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Articles by Michael Logan

• Intimacy in Relationships
  Intimacy in relationships early on, according to Helen Fisher,Ph.D., is a function of three systems in the reward center of the brain activating, the lust, love, and romance centers, which are governed by androgens, dopamine, and oxytocin.
  Published 16Mar2011, viewed 272 times

• Improve Listening Skills
  The one downside that I have discovered is that if folks get a sense that I can do this, and because so few of us do it well, I am invited to listen and listen and listen, even when my four year old daughter is demanding my attention. So listening well demands that I be able to set boundaries ("Can you excuse me for a moment, my daughter is setting fire to the cat..., I'll be right back.")
  Published 05Mar2011, viewed 164 times

• Bereavement Counseling
  In my counseling practice, with my domestic violence and anger management folks, I teach a model of grieving every anger management workshop, and way too frequently in my domestic violence classes.
  Published 23Feb2011, viewed 158 times

• Seniors Exercise-Aging Gracefully
  Aging Gracefully - With Seniors Exercise There are many reasons that senior citizens should exercise on a regular basis, but the main one is that it helps to increase your overall health and ward off life-threatening diseases - especially those associated with aging.
  Published 26Jan2011, viewed 359 times

• What is Your Favorite Positive Feeling?
  What is your favorite positive feeling? These days, I think I will take contentment, and a sense of quiet pride.
  Published 04Oct2010, viewed 143 times

• Recovery From Drug Addiction
  I am glad folks are curious and searching for information on recovery from drug addiction.
  Published 27Sep2010, viewed 134 times

• Improve Your Brain
  Improve your brain how? Does improve your brain mean a better memory, a higher IQ, less chance of Alzheimers, better spelling, quick insights, witty retorts, mind reading, superiority, Nobel Peace Prizes, greater wealth?
  Published 26Sep2010, viewed 114 times

• Elderly Issues
  Elderly issues are wide ranging, and trying to write a page that provides a broad range of typical information is daunting.
  Published 22Sep2010, viewed 197 times

• Learned Optimism
  Learned optimism learned fast. I believe very much in the concept of learned optimism.
  Published 21Sep2010, viewed 197 times

• Domestic Violence and Child Abuse
  The statistics indicate that when one parent, typically the male, is abusive to the other parent, the children are more likely to be abused as well.
  Published 19Sep2010, viewed 135 times

• Treatment for Drug Addiction
  Treatment for drug addiction has become very specialized over the years.
  Published 15Sep2010, viewed 156 times

• Anger Management Techniques
  Anger management techniques must be implemented in 1/18th second. That is about twice as fast as you can blink your eyes, which takes perhaps 1/10th second.
  Published 14Sep2010, viewed 142 times

• Alcoholism Drug Treatment
  Developing information about brain based alcoholism drug treatment is an important part of the sweeping change that happens when one wishes to be rid of alcoholism or drug addiction.
  Published 12Sep2010, viewed 128 times

• Exercise Over 50 For Your Brain
  Exercise over 50 is mandatory. That is if you want the best possible brain.
  Published 10Sep2010, viewed 149 times

• 12 Step Recovery
  12 Step Recovery has been a path to recovery for tens of thousands of addicts of every stripe since the mid-1930's. I have watched many folks walk the the 12 step recovery path successfully, and I have watched many fall from the path with tragic results.
  Published 09Sep2010, viewed 133 times

• Eating Counseling
  I come to the eating counseling topic from three directions. The first is the connection between low blood sugar and violence as outlined by Barbara Reed Stitt in her book, Food and Behavior.
  Published 06Sep2010, viewed 191 times

• Self Help Stress
  Self help stress is very doable. The stress response is what my body does when it perceives a threat. (Perception happens in the brain).
  Published 27Aug2010, viewed 110 times

• Self Help Software
  Even for a veteran self helper, self help software is a curious and wonderful place to explore.
  Published 26Aug2010, viewed 135 times

• Emotional Intelligence Skills Happen Inside Your Brain First
  Emotional Intelligence Skills involve brain fitness? According to Simon Evans, Ph.D. and Paul Burghardt, Ph.D., the answer is yes, and here is what they say.
  Published 23Aug2010, viewed 138 times

• Stop Panic Attacks
  Anxiety is on the rise and more people are seeking ways to stop panic attacks without having to rely on prescription medications. Some of the most popular solutions are mental strategies and natural (herbal) medications.
  Published 21Aug2010, viewed 153 times

• What is Your Level of Cognitive Reserve?
  Not sure about you, but this 62 year old brain needs all the cognitive reserve it can get.
  Published 20Aug2010, viewed 110 times

• Therapy for Grief
  The best therapy for grief is time and community. We humans have been dealing with death since we began, and every culture, every clan, every family, has created some kind of ritual.
  Published 19Aug2010, viewed 179 times

• Beta Blockers for Anxiety
  Beta blockers for anxiety are used to keep the adrenaline a person feels from having such a great impact on the body. During an anxiety attack, physical symptoms can present which include fast breathing, rapid heart rate and shaking or trembling.
  Published 19Aug2010, viewed 201 times

• The Heart Beat of Anxiety Relaxation
  Anxiety relaxation sounds like it is impossible to do, at first reading, doesn't it?
  Published 17Aug2010, viewed 202 times

• Stop Anxiety Attacks
  Some people mistakenly believe that before you can stop anxiety attacks, you have to pinpoint the reason you're having one in the first place.
  Published 17Aug2010, viewed 213 times

• Biofeedback Stress
  Can learning biofeedback cause stress? For awhile it might, but I think that biofeedback is an excellent tool to have on board for those moments when I switch from eustress to distress, and want to flip back.
  Published 13Aug2010, viewed 148 times

