I can say, I knew you when”, “Now that you’ve hit the big time….” were just two of the comments that a number of people who caught the recent piece that ABC’s 20-20 featured highlighting the work that we do. Want to know the truth?
My experience has been that media exposure such as this; local, [...]
High self-esteem is good, right? What possible good would a lack of confidence do for me? In the past few decades, much attention has been given to the value of high self-esteem. We try to raise our self-esteem through workshops, affirmations, school programs and outlawing the use of red ink in grading papers, cooperative games [...]
During an interview for the ABC “20/20” special, Juju Chang, the correspondent who narrated the segments, asked me if I thought the financial crisis that has touched each of us and the rest of the world would “change America”. She meant, would we save more? Would we do less risky things? Would we [...]
Earlier this month Brad and I met at ABC studios on Columbus Square in the middle of Manhattan for a late morning/early afternoon filming of follow-up interviews with ABC News’s Juju Chang for an upcoming story that will air on ABC News’s “20/20.” The purpose was to fill in some of the blanks from the [...]
We became interested in the psychology of money after I had a traumatic event. I lost half of my money in the Technology Bubble burst in 2000. It hurt. The impact of that event led me on a path of self-discovery, where I questioned how an intelligent and well-educated psychologist could make such an enormous [...]
I was recently reading my favorite magazine, “The Sun”. Something I read made me think, “What if we were already in heaven?” Right here. Right now. I know, I know, a pretty weird thought, but just let me talk about it for a minute. Allow me to think about [...]
Last fall I led a “spirituality” retreat in the sacred (to the Native People) Black Hills of South Dakota. Each day we built our activities around a different theme.
As you might imagine the week was filled with sharing with each other the important spiritual experiences in our lives. One of the ladies told [...]
Most of us spend our day thinking about the past or ruminating about the future. Do you let your past define you? Do you suffer the emotional burden of shame, resentment, or disappointment from a past you can’t change? Or, do you live in the future? Are you consumed with worries, anxieties or apprehensions about [...]
I recently watched the DVD, “The Wrestler” with a friend of mine. I found it to be a very moving and poignant experience. As we finished the movie I asked him, what he thought of it. He said, “It was one of the worst I have seen in a while”. I [...]
One of my favorite places on this earth is the Black Hills of South Dakota. Margie and I moved there in 1992, but had been visiting the area on a regular basis since 1984, and had driven through a few times in the years before that.
Six months after moving there, I was flying [...]
