Emily Laurence is a journalist, freelance writer and certified health coach living in Raleigh, North Carolina. She specializes in writing about mental health, healthy aging and overall wellness. For ...

If Instagram is your therapist, you may have been led to believe that if someone strongly disagrees with your point of view, then they are gaslighting you. As a psychotherapist, I have heard this term ...

Behavioral activation is an approach to mental health that involves someone using behaviors to influence their emotional state. It is often a part of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), but it can ...

As we were wrapping up a strategic planning discussion with one of our clients—a major accounting and advisory firm—the firm’s managing partner turned to us and asked, “What would really change the ...

I wrote Part I of this post last Friday (though I didn't know it was Part I at the time). The comments it generated made me realize that you'd like more information about how to do this -- that is, ...

When you call a business meeting, how many times do you think about the ethical issues you are discussing? Ethical issues are part of even the smallest business concerns. For example, though you may ...