• Biofeedback Relaxation
  I have used a number of biofeedback relaxation techniques in my counseling practice including handwarming, EEG biofeedback, and heart rate variability biofeedback, which is the tool I have used since becoming a licensed one on one provider in 2000.
  Published 12Aug2010, viewed 172 times

• What are Panic Attacks?
  If you've been suffering from extreme anxiety that comes on suddenly and doesn't cause any real physical effects afterwards, then you'll want to be asking, "What are panic attacks and is this what I have, too?"
  Published 11Aug2010, viewed 159 times

• Is Stress Reduction Meditation Even Possible?
  Is it even possible to do stress reduction meditation in a fast paced society where taking two twenty minute breaks to sit quietly and chant a mantra could cost you your job?
  Published 10Aug2010, viewed 135 times

• Alleviating Anxiety
  Alleviating anxiety is something we all need to learn how to do. Anxiety shows up in many different physical ways. You might not even know that's what's going on within your body. Anxiety can cause your heart rate to beat faster than it normally would for no apparent reason.
  Published 07Aug2010, viewed 194 times

• Help for Your Panic Attack
  If you're suffering from extreme anxiety, you'll want to know what sort of help for panic attacks is available so that you can choose the option that works best for you. Some people wait until the situation is dire to seek help.
  Published 06Aug2010, viewed 155 times

• Grief Counselor
  I am not a grief counselor by education, however, my clients, no matter what the presenting issue, have at some point demonstrated grief, sadness, even intense crying, about a loss which has impacted their lives, so I made it a point to learn something about grief and the grieving process.
  Published 05Aug2010, viewed 248 times

• Aging Gracefully
  Is aging gracefully an oxymoron? Shouldn't we be raging against the night, to paraphrase an Irish poet?
  Published 03Aug2010, viewed 159 times

• Positive Cognitive Aging
  Cognitive aging at the age of 62 can result in some scary feelings, a little worry, a little fear, because these days my vision or my memory is not quite what it was, and so on.
  Published 02Aug2010, viewed 145 times

• Stress Counseling
  Stress counseling is a significant part of my practice, and you may ask what stress counseling means.
  Published 28Jul2010, viewed 197 times

• Panic Attack Relief
  When you're in the middle of a panic attack, relief can seem very far away.
  Published 28Jul2010, viewed 174 times

• Natural Herbs for Anxiety
  You can take natural herbs for anxiety instead of relying on synthetic medicine to treat your needs.
  Published 26Jul2010, viewed 201 times

• Anxiety Attacks in Children
  Anxiety attacks in children happen more often than you might think. Unlike adults, who can articulate what they're feeling and know to seek assistance in order to deal with it, children don't.
  Published 24Jul2010, viewed 192 times

• Herbal Remedies for Anxiety
  Taking medication isn't for everyone and if you're the type of person who doesn't like to take medication, you should be aware that there are herbal remedies for anxiety.
  Published 23Jul2010, viewed 159 times

• Anxiety Depression Syndrome
  Anxiety depression syndrome won't discriminate according to sex, age, race or religion. Anyone can get it but not everyone takes the all too important steps to get treatment for the condition.
  Published 22Jul2010, viewed 163 times

• Causes of Anxiety Attacks
  Experiencing anxiety attacks causes even more anxiety. Did you know that? It's because there's so much misunderstanding in society and even among some doctors about what exactly anxiety is and isn't.
  Published 21Jul2010, viewed 141 times

• Finding Your Anxiety Cures
  Why would you want to find anxiety cures? Because they are good for your neurogenesis. Not sure what that is? Please read on.
  Published 20Jul2010, viewed 170 times

• Cognitive Behavior Therapy for Anxiety
  Cognitive behavior therapy for anxiety is therapy to break the cycle of wrong thinking. It gives a person back control, educates and changes the way certain patterns or way of life have been lived.
  Published 18Jul2010, viewed 203 times

• Need Information on Anxiety Attacks?
  If you or someone you care about is suffering with anxiety attacks, information that can help them and you as you support them is available. Most people would say that anxiety is only a feeling and nothing more. While it's true it is a feeling, there's a bit more to it than that.
  Published 17Jul2010, viewed 359 times

• Reducing Stress and Anxiety
  Taking steps for reducing stress and anxiety in your life will not only give you serenity but can add years to your life, too. Stress puts both your body and your mind under strain. Short-term stress (called eustress) can't be helped and we all have to make it through stressful situations. Let's avoid distress, though.
  Published 17Jul2010, viewed 178 times

• Coping Strategies for Anxiety
  Can following a strategy based on the pillars of brain fitness help you cope with anxiety? Absolutely, and not only do you cope with anxiety, you grow new neurons. Not sure about you, but when it comes to brains, I think bigger is better.
  Published 17Jul2010, viewed 162 times

• How to Build Counselling Relationships
  The counselling relationship is the essence of the helping process in counseling, and I think it begins, at least in the clients mind, before there is ever any attempt to set up an appointment.
  Published 13Jul2010, viewed 201 times

• Emwave Personal Stress
  Does emwave cause personal stress? The answer is no. The emwave is the name for a powerful heart rate variability biofeedback stress reliever, based on research on the heart's own sophisticated nervous system.
  Published 12Jul2010, viewed 146 times

• Stress Management Program and Brain Fitness?
  Your stress management program is an inside job. In other words, stress is a physiology that exists inside my body. Most of us have learned to link the external world to our physiology, by blaming the outside for the inside.
  Published 10Jul2010, viewed 154 times

• Your Own Personal Stress Management Technique
  My personal stress management technique has got to be very powerful, whatever it is. Doesn't seem that there is any let up in stress these days, does there?
  Published 10Jul2010, viewed 140 times

