1. Denial: When we first decide we want to lose weight, we will go through denial or what I like to call, excuses. This is when we try to convince ourselves that we are not worthy of being thin and... Read more >>

So on Friday, I felt a bit worse for wares. My period hadn’t come and I was now a day late. Feeling a bit off in the morning I announced, “Well, this is going... Read more >>

“What the hell happened?” In the mirror was the disturbed look from a tired, balding, scarred unrecognizable face. I close my eyes to see the person I once was … the pretty,... Read more >>

“I can’t believe this is happening to me,” said the CEO on the other end of my phone line. “They just offered me a contract extension and three months later they’re... Read more >>

A woman goes to the hospital complaining of stomach pains and ends up delivering a healthy—albeit totally unexpected—bouncing bundle of joy. She didn’t even know she was pregnant.... Read more >>

Any time we’re confronted with uncomfortable or troubling information, our minds try to process it in a way that preserves our psychological identity… Read more >>

Some time ago, my younger brother asked me to spend some time explaining our childhood to his long-term girlfriend, who I consider to be my sister-in-law. He said that he had told her about it,... Read more >>

We all use denial to keep experiences, facts, feelings, or beliefs that would most likely overwhelm or disrupt us out of our everyday consciousness. Because the mind functions like a machine,... Read more >>

Fighting with health insurance companies has to be one of the most unsavory tasks around. When I worked in a cancer clinic, we had one woman whose sole job was to talk, negotiate, beg, and plead with... Read more >>

I would consider trying Botox just to give my forehead a break.  After all the holiday hoopla and the year-end reflection, followed by New Year’s resolutions, I’m eyebrows... Read more >>