Peak Self: Pop Culture Insights for the High-Performing Mind

Welcome to the archive of my Psychology Today Blog where I blend clinical rigor with pop culture analysis to make complex psychological work accessible and actionable.

thanksgiving post

A Simple Way To Beat The Thanksgiving Blues

Sex from dusk till dawn

Sex from Dusk Till Dawn

Kathy Griffin

Is Anger The Kathy Griffin Of Emotions?

detective

Saving Detective Goren: First, Diffuse Worst Fear

Anxiety solution and freedom from fear and escape from tortured thinking and depression concept as a group of tangled barbwire or barbed wire fence shaped as a human head breaking free as a metaphor for psychological or psychiatric icon.

3 Steps To Unlock The Power Of Bad Feelings

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Laugh At Your Own Risk

Charlie and the psychic time bomb, part II — what Charlie Sheen can teach

Charlie and the Psychic Time Bomb Part II: What Charlie Sheen can teach us about Love

Charlie and the psychic time bomb

Charlie and the Psychic Time Bomb

VanGogh Painting of depressed man

Sadness Gone Mad