• Stress Relief Management
  Stress relief management is an interesting keyword combination to write about.
  Published 05Jul2010, viewed 146 times

• Workplace Eustress Mangagement
  Is it possible to manage work place stress? Yes. And practice is necessary. And what could a counselor teach about workplace stress anyway?
  Published 04Jul2010, viewed 430 times

• Mindfulness Anxiety
  Who wants to be mindful of their anxiety? I ask that question a bit tongue in cheek, but how can their be any relief from anxiety by becoming attuned to our inner experience? Shouldn't I be taking pills by the handful, or perhaps consuming food or drugs or luxuries or sex as an antidote to my anxiety?
  Published 30Jun2010, viewed 173 times

• Anxiety Stress Management
  Anxiety stress management is an interesting juxtaposition of ideas. There is a way to manage both anxiety and stress, or even anxiety about stress management.
  Published 27Jun2010, viewed 176 times

• Stress Eraser
  Stress eraser is one of those phrases that makes me smile a bit, brings to mind an image of those products that I saw advertised as a kid in the back of comic books
  Published 27Jun2010, viewed 172 times

• Mindfulness Cognitive Therapy is Like Monitoring Your Twitter Stream?
  Mindfulness cognitive therapy can be likened to monitoring your thinking stream like you do your twitter stream, exept your thinking and physiology are much faster than twitter. In fact, you process sensory data perhaps twice as fast as you can blink your eyes, so mindfulness cognitive therapy needs to be fast doesn't it?
  Published 21Jun2010, viewed 194 times

• Cognitive Behavioral Therapist
  We have about 60,000 thoughts per day, I read somewhere, so we need to make a majority of them serve us. Your cognitive behavior therapist can help you with that.
  Published 21Jun2010, viewed 185 times

• Positive Cognitive Counseling
  I first saw cognitive counseling referred to in my early days in the addiction treatment business, and the reference was in the Big Book of AA.
  Published 20Jun2010, viewed 314 times

• Why Your Counseling Intervention Should Begin Here!
  The term counseling intervention has taken on a little different meaning since the A&E show about addictions interventions, although this particular kind of intervention has been around since Vernon Johnson began it in the 1970's, I believe.
  Published 15Jun2010, viewed 177 times

• Counseling Anxiety
  Counseling anxiety can involve a number of tools, and I am speaking from a utilitarian view.
  Published 13Jun2010, viewed 195 times

• Mindfulness Psychotherapy
  Mindfulness psychotherapy to me is somewhat like looking at the Necker Cube.
  Published 10Jun2010, viewed 120 times

• Heart Felt Anxiety Counselling
  Anxiety is no fun, and anxiety counselling needs to be productive fast.
  Published 10Jun2010, viewed 143 times

• The Body Language of Facial Expressions
  We begin learning early on in our lives about body language facial expressions.
  Published 08Jun2010, viewed 360 times

• Body Language Explained
  You want body language explained? Learn how to ask questions. The right kind of questions to another about your observations or concerns in regards to their emotional state can be a wonderful gift to another human being.
  Published 03Jun2010, viewed 371 times

• Non Verbal Body Language
  Non verbal body language is about 90% of our communication as human beings. But can you trust your observations to be truth?
  Published 02Jun2010, viewed 220 times

• Understanding Body Language
  We grow up with an excellent understanding of body language. The development of that understanding begins in infancy with our communication with care givers.
  Published 26May2010, viewed 149 times

• Body Language Books
  My first body language book was "Body Language" by Julius Fast which I read when I was an undergraduate in the 1960's.
  Published 25May2010, viewed 248 times

• Brain Training Exercises
  Bet you thought brain training exercises meant something like memorizing the NYC phone directory?
  Published 18May2010, viewed 280 times

• Online Counseling Degrees
  An online counseling degree? My, how the times have changed. Not even two years ago, my reading of the literature about online educational programs was that there were questions about accreditation and value.
  Published 17May2010, viewed 336 times

• Brain Games for Adults
  Brain games for adults is a bit of misnomer, if by games you mean something to pass the time, because we adults can do much more with brain games these days than pass the time.
  Published 12May2010, viewed 382 times

• Memory Improvement Techniques
  The first memory improvement techniques to examine is brain fitness.
  Published 03May2010, viewed 170 times

• Marital Counseling Questions
  Marital Counseling questions are usually of the following kind;
  Published 28Apr2010, viewed 328 times

• Dating Coaching
  I could sure have used some dating coaching when I was a kid. I can remember how scary it was to want to call or go visit Gwen when I was a about 13, and how hard it was to muster up the nerve.
  Published 28Apr2010, viewed 162 times

• Marriage Coaching
  Marriage coaching is a growing service. If you are like me, and I was late in my 40's when I met Julie, my wife, I still had a bit of starry-eyed naivete about marriage.
  Published 27Apr2010, viewed 147 times

• Grief Coping
  Just this week, my wife Julie did some grief coping work on the 10th anniversary of her brother's death in a construction accident.
  Published 26Apr2010, viewed 202 times

• Grief Work In Counseling
  Grief work is often an important aspect of counseling.
  Published 26Apr2010, viewed 284 times

• A Model for Therapeutic Counseling
  When I think of how I want clients to leave their first therapeutic counseling session with me, I want them to feel more hopeful and a bit of excitement.
  Published 22Apr2010, viewed 291 times

• What Do Domestic Violence Counselors Do?
  I have been working as a domestic violence counselor educator in Illinois for most of the last 20 years, with court ordered clients, as there are very few volunteers.
  Published 21Apr2010, viewed 384 times

• Listening Communication?
  How can listening be part of communication? Isn't communication about speaking your message? If no one hears your message, has communication occurred?
  Published 04Apr2010, viewed 284 times

