Sitemap - 2024 - Humanity’s Values

End of Year Special

Identity too Often Trumps Decency

Mental Health through an Integrated Lens

Pathologizing Normal Human Behavior

Expanding Awareness Means Wrestling with Cognitive Dissonance

Stop Setting Goals, Live from Values

Our Relationship Desires Spark Our Biases

Decisions are Embedded in the Matrix of Our Bodies and Relationships

Disagreement is Not A Mental Health Issue

Being Present in the Space of Grief

Why Hate Feels so Good and What To Do About It

Everything Has Changed. Nothing Has Changed.

Here, There, Everywhere: How Our Attention is Split and What to Do About It

Online Dialogue is Basically Just Projection

Being Thankful for the Present

Weighing Others through Judgment and Finding Them Wanting

We Are Relationally Embedded Creatures, Celebrate the Differences that Bring Us Together

You Are Not the Sum of Your Parts

An Appreciation of Chance and Luck Can Support the Practice of Gratitude

Boundaries Tell People Who We Want To Be, Consequences Show What We're Willing to Do to Support It

The Path of Your Life is Bound within and Encouraged by Relationships

What are your feet doing? Grounding Yourself Helps Expand Self-Awareness

Value-Based Goals: How to Get the Results You Want Now

Story-Making is How We Define our Values for Ourselves and With Others

Values are the Social Bedrock of Our Emotional Assessments

Self-Control and the Relationship with Our Future Self

Competing Values As a Form of Cognitive Dissonance

Walking with Depression

Success Isn't Pie, Celebrating the Wins of Another is Sharing in their Humanity

On the Normalcy and Pathology of Delusional Thinking

Beliefs as Actions Supporting an Identity

Our Identities Give Structure to Engage in Social Relationships

Freedom is Found in Identifying Influences, Not in Obsessing Over Consequences

Complicating Ockham: Simplicity as Confirmation Bias

Life Is a Learning Process of Creating the Whole from Parts

Sharing Humanity within Conflict

Anxiety is Obnoxious, Words are Often Unhelpful, and Mindful Acceptance Can Help

Military Service, Moral Injury, and How We Do Not Live in a Just World

Hope and Despair Come Down to the Same Thing: Magical Thinking

Perspective Binds the World We Live in By Hiding the Process of its Creation

Violence is the Last Gasp of Moral Breakdown

The Lure of Fanaticism

Living Through the Maps of Your Mind

Theory Supports Practice: Mental Health Therapists Have Assumptions

Biases Reach Conclusions but We Should Still Question How We Got There

Addressing Compassion Fatigue without Succumbing To Toxic Anger

Group Identity Helps Explain How We Hold Contradictory Beliefs

Loneliness and the Need for Human Connection

Finding Our Own Character in Stories

Navigating Failure Should be at the Center of Psychotherapy

Removing the Negative from Negative Emotions

How Mood Changes Perception

Psychotherapy Isn't What You Think It is

Perspective Guides Life's Possibility

Master Your Placebo

Cognitive Dissonance is a Natural Human State

Creating God Through Community and Values

When Persecution Isn’t: The Technological Expansion of Ego

Transference Isn't Just In Therapy

Embracing the Fetishes of Humanity

Relational Dependency: Humanity or Pathology

The Power of Touch, the Immediacy of Presence

Personal Interests Are Always Followed

The Expectation of Memory

Living In A World Unaligned With Your Desire

The Lure of the Mob

Weaving Together Our Attachments

Empathy: How We Form Our Relationships

Atheism vs Theism: A Debate Over Emptiness

Behavior Is Not Freedom

Learn to Empower Your Life: Identify Values and Strengthen Beliefs

Faith Is A Matter of Personal Identity

Free Thought, Free Society

A Context for Every Self

Consequences are Inevitable, Learn From Them

Our Mind Provides A God To Be Filled In

Accepting and Rebounding from Failure

The Support of Evangelicals for Trump is About Identifying with Martyrdom

The Endowment of Purpose in Human Work

Values-Based Actions vs Outcome-Based Goals

The Trap of Authenticity