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Do This When Dealing with a Difficult Person
Over a decade ago, I wrote a post about dealing with a difficult person for my Psychology Today Prescriptions for Life Blog: “Don’t Try to Reason with Unreasonable People“. It’s the most popular piece I’ve ever written. A year prior,…
Non-Sleep Deep Rest Can Replace Sleep and Lower Anxiety
I’ve had insomnia on and off since I can remember. It got worse in the last decade, due to a combination of a difficult life situation and, I assumed, getting older. A particularly hard season found me waking up at 3 am, unable to fall back asleep. The less you…
The Surprising Antidote for Loneliness at Work
As a doctor obsessed with whole human well-being for more than two decades, I was touched and encouraged to witness another physician, Dr. Vivek Murthy, the U.S. Surgeon General, sounding the alarm on “Our Epidemic of Loneliness and Isolation.” I watched him tour the…