• What Are Brain Gym Exercises?
  Does brain gym exercises bring a funny picture to mind, your brain at the gym doing some curls, sit-ups, perhaps jogging, or perhaps your brain has taken itself to the library to read some interesting material on...brains, or maybe your brain is saying that it needs to exercise some sleep?
  Published 18Apr2010, viewed 409 times

• Concentration Exercises
  One of the best concentration exercises I have discovered for a lecture or conversation is to simply repeat the words of the person speaking to me inside my head.
  Published 14Apr2010, viewed 709 times

• Enhance Memory
  I want to enhance my memory! At 62 years of age, in a house with two kids, a lovely wife, who enjoys her conversation, and four cats, there are lots of distractions, and when you couple all that noise with my age, there truly is a need for enhanced memory, or I will forget my name, and I definitely will forget my schedule.
  Published 13Apr2010, viewed 255 times

• Memory Enhancement
  When I first think of memory enhancement, I am thinking of recalling facts as needed, getting prepared for an exam, for example.
  Published 11Apr2010, viewed 170 times

• Memory Skills
  Perhaps there was a time when we did not need memory skills, but I don't think that time is now. Whether you are a Boomer, a Senior Citizen, middle aged, building a career, or a student, the flood of information is overwhelming, and sorting through it and deciding what to try and commit to memory does take a skill all of its own.
  Published 11Apr2010, viewed 224 times

• Memory Exercise
  I can remember memory exercises and assignments all the way back to second grade, and they always involved drudgery and tedium, like memorizing and reciting the Gettysburg address, and making faces at the kid reciting to try and make them lose their place.
  Published 08Apr2010, viewed 338 times

• Brain Training Software
  For my Senior Citizen counseling clients, brain training software is of interest. Most of us Boomers and Seniors have noticed the changes that come to our memory with our age, and are definitely interested in managing that change, so that it does not become any worse.
  Published 07Apr2010, viewed 212 times

• Mind Execise
  Mind Exercise? You might react with a memory of high school or college calculus or statistics, and shiver as if it were about to start over, but that is not the mind exercise that I am writing about.
  Published 06Apr2010, viewed 172 times

• Memory Strategies and Neuroplasticity
  Are there such things as memory strategies, and how do we evaluate their worth?
  Published 04Apr2010, viewed 252 times

• Cognitive Exercises Need to be Quick
  Most counseling experiences are going to touch on cognitive exercises in some way, shape, or form.
  Published 02Apr2010, viewed 217 times

• Improving Concentration
  So you want to learn about improving concentration? If you are like me, until I did a bit of research, you thought that the key to improved concentration was gritting your teeth and squinting your eyes at the topic you want to concentrate on.
  Published 01Apr2010, viewed 146 times

• Improve My Memory? Is it Easy?
  Lots of people for lots of years have been telling me to improve my memory. I told them I would and then went blithely on my forgetful way.
  Published 31Mar2010, viewed 152 times

• Increase Intelligence
  Increase intelligence used to mean pour words, knowledge, books, research, and more words into your head, and reach a tipping point where you leaped a level in terms of insight, inspiration, or creativity.
  Published 30Mar2010, viewed 517 times

• Improve Intelligence
  Every parent, every boss, every teacher, possibly everyone wants to improve intelligence, because we operate from this paradigm that improved intelligence somehow makes us quicker, faster, richer, smarter, you fill in the blank.... If I somehow have more of 'it', then I will achieve more and achieve 'it' more easily.
  Published 29Mar2010, viewed 163 times

• Mental Exercises
  Could mental exercises be what you do in counseling? Or could it be what you do in the exercise gym? What you do when you learn something new? What about memory training, is that mental exercise?
  Published 28Mar2010, viewed 164 times

• Upgrade Your Brain?
  Good news for those of us who want a brain improvement. There are upgrades created in the form of new neurons everyday, if you take care of the pillars of brain fitness. That newly discovered capacity of the human brain is called neurogenesis
  Published 28Mar2010, viewed 166 times

• Brain Improvement
  If only there were a way to do brain improvement. That would be the ticket to fame and fortune, right?
  Published 24Mar2010, viewed 190 times

• Online Brain Training
  So you have been reading about online brain training, and you are ready to go, you plugged those words into your search engine browser, and got taken to a site that says "buy our stuff", in so many words, and based on your life experience, you hesitate before pulling out your credit card, and you decide to read a bit, research a bit, before buying.
  Published 26Mar2010, viewed 320 times

• Brain Booster
  Do you want a quick brain boost? And do you want a longer term brain boost? Probably both, and we now know a great deal about how to do both.
  Published 21Mar2010, viewed 219 times

• Happy Relationships
  Happy relationships are the result of Fairy Godmother intervention right?
  Published 19Mar2010, viewed 201 times

• Relationship Expert
  Can your relationships be enhanced by a relationship expert? What can a relationship expert teach you that you do not already know?
  Published 19Mar2010, viewed 176 times

• Love and Intimacy
  Who has not been befuddled by love and intimacy? Love and intimacy inspire huge industries, perfume, dating, publishing, movies, and marriage and family counselors have been honing their skills for decades.
  Published 16Mar2010, viewed 272 times

• Emotional Intimacy
  Emotional intimacy is hard to define, but I think we all know when it is happening in a relationship.
  Published 10Mar2010, viewed 694 times

• Intimacy Relationships
  Intimacy in relationshps can be learned and practiced, actually must be learned and practiced.
  Published 10Mar2010, viewed 233 times

• How to Find True Love
  How to find true love has gotten scientific. Used to be that we had to wait for Cupid to ambush us with his arrow, or the Fairy Godmother to wave her magic wand, or you did your best Hugh Hefner impression.
  Published 09Mar2010, viewed 189 times

