In just a 5-minute span of glancing at the newspaper today I read two very different accounts about the dark side of our unfettered ability to put information out there whenever we see fit. The internet sometimes feels like a latter day Salem. The first was about Reddit offering up an apology for its role [...]
Marissa Meyer, Sheryl Sandberg – we don’t play in the same sandbox by any stretch – but their wealth and visibility give them a chance to make noise about an issue that the rest of us continue to struggle with daily. Women getting ahead. Women having it all. Women leading. So why don’t we “lean [...]
How much regulation is too much? (a) do we regulate ALL vices – including potato chips and alcohol, and make them inaccessible? OR (b) do we make ALL vices available – alcohol, drugs, burgers, gambling, sex (sounds like Vegas to me……)? The problem is that we do a hybrid and since we aren’t transparent about [...]
“Let’s go out for cupcakes,” he said. Seems innocuous, in fact, downright sweet. However, my friend was getting pretty bummed out. She likes the guy, it’s a new relationship, but she also has been working hard on a physical training regimen, and on losing weight. And it hasn’t been easy. She likes him, but would [...]
At a recent book signing I had an eye-opening experience. I am a first time author, so book signings still leave me with stars in my eyes and good feelings. You Are WHY You Eat takes on weight loss and health in an iconoclastic way – no prescriptions on what to eat, no magic promises [...]
As a psychologist and psychology professor who has been teaching Abnormal Psychology classes for over a decade – the Lance Armstrong interview and subsequent coverage reminded me of how naïve we are as a culture and how the media loves both demonizing and profiteering off of the diagnosis of our time. Narcissism. It’s so simple, [...]
As an Indian girl, you figure it out young. Girls are at the bottom of the food chain, boys get a pass by dint of being boys. Women should keep their mouths shut or whisper, men can say what they want. Blind duty and obedience defined a “good woman” and anything else would bring shame. [...]
This New Year I want you to take a moment and reflect on how much of your life is really your own and how much your life is being conducted solely in the service of others. Are you in a job that satisfies you or is it for your father? Are you in a relationship [...]
December 21, 2012. I awoke at dawn – struggling against my own demons, waiting for the conflagration, for the “end of days”. I was met with a pink sunrise that set the eucalyptus trees outside my window afire in every shade of violet– but certainly no end of days. I am guessing that the Mayans [...]
We are looking for answers. We aren’t going to find them. Lots of folks I respect in the field are pulling out some compelling data – but we need to look at the data altogether, in a complex quilt, and not just one piece at a time. And there are lots of anecdotes out there [...]