Live each day as if it were your last in terms of loving and appreciating the lives in your life. Who knows when any one of them will depart this mortal coil. Or it may be you who exits stage...

Denial is a unconscious psychological device that people use to avoid dealing with reality, to avoid dealing with facts about themselves that they prefer not to look at or acknowledge. The problem is that when the things we are denying...

As 2014 gets underway so do the goals of many individuals finally promising to make good on adopting healthier lifestyle habits. This is the year that you’re going to get fit and drop the extra pounds you always wanted to....

  I am the Vegan Activist I am the vegan activist, My heart filled with the wish to relieve the hideous suffering Mysteriously inflicted on animals seen as food. Rising early, sitting in silence every day, listening within, opening... dilating.......

Equine assisted psychotherapy utilizes horses to generate metaphors that relate to people's lives and emotional issues, and to provide insights and solutions. In a recent personal experience with my horses the message of maintaining boundaries was clearly emphasized and an...

It is our ego's need to control the universe. And so we judge. We impose. We interfere. But what we're really doing is sabotaging ourselves. When we work on ourselves rather than expending our energy trying to change and manipulate...

It seems to me that Americans are waking up at a faster and faster rate.  The idea that the vegan diet is just for Berkeley hippies is a very old idea indeed; as you’ve probably heard, even Al Gore has...

People can change. They need to really want to. They need to really work at it. They need to have the right tools. SCROLL DOWN TO WATCH VIDEO...

I gave a speech at a conference once that was mainly composed of vegetarians and vegans.  A woman approached me afterward; she was very obese, with stringy hair and bad skin, with a serious scowl on her face.  She said,...

On one level, denial is an unconscious defense mechanism to discharge anxiety. On another level, however, it’s a choice. A mind game we’re playing with ourselves.SCROLL TO WATCH VIDEO...

When we fail to set boundaries or set them and fail to maintain them, we make ourselves victims of those who need boundary setting. When we don't set and maintain boundaries, and then complain about the subsequent abuse, we are...

If you don't have the life you want, you are most likely sabotaging yourself in some, if not many, ways. Learn to recognize and eliminate your self-sabotaging behaviors once and for all, thus paving the way for your happiness, physical...

We have been trained to be negative, pessimistic, cynical, skeptical, and frightened. We have been trained to believe that these traits are practical and will enable us to more effectively navigate our lives through a mine field of chaos, horror...

I have a new column in VegNews magazine, and will be discussing controversial issues that face vegans.  There are actually quite a few (including a recent blog topic I posted – on whether to speak up or not when others...

Decreasing anxiety and eliminating panic attacks is ultimately about effectively dealing with the truth. SCROLL DOWN TO WATCH VIDEO...

e create our emotional reality with our thoughts: Positive thoughts tend to generate happiness. Negative thoughts tend to generate fear, anxiety and depression. We create our physical reality with our thoughts: Positive thoughts tend to reduce stress and strengthen our...

When our relationships fail it is because we have made choices which are destructive and self-defeating. So caught up in our ego and our need to be right, we are blinded to the truth that love flourishes when we are...

Truly loving, nurturing and sustainable relationships are not happening for a great many of us. The reasons for this have to do with our ego getting in the way, with our unwillingness to be more thoughtful, tolerant and considerate, with...

Psychiatrist Walter E. Jacobson, M.D., best-selling author of “Forgive To Win!,” has just published his second book, “Einstein’s Cosmic Journey – A Biographical Fantasy of Quantum Proportions” which will be available for FREE DOWNLOAD from Sept. 7th thru Sept. 11th...

Truly loving, nurturing and sustainable relationships are not happening for a great many of us. The reasons for this have to do with our ego getting in the way, with our unwillingness to be more thoughtful, tolerant and considerate, with...