• Relationships Tips
  When I want relationships tips, I have learned to look for folks who focus on strengths and I look for folks who have a long track record of research.
  Published 05Mar2010, viewed 177 times

• Teach Empathy
  How does one teach empathy? It is an important tool to teach kids, and it turns out that there are some discreet skills to the practice of empathy.
  Published 05Mar2010, viewed 362 times

• The Heart of a Successful Relationship
  I like to think of successful relationship as being built thought by thought, heart beat by heart beat.
  Published 03Mar2010, viewed 290 times

• Beginning of Relationship
  When is the beginning of a relationship?
  Published 03Mar2010, viewed 1440 times

• Building A Relationship
  Imagine you were building a relationship in an arranged marriage. You have met your husband/wife perhaps one time prior to your marriage ceremony, now what?
  Published 01Mar2010, viewed 297 times

• What Does It Take to Make Successful Marriages?
  What makes successful marriages? The Fairy Godmother helping you? The law of averages? Oxytocin spray? Aphrodisiacs? The PlayBoy advisor? I know I am dating myself with that reference, as I am not even sure their is a PlayBoy magazine anymore, but actually it is none of these things.
  Published 28Feb2010, viewed 159 times

• What is the Happy Marriage Recipe?
  What is the happy marriage recipe, and what role do chocolate and chemistry play in a happy marriage recipe?
  Published 27Feb2010, viewed 283 times

• What Kind of Chemistry Relationships is Best?
  What is real chemistry relationships? Most writers indicate that the chemistry of romantic love, which is a powerful, life changing experience, and can happen very rapidly in our brains, is not the true relationship chemistry, or is not a soul mate relationship chemistry.
  Published 26Feb2010, viewed 1147 times

• Chemistry Match
  A chemistry match for your relationship? Is it useful? Does it speed up the process of getting to the good stuff, that flood of dopamine that keeps us talking all night, writing long letters, pining away, among other things that lovers do?
  Published 25Feb2010, viewed 211 times

• How Many Kinds of Love Chemistry are There?
  Which chemistry of love are you seeking information about?
  Published 25Feb2010, viewed 1064 times

• Romantic Body Language
  Very few of my clients can identify the discreet movements of romantic body language, and few of them can describe the chemistry in their body when they are the recipient of romantic body language, but all of them can talk to the intensity of the feeling they have and how that feeling impels behavior, when romantic body language is perceived.
  Published 24Feb2010, viewed 444 times

• Keeping Love Alive
  How do those folks in arranged marriages keep love alive?
  Published 22Feb2010, viewed 212 times

• Chemistry Attraction
  Chemistry attraction to me is communicated non verbally, primarily by expression, and I think all our adult understanding and experience of this goes back to our experience of attachment behaviors, the glances and gazes and conversations we had with mom and dad when we were a freshly or not so freshly diapered infant.
  Published 22Feb2010, viewed 792 times

• Romantic Marriage
  Romantic marriage is not an oxymoron. We can do this and what it requires is regular attention. Romance is like your car in some respects. If you do not change the oil and rotate the+
  Published 20Feb2010, viewed 277 times

• Romantic Attraction
  Do you want more romantic attraction? Less romantic attraction? And what happens if you misread the signals?
  Published 18Feb2010, viewed 272 times

• Exercise the Brain
  How to exercise the brain in an hour per day, with extra sleep and IQ thrown in.
  Published 17Feb2010, viewed 872 times

• Chemistry Dating
  My counseling practice deals to a great extent with relationship issues, the domestic violence and anger management aspects of it particularly, and as I have studied the pathology involved in those behaviors, it occurred to me that I ought to study the solutions also.
  Published 17Feb2010, viewed 229 times

• Infatuation vs Love
  Understanding the neurology of infatuation using Helen Fisher's research might just offer some choices in the course of a potentially life changing experience. And looking at recent research about love by Robert Epstein,Ph.D. and John Gottman,Ph.D., I think there is a great deal of hope for couples to deepen and enrich their experience of love.
  Published 15Feb2010, viewed 4231 times

• Beginning Relationship
  Beginning a relationship and want to rely on something more scientific than the Fairy Godmother?
  Published 13Feb2010, viewed 270 times

• Better Relationship Through Chemistry
  Are you looking for home made better relationships? Any guidance available? As a domestic violence educator/counselor, which research or programs do I recommend?
  Published 12Feb2010, viewed 164 times

• Relationship Intimacy Heart Beat by Heart Beat
  Good news on the relationship intimacy front. Robert Epstein,Ph.D. and John Gottman,Ph.D. and Helen Fisher,Ph.D. have made some very interesting discoveries about what we can do to increase relationship intimacy.
  Published 11Feb2010, viewed 232 times

• Romantic Relationship? I Am A Guy, What Do I Do?
  Are you missing romantic relationship, or perhaps you want to add some romance to your relationship?
  Published 11Feb2010, viewed 179 times

• Tired of Trusting Your Relationship Chemistry to the Fairy Godmother?
  I remember trying to get relationship chemistry going, when I was a kid. My best resource was Playboy magazine, which I used to sneak peeks at the drug store, since I am pre-internet and pre-explicit movies,ect.
  Published 12Jan2010, viewed 198 times

• Courtship Marriage
  There are a number of very interesting courtship marriage researchers and writers out there now.
  Published 08Feb2010, viewed 315 times

• Making Relationships Work
  There are some great models out there for making relationships work, and the most recent ideas that I have seen are from Robert Epstein,Ph.D., who has studied arranged marriages in India, which have a 5% divorce rate, when our model based on Prince Charming, Cinderella, and the intervention of the Fairy Godmother has a 50% divorce rate in first, second, and third iterations.
  Published 07Feb2010, viewed 880 times

