Among my strongest tools to combat depression is distraction, and one of the best distractions is watching a movie. Watching the right movie has an antidepressant effect, as it relieves the brain of the obsessive, ruminating, self-defeating loop for two consecutive hours. The brain can readjust a little during those 120 minutes and is a...

The following are a few of my favorites quotes I go to when I’m depressed. They inspire me to take it 15 minutes at a time and give me a dose of hope. Truly, it is in the darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest...

Psychologist Elaine Aaron discusses the need for personal space for highly sensitive types in her bestseller, “The Highly Sensitive Person.” Now her claim comes with specific numbers of just how much space is needed The space surrounding the body (known by scientists as ‘peripersonal space’), which has previously been thought of as having a gradual...

In a recent feature on the website, Upwave, Valerie Reiss lists eight health benefits of kissing: Kissing helps reduce blood pressure Kissing zaps cramps and headaches Kissing fights cavities Kissing amps up your happy hormones Kissing burns calories Kissing boosts self-esteem Kissing can give you a facelift (kind of) Kissing is a barometer for sexual...

How do you learn to go gentle on yourself? Where do you begin to teach self-love? I asked a favorite blogger of mine, Margarita Tartakovsky, who is Associate Editor at Psych Central, and the author of the blog Weightless. Margarita writes often on this topic, so I thought I’d pick her brain and dispense her...