"Most likely the in your life, the problem is not the problem. The way you are dealing with the problem is actually the problem."
~Robert Lehman, PhD, LPC (27)
"Most likely the in your life, the problem is not the problem. The way you are dealing with the problem is actually the problem."
~Robert Lehman, PhD, LPC (27)
We have to be willing to be afraid; to face our fear—often our deepest fears in order to actually accomplish almost anything meaningful in life. No matter what we want to accomplish, we have to be willing to move beyond comfort to fear. (44)
It's not facebook, twitter, or any other "thing" that is wrong with our society. If someone is a bully on facebook, then he's probably a bully in real life. If someone is narcissistic on Twitter, she’s probably the same way in real life. Tools don’t make us anything, they simply reveal what is there. That’s…
"Adventure isn't hanging on a rope off the side of a mountain. Adventure is an attitude that we must apply To the day to day obstacles of life – Facing new challenges, seizing new opportunities, Testing our resources against the unknown and in the process, Discovering our own unique potentional."~John Amatt (50)
Two golden rules of teaching:"If you have not read a book, always make it clear to the students you have not done so; and (tangentially related) if you do not know the answer to a question, admit you do not know the answer. The desire of the teacher to appear omniscient must be resisted at…
Simply having a thought doesn't make it true. Too often we allow our thought processes to control our feelings without evaluating the truth of our thoughts. We do not have to be slaves to our thought processes. We can look at each thought and decide it's merit. When we decide they do not have merit…
The overriding reason for the surge in serious problems on campus is that college is the age of depression. Depression, bipolar disorder, anxiety and other serious mental conditions first rear their head in late adolescence. Also, colleges are harvesting the first crop of kids who grew up on Prozac and other new-wave antidepressants. The drugs…