Depression

People today have pretty stressful lives.  I know I do, with the demands of running The Center, writing and speaking, commitments to my faith...

It is very easy to fall into the trap of thinking your worth as a person also comes from what you do instead of...

On my desk at The Center in Edmonds, Washington, is a beautiful, flat rock.  Carved into this rock that I use as a paperweight...

As a general rule, most nights per week, your children need to eat at home with the family.  Hot, nutritious meals with a variety...

What do actors do when they get a new script? In my limited theatrical experience, which happened far longer ago than I care to...

Bill was a classic stay-putter. Almost thirty, he’d never kept a job for more than a year. In between episodes of work, he found...

Even with so many people engaged in academic pursuit, there is still a sizable segment of the population who foregoes postsecondary education and instead...

Teens live amid such tumultuous waters, it can be hard to detect if something is just an adolescent squall or if there's a real...

While there is no dispute that the incidence of depression is growing, the response to this growth is changing.   The trend has been away...

Oftentimes, a decision to start exercising is made in desperation and disgust. Desperation says, “Start now and start hard.” Disgust says, “You deserve to...

In a whole-person treatment approach, the entire body is recognized as an important component in depression. The whole-person approach accepts the body as a...

How do you know if you're depressed? When does sadness become depression? How many "bad days" can a person have in a row and...