Long-standing emotional baggage from the past can easily affect us today. Negative or anxiety-producing patterns can easily keep replaying; they form a deeper rut and stronger network connections each time they play in a self-perpetuating cycle. Pulling out the weeds first can make rewiring and planting new networks easier....

Nature is nurture. The reduction of stress it provides is well established. Our growing indoor lifestyles dominated by screen viewing is harming us. It’s not how we were designed. Far too many people are constantly glued to their screens, even when they’re walking outside! They’d be hard-pressed to be...

Creating our own mental images is rapidly becoming a lost skill, especially compared to past generations. In our technology saturated environment, with apps like YouTube, it is all done for us. When are we forced to imagine? Very few people do it, and we need to get better at...

Click the image above to see my segment on this from the ABC Good Day Show. With one out of every four American’s working from home, millions are wondering how to separate work/home life, schedule, meet deadlines, and stay motivated. Below are 5 things that can help: GET YOUR...

COVID-19 has presented mankind with the greatest opportunity to slow down and learn how to navigate and quiet our mental noise. When you remove the usual brain stimulation from before the pandemic, you’re still left with about 50,000 daily thoughts; many of which are outrageous and false. These thoughts...

We’ve heard a lot lately about the dangers of misinformation. Even Twitter is increasingly flagging posts, with the disclaimer: “the content of this message is disputed and might be misleading.” This is one step in the right direction. What’s even more harmful to us, is our internal messaging: what...

Smartphones make it easy to block someone. Blocked contacts are no longer able to call you or send you messages. It’s liberating, helps you turn the page, and move forward in your life. Wouldn’t it be awesome to be able to also block certain people and situations mentally? To...

Now that youth baseball has restarted (with safety protocols) one of my favorite things as a coach is to help developing brains deal with performance uncertainty. The kids just don’t know how it’s going to go. None of us do. So, I try to get them, including my 11-year-old...

In these uncertain times, it helps to embrace the uncertainty instead than letting it ruin the moment you’re in. What’s saved me a lot of anguish over the years is to keep repeating to myself, “maybe, maybe not.” Maybe the schools will be on a normal schedule this fall,...

“Now that I’m 51, my best days are behind me. My business is going to go under due to COVID-19. I will most likely die alone, surrounded by 13 cats. The heck with all my futile searches for toilet paper. Should I just install a bidet? Would it spray...