You love your children, your spouse, your roommates. Still, when you are trying to watch the news on TV and someone you live with makes too much noise for you …
Is Your Bad Habit an Addiction? 4 Questions to Ask Yourself
What’s the difference between a habit and an addiction? For instance, almost everyone these days makes a habit of checking email. When is email-checking a constructive habit, and when has …
Want to Get Rid of Anxiety? 3 Strategies Missing from Most Anti-Anxiety Advice
Want to get rid of anxious feelings, a.s.a.p.? If you have been feeling anxious, no one needs to tell you that anxiety is a profoundly unpleasant feeling. There’s a reason …
Ten Tips for Sustaining Well-Being
Want to get more out of life? Here’s 10 tips for adding to and sustaining feelings of well-being. 1. SPECIALIZE IN GENERATING AND SHARING POSITIVE ENERGY. Gratitude generates joy. How …
Feeling Depressed? Maybe Even With Anti-Depressant Pills? Here’s Why, and What You Can Do
Antidepressant pills definitely do help some people who feel depressed. They often, however, do not help and even cause unfortunate side effects. Fortunately, psychotherapy options are plentiful and effective. The …
How to Calm Down When You Feel Like Clobbering Someone: 8 Essential Anger Control Techniques
When angry feelings begin to bubble up, the risk that you will say or do something that you later regret rises. If you let your anger continue to escalate, watch …
An Open Letter to College Students About An Issue Too Few Students Talk About: Anxiety
A friend of mine, a young author named Jake Heilbrunn, recently published his first book. Jake sent me the following letter to post for college students to read. The letter …
The Hand Map: A Guide to Sustaining Well-being
My new book Prescriptions Without Pills explains where negative feelings come from. It shows also how to return to, and how to sustain, a positive state of well-being. Here’s the …
Preparing for a TEDx Talk: A How-To With 10 Essentials
Preparing for my TEDx talk next month on how to lift depressed feelings without using pills has reminded me of many lessons I have learned over the years about performance, …
TEDx Talk … Coming soon….
“Prescriptions Without Pills for Depression Relief” is the title of the TEDx talk that will be given by Susan Heitler PhD on Wednesday, August 24, 2016 at the 2016 TEDxWilmington …