• Happy Marriages
  So you have seen happy marriages and you want to know how they do that so you can copy it for yourself.
  Published 20Jan2010, viewed 192 times

• Love Coach
  A love coach does what? Are you saying that love can be fomented and nurtured and sustained?
  Published 03Feb2010, viewed 223 times

• Relationship Quality
  Isn't relationship quality supposed to just happen? Boy looks at girl, girl looks at boy, they are smitten, struggle for awhile to get together, and then perhaps with the help of the Fairy Godmother, they do get together and live in courtship bliss for ever after.
  Published 05Jan2010, viewed 160 times

• Love Building
  What is it that we can do to build love? Can research into romantic love or relationship give us some guidance about love building?
  Published 01Feb2010, viewed 363 times

• Love Counseling
  Can skilled love counseling help us build love? Is there a blueprint to love which can be followed? Are arranged marriages more effective for the growth of love than our western model which demands the input of mystical fates and forces like the Fairy Godmother?
  Published 31Jan2010, viewed 187 times

• Relationship Science
  Relationship science is exciting stuff. I am very intrigued to discover this work, from Robert Epstein,Ph.D and juxtapose it with the work that Helen Fisher, Ph.D. has done with the science of romantic love, and to teach both to my domestic violence counseling clients.
  Published 30Jan2010, viewed 213 times

• Job Stress Management
  Job stress management is an inside job. What I mean by that is stress physiology and feelings happen inside my body, and are totally unrelated to anything happening in the external world.
  Published 26Jan2010, viewed 218 times

• Stress Management Exercises
  One on my favorite stress management exercises is to ask my counseling and anger management clients to imagine themselves getting up from a really good nights sleep, and to note how refreshed they feel as they pull the covers off, and move their body toward the next right thing to do.
  Published 25Jan2010, viewed 1033 times

• Stress Management Skills
  There is good news about stress management skills. They can be improved, and we have some excellent new technology available that will help with that if you want to go the technology route.
  Published 24Jan2010, viewed 251 times

• Stress Remedy
  My stress remedy always involves a shady spot, a soothing breeze, and a hammock....
  Published 20Jan2010, viewed 407 times

• How to Manage Stress
  How to manage stress is the question of the day.
  Published 18Jan2010, viewed 193 times

• Stress Relaxation Techniques
  Stress relaxation techniques can involve a hammock, can't they? And if it is December where you are, and the snow is about 10 inches deep, like it is here, then the memory of a hammock and a summer breeze, and swaying gently in the shade will be just as effective at changing distress into eustress as any pill, potion, or 87 proof scotch.
  Published 17Jan2010, viewed 196 times

• Workplace Stress Management
  Managing workplace stress is the same as managing driving stress or parenting stress or marital stress, since stress is a physiology which happens inside me after my Central Nervous System responds to a perception/thought I have about the external world.
  Published 16Jan2010, viewed 258 times

• Stress Management
  Stress management to me means learning that the inside of my body is mine to control no matter what is happening outside of it.
  Published 13Jan2010, viewed 164 times

• Stress Management Tips
  Stress management tips generally tend to lean toward the advice kinds of tips, organize your schedule, re-arrange some aspect of your external life, and those are important aspects of stress management tips.
  Published 27Dec2009, viewed 168 times

• Holiday Stress
  Holiday stress could mean holiday eustress or holiday distress.
  Published 07Jan2010, viewed 189 times

• Christmas Stress Relief
  Christmas stress relief happens inside your body? You are sure that Christmas stress isn't done on January 2nd?
  Published 06Jan2010, viewed 433 times

• Holiday Stress Tips
  If you do not actually have a saber tooth tiger leaping towards you, and you are feeling that jittery feeling in your gut, then it is your thought about something (or several things) that is bringing the stress physiology into your body.
  Published 03Jan2010, viewed 171 times

• Holiday Stress Relief
  Holiday stress relief could come from banishing holidays, but there has got to be at least one holiday, maybe Groundhog day, that you like.
  Published 31Dec2009, viewed 233 times

• Holiday Stress Management
  So Black Friday has passed you by, and Cyber Monday is today, and you are behind on your holiday stress management already.
  Published 30Dec2009, viewed 275 times

• Holidays Grief
  Grief is the winter of emotional life, and a holidays grief can be complicated by the season, which has the Norman Rockwell picture of family gathered together to share good cheer.
  Published 30Dec2009, viewed 283 times

• Christmas Stress
  What is Christmas stress? Physiologically it is the same stress that we have about any problem that we perceive to be greater than our resources to handle it.
  Published 27Dec2009, viewed 875 times

• Counseling Self Esteem
  In counseling self esteem, I am reminded of step four in the AA program, which states that the alcoholic needed to make a fearless and thorough moral inventory of themselves in order to determine their defects of character which need to be changed and transformed in order to remain sober.
  Published 17Dec2009, viewed 475 times

• Counseling Children of Divorce
  Counseling children of divorce can be heart rending. But those of us in the field may forget how perceptive children are, how closely attuned to mom and dad's relationship they are.
  Published 16Dec2009, viewed 240 times

• Counseling Students
  So you want to be a counseling student, or perhaps you are a counseling student, looking for some funny stories, or you want to counsel students.
  Published 06Dec2009, viewed 240 times

• How to Improve Brain Power
  How to improve brain power is very much akin to how to improve muscle power.
  Published 01Dec2009, viewed 666 times

• Meditation Thoughts
  Meditation thoughts are a bit of an oxymoron. Meditation is actually about getting beyond thoughts, depending on the tradition.
  Published 01Dec2009, viewed 184 times

