Follow Alison's regular blog at Psychology Today by clicking on the links below. You will find lively updates and insightful, new ideas.
| December 29, 2011 | One Thing Leads to Another |
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When we look at the year just passed and face the results of the choices we have made, positive or negative, we may find that we are not so pleased with what we see. Read More |
| December 24, 2011 | Seasonal Suffering: The Sting of Expectations |
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Our expectations of what is true and what will be true are the product of the stories we create about our lives. They are not the same as what is actually happening. Read More |
| November 20, 2011 | Habits of Mind: The Flavors of Our Experience |
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Our experience is simply a group of sensations until we filter our experience through one of our habits of mind. Then it acquires a flavor. Read More |
| November 3, 2011 | Anxiety: A Modern Plague |
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What are major causes of this plague and what can we do about them? Most of us experience significant anxiety at one point or another in our lives. Read More |
| October 11, 2011 | The Benefits of Restraint |
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We may think of restraint as some desperate force holding back the flood of greed, but no force is necessary, only practice. Restraint is a practice our bodies already know. Read More |
| All of Alison's blog postings can be found here at Psychology Today. | |






