After two or three years of messing around with the proportions, I’m pretty sure I’ve finally nailed the perfect low carb peanut butter cookie recipe. It’s difficult to get it right without any flour or sugar, as these ingredients generally lend chewiness and crispiness to peanut butter cookies. But I think the following recipe is…
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A Bad Experience With Camden-Grey Essential Oils
I have recently had the misfortune to purchase an essential oil product from a company called Camden-Grey Essential Oils, Inc. – If you follow that link you will find the detailed incident report that I filed on ripoffreport.com, which provides a venue for people to complain about companies that have scammed, ripped off, defrauded, or…
Homemade Low Carb Chicken Soup Recipe
I’m not feeling very well this week. Last week I came down with something I’m pretty sure was swine flu, while Sara Kay was busy coming down with a wicked head cold. As usual, we each let our diseases run their course and then traded off to extend the fun. So now I’ve traded in…
Two-Week Low Carb Detox
Those of you who know me know that I follow a pretty low carb diet all the time. I don’t eat bread or potatoes or sweets (usually), and I generally manage to stay under 50 or 60 carbs a day. Even so, when your better half is a sommelier, it gets pretty easy to put…
New Professional Psychology Web Site
I have decided to create more separation between my personal activities and my professional ones on the internet. This is mostly because the field of psychology is very conservative and the people involved tend to have a lot of misgivings about any personal facts about a therapist being lumped together with their professional presentation. There…
Planning for the future
Photo by: Swisscan For the several years that I have been completing my doctoral training in clinical psychology at the Adler School of Professional Psychology in Chicago, I have been planning to open my own private group practice once I have received my license. This summer I am preparing to take the NCC exam to…
Hermann Rorschach & The Amazing Technicolor Inkblot
On a psychodiagnostic residency, where your job is just to understand people, one of the tools you use is the famous Rorschach Inkblot Test. In this test, the patient is shown a standard series of pictures created by squirting ink onto a page and then folding the page over. They are then asked to describe…
Psychotherapy vs. Medication Management
Rose writes: Can I get treated for depression? I’ve just been prescribed new antidepressants and sedatives and I’m really frightened but feel I have no alternative as I can’t function normally. Thanks for writing in, Rose. Your question touches on an issue that has stirred up a great deal of controversy over the last hundred…
How To Enjoy The Simple Pleasures
A nice, relaxed meal; a slow walk on a sunny spring day; time alone with loved ones. It’s an accepted wisdom that the little things in life are often the most enjoyable. The more you allow yourself to stay in the moment and focus in on the simple pleasures, the better your overall quality of…
Defining Torture
Eric Puryear writes: A fellow law student and I were debating the current issue of terrorist interrogation, and what practices would offend anti-torture aspects of the constitution and international treaties. The question came up as to whether any practice which compelled someone to speak against their will was torture (see the UN torture definition at…
How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love CSI:Miami
Let’s face it: if you’re reading this article, you’re probably not like the others. There has probably always been something a little different, maybe even a little awkward about you. But you used that difference as a strength; you took it as your permission to explore the world from new angles, and to develop yourself…
The Happiness Project
In February, Alex Shalman had the great idea to explore what people mean when they say they want to be happy. The result was a list of five simple questions that formed the basis for bunch of really great interviews which you can read over at The Happiness Project page. What’s great about these interviews…
We Live in Memories and Dreams
In my recent article on hypnosis, I mentioned fairly casually that we don’t live in the present moment. We live in memories and dreams. This is an idea that will not be unfamiliar to those with a mystic bent, but the rest of you may suspect that there is some craziness going on here. In…
8 Things You Didn’t Know About Hypnosis
Hypnosis is a sort of spooky and misunderstood phenomenon. Most of what people generally know about hypnosis comes from movies and stage performers, not real clinical hypnotists. You may not even realize that clinical hypnosis is a very well-established and scientifically validated medical practice. It’s used by psychotherapists, physicians, nurses, dentists, and anesthesiologists to produce…
A Long-Term Strategy For Increasing Creativity
A million authors have written a million articles about amping up your creativity for a minute or two at a time. This article is different, because I intend to help you develop a full strategy for boosting your creativity whenever you need it and as much as you need. The first thing to get a…
Knowing Your Tells: Body Language and Unconscious Communication
People communicate with each other constantly, and in ways we hardly ever even realize. You heard that right: even a truly prolific writer is unlikely to ever match in written words the sheer volume of information that is constantly transmitted to the people around them, in the form of body language, expressions, small gestures, barely…
What To Think About Before You Start Therapy
When you’re considering psychotherapy, you should remember that the most important aspect of the treatment, in terms of predicting whether it will be effective for you, is the relationship itself. A deeply trusting and cooperative relationship with your therapist must be developed in order for all the other things that need to happen to happen….
Is Chronic Stress Ruining Your Health?
For thousands of years, life was simple. You spent most of the day dawdling around with your family. You dozed, made arts and crafts, tended fires, gathered nuts and berries. The only time this lifestyle got hectic was when it was time to track and kill an animal, or when it was time for you…
Take Control of Your Brain with Mindfulness Meditation
In working with sufferers of chronic pain, I’ve taught hundreds of people to practice mindfulness meditation. I do this not only because mindfulness meditation is in itself an effective treatment for chronic pain, but also because it helps the practitioner to manage their thoughts and emotions more effectively. It can help you to boost your…
Mind-Body Medicine: 5 Surprising Ways Psychology Can Improve Your Physical Health
On some level, most people recognize that psychological factors affect physical health. People basically seem to know, for example, that a stressful career or a ‘Type A’ personality might give them a heart attack, or that an abrasive colleague can give them a headache. What most people aren’t fully aware of is the profound interconnection…
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An extensive case against fluoridation.
Amazing. The protests against the bankers, corporations, and politicians has spread to every major city in the US, plus Puerto Rico, Hong Kong, Frankfurt, Taipei, Calgary, Madrid, London, Rome, Brussels, Sydney, Amsterdam…. Where can this be going??
Imagine for a moment that somewhere in the middle of Texas there was a large foreign military base, say Chinese or Russian. Imagine that thousands of armed foreign troops were constantly patrolling American streets in military vehicles. Imagine they were here under the auspices of "keeping us safe" or "promoting democracy" or "protecting their strategic interests"….
Armed Chinese Troops in Texas! http://www.youtube.com/v/XKfuS6gfxPY&hl=en&fs=1&autoplay=1
Great video for a great song! This will make you smile
Frank Turner – Photosynthesis http://www.youtube.com/v/mQMVHhxTtLc&hl=en&fs=1&autoplay=1
I vote to eliminate greetings and signatures in email.