• Phone Counselor
  It appears that the key word term "phone counselor" can apply to a number of different situations, one like that described in the job application below. By the way, that job has been filled.
  Published 01Dec2009, viewed 238 times

• Weight Training Over 50
  I like weight training over 50. I like weight training over 60, and the guys at my YMCA who are in their 80's call me "young blood".
  Published 17Nov2009, viewed 364 times

• Father's Guide
  The kid is sneaky? When my son was perhaps five or six, he started asking "why" to every order or request he was given.
  Published 06Nov2009, viewed 97 times

• Diet Counseling
  When I began researching diet counseling, I discovered the usual kinds of research, which evaluated the benefit of face to face educational interventions for reducing heart disease and/or stroke for example.
  Published 04Nov2009, viewed 265 times

• Anger Counseling
  Anger counseling is a many splendored beast. Ever heard that old AA phrase or acronym HALT, for example? The acronym means that we are at greater risk for relapse when we are hungry, angry, lonely, or tired.
  Published 04Nov2009, viewed 378 times

• Improving Memory
  So you are my age, 61, and worried about memory aging? But you are a Boomer and we have grown up with a "can do", "we can change it" kind of mindset, and over the course of your life, you have watched your world change because of choices you and others have made individually or in concert.
  Published 26Oct2009, viewed 194 times

• Nutrition in the Elderly
  Nutrition in the elderly is something I am growing to be concerned with as I get older, especially as it relates to brain fitness.
  Published 14Oct2009, viewed 204 times

• Aging Wellness
  Did you know you grow new brain cells every day? More on that further down. Did you know that you could enhance your brain's capacity to grow those new neurons?
  Published 08Oct2009, viewed 216 times

• Elderly Counseling
  As I get closer to the designation of elderly, or as my 10 year old son says, "the ooooooollllllldddddd man", I am curious about what the counseling field has to say about working with Boomers and elderly counseling.
  Published 08Oct2009, viewed 582 times

• Learning Plasticity
  The principal activities of brains are making changes in themselves."--Marvin L. Minsky (from Society of the Mind, 1986)
  Published 08Oct2009, viewed 426 times

• Emotional Intelligence and Business
  Can a business increase its emotional intelligence and its brain fitness?
  Published 30Sep2009, viewed 468 times

• Parenting Relationships
  Parenting relationships are hard emotionally, and I think the key ingredient in parenting relationships is for the parent to manage their emotions, so that parenting is done from a system rather than an emotion.
  Published 16Sep2009, viewed 251 times

• Parenting Counseling
  Parenting counseling, what does that mean? I am a parent, a late life parent, which has its own built in wisdom and deficiencies when the kids are almost 11 and just turned 5.
  Published 16Sep2009, viewed 256 times

• Positive Psychology Coaching
  Positive psychology coaching has got to start internally with two key components, managing stress and creating brain fitness.
  Published 10Sep2009, viewed 230 times

• The Brain In Love
  You arrive at your buddies house for a barbecue, six pack and bratwurst in hand. It is a spring day and you are still glad that lawn mowing is more needed than snow shoveling. You begin to make your rounds, greeting old friends, insulting their sports allegiances and perhaps their politics as only guys do to guys.
  Published 02Sep2009, viewed 244 times

• Assertive Communication Skills
  We talk a lot, and those conversations, if we use assertive communication skills, can make a big difference in how our relationships go. If I have anything to add to the assertive communication skills dialogue, it is an awareness of how rapidly we change internally based on our perception of and interpretation of nonverbal communications.
  Published 02Sep2009, viewed 4652 times

• Codependence in Relationships
  Codependency in relationships is an interesting concept. I remember when I began to hear about codependency, about 30 years ago, and the first book I remember reading was by Sharon Wegschieder-Cruse called Hope and Health for the Alcoholic Family, and what struck me about her work was the roles that the children took on, including family hero, out of sight, out of mind, and the scapegoat.
  Published 25Aug2009, viewed 234 times

• Codependency Treatment
  My favorite codependency treatment self help tools involve biofeedback, brain fitness, sound and light, education, and reading.
  Published 19Aug2009, viewed 1316 times

• Exercise Over 60
  Exercise over 60 is good for your brain. That is the bottom line for me.
  Published 14Aug2009, viewed 356 times

• How to Increase Your Brain Power
  How to increase your brain power means how to increase two capacities of the human brain, called neurogenesis and neuroplasticity.
  Published 13Aug2009, viewed 260 times

• Counseling Process
  What happens in the counseling process? Is it so mysterious?
  Published 06Aug2009, viewed 377 times

• The Role of Brain Fitness in Self Help Programs
  If you have read Mihalyi Csikszentmihalyi's book FLOW, which is treatise on the psychology of optimal performance, then you know that we process sound, visual, touch, smell, and taste information at the rate of seven bits of data every 1/18th second, so self help programs need to be learned and implemented in a very short period of time. (1/18th second is twice as fast as I can blink my eyes).
  Published 28Jul2009, viewed 225 times

• To Increase Brain Power
  Strategies to increase brain power are the strategies that make it possible for the brain to do more of what it already does, grow new neurons and facilitate effective new connections between neurons.
  Published 17Jul2009, viewed 264 times

• Increase Mind Power
  To increase mind power, that is the question, to paraphrase the bard, and that phrase can mean so many different things to so many diffe
  Published 09Jul2009, viewed 592 times

• Emotional Competence
  Emotional Competence is a learnable competence. My domestic violence mentor, Tony Kubicki, long ago taught me that awareness gives me choice, and that awareness is the key component to emotional competence.
  Published 08Jul2009, viewed 447 times

• Adult Neurogenesis
  Adult neurogenesis is real. We grow new brain cells on a daily basis. When you are my age, 61, that is good news.
  Published 08Jul2009, viewed 435 times

