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Family Therapy Books I Recommend to Individual Therapists
A few weeks ago, one of my posts received a comment that was worth a whole post: I am also a therapist (though I’m still in training). I’m wondering if you would be willing/able to recommend some...
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Damasio’s Six Facts for a Theory of Consciousness to Contend With
I’ve just begun reading Antonio Damasio’s The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness. I bought the book while I was in grad school, knowing it would be years before I...
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Planet Money’s Six-Plank Economic Platform
I’ve listened to 247 podcasts of Planet Money over the last several years–about 80 hours. This show is the best way I’ve found way to learn about economics in fun, thought-provoking, 20-minute bursts....
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Dear President Obama
Congratulations on winning a second term. I was really pulling for you. I even gave money to your campaign, breaking a lifelong rule. I used to think that the person in the presidency did not make a...
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Decoding the Right-Hand Wedding Ring
I was washing my hands at work two months ago when my wedding ring slipped off my finger and fell into the sink. I grabbed it before it went down the drain, but it took some luck. I’d just gotten over...
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My Musical Checklist
One of the last books I read before starting to work full time was Atule Gawande’s Checklist Manifesto, on the recommendation of my friend Joe Dillon. It was really good and I’ll pass the...
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Some Things I’ve Learned From Wearing “Barefoot Shoes”
I’ve been wearing “barefoot shoes” for about six years now and they have taught me a few things about feet and shoes in general: 1) We need shoes. No matter how adapted our bare feet are to forest...
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An Argument for Beck’s “Guero” as the Holy Grail of Rock and Roll Records
Beck’s Guero is the record that made me realize there is indeed a Holy Grail of rock and roll records—a record that rock and roll has been reaching for but never fully achieving for at least my...
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I Mostly Sit For a Living. How About You?
We tend to think and talk about our jobs in terms of what we produce, not what we do. In some ways, this is misleading. I am a therapist for military families in southern California, so I produce...
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2014: The Good Parts List
On New Year’s Eve I found myself thinking what a crappy year 2014 had been. Too many people I loved had died and/or almost died. And a bunch of other stuff. To counteract this mood, I went through my...
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Structural Insomnia: What it is and how to avoid it
I get to think and talk about insomnia a lot, because it is such a common symptom in my therapy clients (at least three-quarters of them) and because I’ve had plenty of it myself over the years. (Here...
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