book A World of Hurt: Fixing Pain Medicine’s Biggest Mistake.
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How to avoid jet lag while travelling
For many years, it has been known that the effective use of light therapy and sunglasses can help you avoid jet lat and adjust more rapidly to a new time zone.
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Pain and values: two sides of the same coin
I’ve known and lived with many amazing dogs and cats in my life.
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The myth of security– Embracing vulnerability, uncertainty, and ambiguity in our relationships and in our world
Something many of us yearn for in our relationships is a sense of security.
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Less is More: Improving your relationship with the “less stuff, more experiences” strategy
Oversaturated. That’s how it can feel once the holidays have ended.
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Home for the holidays—Tips for surviving the holidays with relationships intact.
The winter holidays are quickly approaching.
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Recovery from Schizophrenia? Yes, it’s Possible!
If you live in a major city you have probably encountered a person who is dressed strangely, mumbling to himself, not making eye contact, and perhaps pacing back and forth or engaging in some other repetitive behavior.
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Spoiler Alert: Spoilers Don’t Spoil
Have you ever had the experience of learning the ending of a book, movie, or TV show that you had really wanted to read/watch and saying to yourself, “AARGH—it’s ruined for me!”?