• Neuroplasticity Exercises
  Neuroscientific dogma up until about ten years ago was that past a certain point in our lives, our brain did not change, we had what we had, and that was it. In fact, any change would be that it shrank, actually, as neurons died.
  Published 25Jun2009, viewed 871 times

• Brain Aerobics Software
  Brain aerobics software? Do you remember where you were the first time you heard the word 'aerobic'? I was probably in a saloon, exercising a Saturday afternoon away on the long board, and the bowling machine, while sipping a few too many tall cool ones.
  Published 15Jun2009, viewed 292 times

• Brain Neuroplasticity
  Is it possible to self-direct brain neuroplasticity? As I have explored the concept of brain fitness, two words keep popping up over and over, neuroplasticity and neurogenesis.
  Published 11Jun2009, viewed 430 times

• Brain Fitness for Seniors
  Not sure where you are in the Senior Continuum, but I am 61, which I believe qualifies me. My brain tells me so when it struggles to find just the right word, or when I cannot remember why I just came into a room. Is there such a thing as brain fitness for seniors?
  Published 03Jun2009, viewed 280 times

• Brain Class
  The bell has rung, and brain class has begun. Norman Doidge, MD, and Sharon Begley, authors of "The Brain That Changes Itself" and "Train Your Mind, Change Your Brain" respectively, have made the idea of brain fitness common knowledge, and the marketers are flooding the marketplace with verbiage that seduces and excites.
  Published 27May2009, viewed 301 times

• Brain Health
  Brain Health probably brings to mind images of Sigmund Freud for most folks, and worries about their oedipal complex, whatever that might be.
  Published 24May2009, viewed 378 times

• Brain Walk
  In this day and age of interesting graphics and visuals, the words brain walk conjure up a funny mental image.
  Published 24May2009, viewed 271 times

• Brain Exercise
  The problem: I lost my car keys. What kind of brain exercise will make my brain work better?
  Published 24Apr2009, viewed 477 times

• What Happens In Brain Training Programs Anyway?
  According to Evans and Burghardt, our brains are constantly engaging in an internal recalibration. Our brains use about 20% of our bodies daily fuel requirement, and in an attempt to use it wisely, our brains are constantly building and dismantling circuits inside our heads, the circuits being neurons that fire together when a certain task is undertaken.
  Published 13May2009, viewed 231 times

• Improve Brain Health
  Who would have thought that one could improve brain health? I mean, if I go to the gym and do biceps exercises, or squats, there is a way to measure my progress.
  Published 12May2009, viewed 268 times

• Brain Improve
  Brain improve? Who doesn't want to improve their brain? I mean, almost all advertising in our culture implies that with just a bit more mental oomph, another degree, a harder workout, or this or that potion or pill, you too can own the Mercedes, or the mansion, or be a super hero kind of guy.
  Published 01May2009, viewed 317 times

• Brain Articles
  There are brain articles popping up all over the place, as marketers and scientists and commentators and consumers and writers discover that there are a lot of things we can do to help our brains do what they do so well, process sensory data. But beware.
  Published 27Apr2009, viewed 265 times

• Brain Tips
  Have you been searching for just the right brain tips, the ones that get you a raise, or fame and fortune?
  Published 21Apr2009, viewed 269 times

• Does Cognitive Decline Begin at Age 27?
  Has your Cognitive Decline begun? Are you older than age 27? According to a recent interpretation of Professor Timothy Salthouse's work, cognitive decline has begun for us, in some tests, even earlier than age 27.
  Published 14Apr2009, viewed 264 times

• The Science of Romance?
  Can the science of romance reduce the power and passion of love to brain circuitry? Can the science of love develop a pill that enhances or reduces romance and love? Will Valentine's day become a relic? Will all the books written on the art of seduction become a thing of the past?
  Published 14Apr2009, viewed 290 times

• Brain Classes
  I could see brain classes in community college schedule books soon, perhaps as a continuing education class, and as research continues to advance what we can legitimately claim for brain fitness, perhaps even four year schools or graduate schools would include a brain class, or an improve your brain class.
  Published 08Apr2009, viewed 328 times

• How Do Brain Fitness Exercizes Work?
  It turns out that brain fitness exercises work in at least three ways, depending on the kind of exercise we are doing, a thinking exercise or a physical exercise, or a computerized training.
  Published 01Apr2009, viewed 342 times

• Is the Brain Fitness Program Dull?
  When I think of mental aerobics, I experience a sinking feeling and a thought about drudgery, and research and libraries, and writing term papers.
  Published 19Mar2009, viewed 356 times

• Brain Fitness Kit
  What is in your brain fitness kit? It could impact what is in your wallet as well, to paraphrase the Capital One commercials.
  Published 07Mar2009, viewed 345 times

• Brain Training Program
  Curious about brain training programs? Is there anything to them besides smoke and mirrors? I have been using four of them, and I like them, but here is information from two University of Michigan researchers who offer an e-book which draws on their professional expertise to explain in a humorous way that brain fitness is certainly something we can cultivate.
  Published 07Mar2009, viewed 701 times

• Brain Age Games
  Does brain fitness exercising work for older folks? Just came across some interesting research from Arthur Kramer at the University of Illinois, which buttresses the already steady stream of information about how brain fitness can be improved across the lifespan.
  Published 11Feb2009, viewed 461 times

• Brain Fitness and Your New Year's Resolutions
  The brain is an amazing organ. I cannot pick up a fork to eat my apple pie until the brain makes it possible, no matter how hungry I am. And now we can maximize our brain's fitness to maximize our income, IQ, memory, fluid intelligence, decison making, and yes, even your desire for apple pie can be modified
  Published 03Feb2009, viewed 302 times

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