“Curing The Clutter Epidemic: Why Americans Have So Much Stuff, And How We Can Learn To Hold On To What Really Matters” By: Kathleen Parrish Published in July/August 2010 edition of  “The Saturday Evening Post” We live in a world of things, of junk, of stuff.  This fact was brought home to me – literally [...]

Eighteen years flies by in the wink of an eye.  It seems like yesterday that my wife and I were dropping off our daughter at her first day of kindergarten.  I can still remember the look in my daughter’s eyes when she realized her mom and I were going to leave her in this strange [...]

By Guest Columnist: McKenzie Kantra Have you ever gotten a good feeling just from being around somebody who’s happy?  Well, it turns out that there is actually a scientific answer to why you feel that way. It’s called “sympathetic resonance.” We all know that objects can pick up on vibrations from objects that are near [...]

In my last article, “The Triangle of Love,” I described Robert Sternberg’s “Triangle Theory of Love,” and how the three components of love (i.e., Passion, Intimacy, & Commitment) combine in different ways to produce eight different types, or triangles, of love. The ultimate form of love, Complete or Consummate Love, while not easily achieved or [...]

“Love” is a BIG word, no matter how you look at it.  Ask a hundred people how they would define “love,” and it’s unlikely that you’ll find the same definition given twice.  We need only look at a few quotes about the subject to see that love means many different things: Love is a wildly [...]

By: Augusta F. Kantra, MS, LPC “Discipline is choosing between what you want now and what you want most.” Since reading this quote a few days ago I’ve continued to think about it quite a bit.  Originally, I liked it because I thought it was clever, but the more I thought about it, the more [...]

Imitation is often thought of as a low-level, cognitively undemanding, even childish form of behavior.  However, recent work across a variety of sciences argues that imitation is actually a rare ability, fundamentally linked to human forms of intelligence, such as language, culture, and the ability to understand the minds of others.  Much has been written [...]

In a study conducted by Diener and Fujita (1995), the availability of “material” resources was 9 times less important to happiness than was the availability of “personal” resources such as family and friends. Imagine for a moment that today was your last day on Earth.  Now, make a list of all the things that you [...]

To start your day off on the right track, try the “Trigger Note” technique. Find a spot somewhere in your morning routine that you know you’ll see every day. Mirrors tend to be a great spot (the bathroom mirror, bedroom mirror, even the car rear-view mirror works well), but almost any place where you know [...]

How did you sleep last night? When you put your head on your pillow, did you go straight to sleep or were you suddenly wide awake?  It has been estimated that as many as 40 percent of Americans will suffer from some form of sleep disturbance at one time or another.  If you have trouble [...]