What Do You Fear?
How on earth are we born with so much potential for emotional achievement, yet we wind up making ourselves throw up, murder people who don’t cooperate with us, punch people in the throat who speak...
View ArticleHap-i-licious
Everyone has a perfect right to behave foolishly. And they often exercise that perfect right. No one HAS TO treat you respectfully, honestly, favorably or kindly. If they do, it is because they chose...
View ArticleA Story About A Puppy
I was talking today about a graduate education in clinical counseling. The prospective student with whom I was speaking was wide-eyed, like a puppy caught in the act of discovering the inside of a...
View ArticleHappiness
Enduring, long-lasting and permanent happiness may not even be a prospect of wo/mankind. If it isn’t one thing, it’s another. If you win the lottery, you will be worried that time passes too quickly...
View ArticleIQ and Self Esteem – A Measure of Emotional Intelligence
There is growing support for including athletic ability, artistic talent, comfort with wild animals and even rational reasoning in social problem-solving in how we evaluate intelligence. Then there are...
View ArticleEmotion is a biopsychosocial phenomenon
Emotional intelligence theory recognizes the important role neuro-anatomy plays in supporting emotional health. Although our discussions thus far have focused a lot on thinking and reasoning (or the...
View ArticleWhat Am I Afraid Of?
How on earth are we born with so much prospective for emotional achievement, yet we wind up making ourselves throw up, murdering people who don’t cooperate with us, punching people in the throat who...
View ArticleThe Million Moms vs Human Rights
This post is a departure from my traditional blogging topics. Although we encounter any number of opportunities to improve our emotional intelligence, I think the One Million Moms (OMM) movement is...
View ArticleA Boy From Honduras
Several years ago I worked with a seven-year-old boy who didn’t speak English. He was from Honduras and he spoke about fifty or sixty words familiar to me – mostly nouns and verbs. The rest of the...
View ArticleCornwall Counseling
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