Own Your Emotional Reactivity MysteryShrink for the Short Attention Span is about what you can do right now to make a difference in your experience inside your head and with other people. We humans are predictable. We can use this information for good. For starters, open a folder and log …
Impractical Psychology On this New Year’s my mind goes back to Ellen, the thirty-three-year old mother with breast cancer who, after she’d been informed that she had from twenty-four to forty-eight of consciousness left, called me for help. Me? What did I know? I was a twenty-five-year psychologist barely out …
Complaining is Bad for Your Health: “Eat it the Way It Is!” Back in graduate school I had a course in behavior modification design. The first assignment was to set up a plan to alter a self-destructive behavior of our own. Of course, the instructor did not recognize that, just …
The Opposite of Love is Not Hate: It’s Using People How to Sell Lots of Books I hunched down in an end seat on the back row of the Century City Los Angeles Hyatt Hotel auditorium. My presence was forced labor, a contract requirement from a publisher. The publisher had …
MysteryShrink Short Broke and Stupid in the Houston Bus Terminal The first time I was in a bus station was on a hot Houston morning that marked the end of a months-long ridiculous marriage. All I could think about was how badly I’d messed up. And messed up in a …
You Need a License to Eat Here? MysteryShrink Mexico Short Sonia, a new university friend, and I settled into a high-backed, carved wooden booth at the Gran Ancira Hotel Bar. Monterrey, Mexico, was the first night on our Freedom Trip adventure. The day before Sonia had pulled her application with …
Food, Boundaries, and the Fastest Way to Ruin a Lovely Dinner MysteryShrink Short The couple at the next table at Brennan’s in old New Orleans giggled and smiled like newly weds- which they were. Both widowed in their sixties, they’d met a year ago on a cruise and married six …
