I recently picked up a copy of Virtually You: The Dangerous Powers of the E-Personality at my local library. The author is a psychiatrist by the name of Elias Aboujaoude who is currently serving as the director at the Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Clinic at the Stanford University School of Medicine. The thesis of Aboujaoude’s book [...]

Our beliefs about reality have a huge impact on how we think, feel, and behave on a daily basis. In this article, I describe the various factors that can influence our beliefs, and how we can adjust this “map of reality” so that we can live in better accord with our values and goals. Beliefs [...]

There is no doubt in my mind that many men and women live their lives with very low self-esteem. They think that they are inadequate in achieving their own dreams, goals, and values; thus, they find themselves in a constant state of self-pity, disappointment, or even self-hate. The problem with this view is that it [...]