Suppose you want to eat less chocolate cake. You can put 100% energy and focus into this issue. You can read about the hazards of chocolate cake. You can visit with a nutritionist. You can keep the refrigerator stocked with vegetables. Or you can go the other way. You can recognize that eating chocolate cake […]
Are Your Values Genuine?
by James Robbins, M.A., LPC What personal values are the most important to you? Love, money, health, kindness, career, spirituality, honesty, family? Now consider this: Does your current life reflect this value? Do your daily behaviors, your daily thoughts and feelings, strongly align with this value? If you spend hours daily thinking about money, worrying […]
Is Politics Even About Politics?
by James Robbins, M.A., LPC For most people, voting in political elections is a social phenomenon at least as much as it is a political one. From a psychological perspective, there are two basic political parties: People who politically agree with their parents, people who politically disagree with their parents. In both cases, no one votes–or abstains from […]