Emotional Health | Women's Voices For Change

Retiring and Unretiring: Blessing or Curse?

By Cecilia M. Ford, Ph.D.

A feeling of purpose is not a need that can be put to rest with retirement. Many people of retirement age are choosing to delay it or even go back into the workforce after retiring.

Emotional Health

Knowing Your Value: When to Stay, When to Leave

By Cecilia M. Ford, Ph.D.

If you don’t value yourself, you are vulnerable to staying too long in a bad situation.

Emotional Health · Health

Suicide Rate Increasing For Women In Middle Age

By Megan Riddle, M.D. Ph.D. MS

Suicide rates among U.S. women has climbed steadily over the past decade and has peaked among women age 45 to 64.

Emotional Health · Marriage & Life Partners

Is Living with You a Bed of Roses?
Six Garden Analogies for Self-Improvement

By Cecilia M. Ford, Ph.D.

What are you are like to live with? Is it a “bed of roses” to be your partner or spouse? Are there dangerous thorns lurking beneath the sheets?

Emotional Health

Getting Healthy: Self-love and Self-care

By Cecilia M. Ford, Ph.D.

If more of us practiced healthy self-care then a less selfish and less angry world would follow.

Emotional Health

The Best Christmas Party Ever!

By Cecilia M. Ford, Ph.D.

Although I am essentially an extrovert, I am not entirely crazy about parties. My understanding of parties changed in 1979 when I did a yearlong internship at a state mental hospital in the South Bronx.

Emotional Health

Accepting Imperfection by Embracing Flaws

By Cecilia M. Ford, Ph.D.

We have to be aware that as 21st century women, we are especially vulnerable to the distortions of our digital culture emphasizing that a woman is only as valuable as she is pretty.

Emotional Health

Intelligence: What Does it Mean to be, Like, Really Smart

By Cecilia M. Ford, Ph.D.

Very intelligent people rarely talk about how smart they are. They are aware of it, but recognize it as a gift, one that must be cultivated. And besides, they are too busy learning new things.

Emotional Health · Family & Friends

Gift-Giving: How Can I Stop Overspending

By Cecilia M. Ford, Ph.D.

“Our family has always had such a good time being together at Christmas, and I don’t want things to change, though I see that they must. What should I do?”

Emotional Health

Holiday Gifts That Don’t Cost Anything

By Megan Riddle, M.D. Ph.D. MS

This holiday season, I would like to offer five gifts you may consider giving yourself. They don’t cost anything but may leave you feeling merrier this holiday season.