Resilience is a big deal, but it’s mostly misunderstood. Here are three things you need to know about resilience before we get to the unicorns and horse crap: Resilience (or lack thereof) is not something new–it’s always been an issue. Also, start...
About a year ago, every night, I put together a solid three-month stretch of reading Maurice Sendak’s classic “Where The Wild Things Are” to my youngest. It was the only book she’d let me read to her for a while. I didn’t mind it at all. I love that book. Always...
Yesterday morning was particularly beautiful as the sun broke upon the Wasatch mountains. The frigid February air brought a sharpness to the cool hues of blue, purple, and pink outside my bedroom window. With the painful reality of a recent school shooting in Florida...
No one really knows when the first version of “The Trolley Dilemma” appeared in text or college courses in ethics and psychology. Though some trace it back to the turn of the 20th century, in the 1960’s, Phillipa Foot is credited with the most widely recognized...
Believe it or not, we (geeky school psychologists, social workers, professors, and clinical psychologists) sometimes meet for lunch. Sometimes, while eating lunch, we will compare notes, talk about stressors from work or rewarding efforts. On a rare occasion, if we’re...
