For a few years, I believed that what we often call “the rational mind” was my enemy.  I have a powerful rational mind, and most people would see this as a plus, but to me that was part of the problem.  I thought all the analysis, judgment and criticism my mind did was holding me [...]

(This is a further exploration of the ideas in my article a few months back at Urban Monk, “Are Your ‘Projections’ Limiting Your Success?”.  This piece is about how we can learn about ourselves from the ways we criticize others, and “project” the parts of our personalities we’re uncomfortable with onto them.)
To me, one fascinating [...]

I wrote an article a while back about how, ultimately, many of our anxieties can be traced back to a single fear—the fear of annihilation, or nonexistence.  I described a few exercises we can use to grasp this fact at a deep, visceral level.  In this article, I’ll talk about a method I’ve used to [...]

One of my former clients—I’ll call him John—is a respected, highly-paid attorney.  John worked in several different legal positions—at a law firm, in a government office and finally at a nonprofit organization—and in each job his work was well-received.  However, John had a problem that doggedly pursued him from one job to the next.  Everywhere [...]