Weight Loss, Emotions, and Coca Cola.

Let’s back it up 50 years. When, believe it or not you whippersnappers, we had soft drink machines in the schools and rode school buses instead of walking ten miles through the snow. There were no diet drinks. We had dessert after meals.

And there was no weight loss industry.  MysteryShrink, while pretty nutty, isn’t nutty enough to take on explaining the difference... Read more

Tags: anxiety and weight, jenny craig, keeping the weight off, nutrisystem, thinking diet, weight loss, Anxiety, Anxiety Management, diet

Being Yourself is Over-rated.

Warning! Warning!

The following concerns five-year-old Dena, a contestant on, yes, Toddlers and Tierras (I have no pride. And a touch of insomnia.) If you can’t get past the ueck! There’s always later. No wait... Read more

Tags: Anxiety, Anxiety Management

Because change is so flipping hard, that’s why. MysteryShrink is my “pay it forward.” Someone should benefit, even a little, from my training and hard knocks... Read more

Tags: Anxiety, Anxiety Management, Better Relationships, Calm, Compulsive Behavior, Counseling, Emotional Development, Free Therapy, Happy, Humor, Improvement, Less Anxious, Pay it forward, Personal Change, Psychologist, Relationships, Self Esteem, Self Image, Stress, Stress and Disease, Stress Management

Psychologists learn to treat disorders and solve “issues,” but those goals don’t even touch on the real problem. I call it the “what goes on in the chest cavity” problem, namely the anxiety with us at all times. How we feel, whether or not we’re having any fun. Now, some anxiety is good... Read more

Tags: Anxiety, Anxiety Management, Baylor Medical Center, Baylor Medical Neuroscience, Better Relationships, Big Shrimp, Dallas Museum of Art, David Eagleman, Dr. David Eagleman, Emotional Development, Improvement, Personal Change, Relationships, Stress, Stress and Disease, Stress Management, Sum

Emotional Weenie Alert! If, when you read the title to this column, your first thought was about someone else you think should change, please step to the front of the line... Read more

Tags: Anxiety, Anxiety Management, Better Relationships, Bowen Family Systems Theory, Couples Therapy, Dating, Depression, Emotion, Emotional Development, Family, Feelings, Improvement, Internship, Love, Marriage, Marriage Counseling, Parents, Personal Change, Private Practice, Psychologist, Psychology, Relationships, Self Help, Stress, Stress and Disease, Stress Management, Survivors, Teabag, Teapots, Therapy, University of Texas