Less is More and None Can Be Most
Take a step back or ten steps back. Don’t keep adding. Start taking things out of your life. If you [...]
Make Better Career Decisions
Making decisions is hard. Why is that? Because any choice we confront that is easy to make – because one [...]
Boredom 2022
Boredom is a common aspect of human life. Varied and even contradictory understandings about it abound. As Jon Kabat-Zinn said, [...]
When the Lifeworld Diminishes
In today’s post I discuss the concept of the lifeworld and how it is relevant to psychiatric understanding and care. [...]
Your Career Over Time 2022
Since our focus is on “Your Independence Day,” today I cover the topic of managing one’s career over the entirety [...]
Get Another Degree or Not? 2022
Over the years I’ve received many questions and requests for my thoughts on whether a clinician should pursue additional advanced [...]
Strategies to Avoid Burnout
Take a centering moment before every patient appointment. Stand there alone in the hall or your office, for the length [...]
Focusing Questions for Deeper Life Engagement
Too many people live in a state of chronic lack, experiencing prominent dissatisfaction, emptiness, disenchantment, estrangement, directionlessness, pointlessness, or lack [...]