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… Meeting Your Basic Needs – “Don’t Stop ‘Til You Get Enough”

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… Where Does Addiction Go?

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… “Deck the Halls” and Check Yourself

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… Neurochemistry of Gratitude

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… Hey Jealousy

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… You’re Out. Now What?

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… On Suffering