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Can Happily Married People Be Unfaithful?

By Cecilia M. Ford, Ph.D.

Affairs have the advantage of having uncertainty baked in. And often, that is the very thing that keeps it going, according to Perel: “It is a poetic interlude in a prosaic life . . . . Because we cannot have our lover, we keep wanting.”

Emotional Health

Read All About It: The Danger of Getting It Wrong

By Cecilia M. Ford, Ph.D.

If there is no generally agreed upon consensus about basic facts, what good is information that is presented as truth? How do we determine what is true and who can be trusted?

Emotional Health

Harvey and Beyond: Coping with Disaster

By Cecilia M. Ford, Ph.D.

What can we do, when faced with trauma, to increase our chances of bouncing back?

Emotional Health

Mobs, Bullying, and American Values

By Cecilia M. Ford, Ph.D.

Bullies are usually insecure and scared. By targeting others who are perceived weaker than they are, they imagine themselves stronger and tougher, able to fend off feelings of insecurity.

Emotional Health

Anxiety In America’s New Political Climate

By Dr. Patricia Yarberry Allen and Megan Riddle, Ph.D., M.S

The American Psychological Association found that more than half of all Americans cited the political climate as a very or somewhat significant source of stress.

Emotional Health

How to Understand Hate

By Cecilia M. Ford, Ph.D.

The origins of hatred and its ability to spread as if the Devil had tossed a cigarette into dried underbrush is a subject that has preoccupied psychologists, sociologists, and historians for much of the last 70 years.

Marriage & Life Partners · Relationships & Dating

Is This Love?

By Cecilia M. Ford, Ph.D.

The science of romance isn’t “romantic,” but focuses instead on practical issues. Research confirms that believing in soul mates—or destiny, “the idea that there is exactly one person you were absolutely put on this earth to find—can and probably will backfire.”

Books · Emotional Health

Man’s Search for Meaning

By Cecilia M. Ford, Ph.D.

The most helpful insight of Viktor Frankl, psychiatrist and Holocaust survivor: “Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.”

Emotional Health

How Do I look? The Body Positive Movement

By Cecilia M. Ford, Ph.D.

There is a movement that has sprung up called “Body Positive.” It is meant to be a response to the widespread “fat-shaming” that is both ubiquitous and widely accepted.

Emotional Health

Healthy Weight Control: Is it Possible?

By Cecilia M. Ford, Ph.D.

Isn't it possible to be on a diet, especially a weight loss diet, without becoming preoccupied in an unhealthy way with restricting your eating, controlling your weight, or, worse, developing a dangerous eating disorder?

Emotional Health

Fourth of July: Freedom, Fireworks, and Fathers

By Cecilia M. Ford, Ph.D.

Summer has always been a time for fathers to spend time with their children, and there is no holiday—other than Father’s Day itself—that is more dominated by Dad than July Fourth.

Emotional Health

Barbara Corcoran, Positive Thinker—The Secret Sauce of Success

By Cecilia M. Ford, Ph.D.

Striving to do your best is a worthwhile goal, but perfection in all things is impossible. Worse, it is a destructive goal.

Family & Friends · Health

Memorial Day: A Day To Remember Those Who Died In Active Military Service and Those Left Traumatized

By Patricia Yarberry Allen, M.D.

There are those of us who mourn those who returned to lives that were never fully lived due to post traumatic stress.These men, in their 80s and 90s, still talked about the recurring nightmares, the unexpected flashbacks, the isolation that they had endured after the war was over.

Emotional Health · Family & Friends

Being A Mother — The Role of A Lifetime

By Cecilia M. Ford, Ph.D.

Motherhood causes a shift in identity that may occur suddenly, but remains stubbornly in place ever after.

Emotional Health · Family & Friends

Adult Children and Stepmothers: Cinderella 2.0?

By Cecilia M. Ford, Ph.D.

Elderly men are easy targets for schemers, both in relationships and in business. But they are particularly vulnerable to caretaking women. On the other hand, while the fairy-tale-version stepmother has enormous power, in real life she often feels as if she has none.

Women's Voices For Change

Articles onEmotional Health

Can Happily Married People Be Unfaithful?

Read All About It: The Danger of Getting It Wrong

Harvey and Beyond: Coping with Disaster

Mobs, Bullying, and American Values

Anxiety In America’s New Political Climate

How to Understand Hate

Is This Love?

Man’s Search for Meaning

How Do I look? The Body Positive Movement

Healthy Weight Control: Is it Possible?

Fourth of July: Freedom, Fireworks, and Fathers

Barbara Corcoran, Positive Thinker—The Secret Sauce of Success

Memorial Day: A Day To Remember Those Who Died In Active Military Service and Those Left Traumatized

Being A Mother — The Role of A Lifetime

Adult Children and Stepmothers: Cinderella 2.0?

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