What are the ingredients for wellness? If you knew, you wouldn’t be here, and I wouldn’t have a job. Bummer for both of us. For nutrition and physical wellness you have the food pyramid, for mental wellness there’s Maslow’s hierarchy....

In early stages of treatment it’s likely that you’ll hear and/or be warned of cross-addiction, maybe even getting the seasoned “Whack-A-Mole” allegory. Is this an inevitability? Can you/we escape the cross-addiction quagmire? What do/should you watch for, and what support...

I was first introduced to the idea of “Christmas as a bad thing” by the somber female protagonist in the movie Gremlins. Since then, I’ve noticed a general holiday dread ranging from frantic shopping and family gathering montages in films...

What makes up gratitude? Gratitude, like happiness or even love, is something that for many of us “just happens,” with or without much intent. If this is the case, why “ruin it” by examining its constituent parts or trying to...

Where there is desire, there is jealousy, potentially. Is it inevitable? As with most things it depends on who you ask? For the sake of argument and analysis let’s assume that it does. When is it most likely to occur,...

You're Out. Now What? A common clinical phenomenon has dawned on me just in advance of October 11, National Coming Out Day. I’ve encountered a number of gay men that are newly out in a bustling yet overlapping/six degrees of...

This hopefully will be one in a series of discussions on mindfulness philosophies because guess what? Suffering never goes away. Most people, myself included, have buried their heads in the sand or tried to actively fight and control this inevitability....