by Dr. Dan | Jul 24, 2020 | Uncategorized
I want to keep growing stronger during this pandemic period. I don’t want to be the kind of psychologist who can only live vicariously through the growth of his clients. I want to practice what I preach—even though I don’t do much preaching. My downside as a...
by Dr. Dan | Jul 17, 2020 | Uncategorized
I try to tell myself reassuring things during these worrisome times. The most common thing I will tell myself is: things are going to be okay. I tell myself this because most of our worries relate to things not being okay. Most worries are about the future. They...
by Dr. Dan | Jul 10, 2020 | Uncategorized
I was listening today to No One Knows by the Nigerian-French singer Asa. It’s a song about a weatherman who is reluctant to make predictions, insisting that, “no one knows tomorrow.” It must be a hard time for weather people—not because of the pandemic or the racial...
by Dr. Dan | Jul 3, 2020 | Uncategorized
My wife and I got into a disagreement the other day when she referred to me as “privileged.” I have never considered myself to be privileged, since I didn’t grow up in the kind of a house as the truly privileged people in our neighborhood. My dad used to say that it...
by Dr. Dan | Jun 26, 2020 | Uncategorized
I made a friend this week—with a spider. I had a choice of whether to kill the spider or become friends with it and chose the latter. I figured our world didn’t need any more violence. Most people probably wouldn’t consider killing a spider to be an act of...
