Porn Nation: Conquering America’s #1 Addiction (Book Review)

Porn Nation: Conquering America’s #1 Addiction
by Michael Leahy
Review by Dr. Anthony Centore
Who is Michael Leahy? I’ve never heard of him. His bio says little about him. The “About Us” section of his website says nothing about him, or his organization, “BraveHearts” (is there really an organization?). While he mentions Oprah in his Bio, it’s a [...]

Desperate Marriages: Moving Toward Hope and Healing in Your Relationship (Book Review)

Desperate Marriages:
Moving Toward Hope and Healing in Your Relationship
by
Gary Chapman
Review by
Anthony J. Centore Ph.D.
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After Gary Chapman wrote the International Best Seller The Five Love Languages, myriad of spinoffs were published: The Five Love Languages of Children, The Five Love Languages of Teenagers, The Five Love Languages for Singles, The Heart of the [...]

The Online Counseling Myth: What Online Counseling WONT Do for your Therapy Practice

Being a spokesperson for the online therapy field, I have, every week for the past several years, received calls from counselors who have recently listed their name and practice information on an online counseling website (such as eCounseling.com), or who are having someone build them an online counseling website of their own. I usually meet [...]

Weight Loss: How to Curb Emotional Eating and Food Cravings

Emotional eating is the process of consuming foods (often high calorie, fatty foods) as a way to cope with personal stress and duress.
Effective ways of curbing the habit of emotional eating involve finding new, healthier, methods of coping with—or altering—one’s emotional state. At Thrive Counseling, we have discovered that the following basic strategies are helpful [...]

5 Things you must do to protect your kids from school violence

School should be a safe place of learning from teachers instead of a scary place where shootings and violence bring emergency workers and grief counselors. The recent number of horrifying acts of violence in schools has everyone concerned, from the President to local school and law enforcement officials. However, the best group to take positive [...]

Relationship Stressors Video: Tips for Relationship Intimacy

This is a decent video about how a good relationship can go bad. It is less than 5 minutes long, and references some of the findings of Marriage and Relationship researcher John Gottman.
Relationship Stressors Video

Emotional Eating: Steps for Overcoming Food Cravings

Emotional eating is the process of consuming foods (often high calorie, fatty foods) as a way to cope with personal stress and duress.
Effective ways of curbing the habit of emotional eating involve finding new, healthier, methods of coping with—or altering—one’s emotional state.
1) Alternative Enjoyable Activities. We turn to [...]

Not Counseling: Students in the 8th Grade Reach Sexual Recording when Dialing a Depression Hotline

8th Graders at a school in Massachusetts were given a phone number to a Depression Hotline. However, the hotline changed their number, and what the students heard was a recording for a phone sex hot line.
How are parents to react to this? Is laughter good therapy? Or is this a serious oversight by the [...]

Suicide? Elderly Couple Dissapears from Cruise Ship

An elderly couple disappeared from a cruise ship, their door locked from the inside with a “do not disturbed” tag hanging from the door. Authorities are trying to determine, is this suicide, or a something else?
Research, including the June 14 issue of The Archives of Internal Medicine, indicate that elderly persons are at a higher [...]

The Science of Scrumptious

Do we eat to live, or live, in part, to dig into that second helping of banana cream pie? Since the 1930s, nutritionists have believed in “the wisdom of the body,” the idea that we are programmed to eat precisely what we need to keep our bodies supplied with the right balance of nutrients and [...]