How can our children develop these sort of empathic bonds with others if their interactions are with a screen rather than real-life, flesh-and-blood people? At an age when my son needs to be learning how to connect with others, and how to navigate the difficult moments that do occur in human relations, technology adds still more hurdles. Photographer Yann Arthus-Bertrand had an idea. While stranded in Mali in the 1980’s, Arthus-Bertrand spent an evening listening to another man’s life story. […]

I have always been drawn to the quote by Friedrich Nietzsche that “Freedom is to struggle with no hope for reward.” There a great deal of courage in that line. There is comfort in the notion that something can us keep us going, even when the circumstances seem insurmountable. As I have maneuvered the various […]

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

Sometimes I feel like I have this life-thing all figured out. The roof leaks: no problem. The dog pees on the Christmas presents: primo-fodder for our holiday letter! But then there are other days … I catch a glimpse of cockroaches scurrying away as I crack open the cabinet doors, and it DOES bother me. I stress about them all day. I research whether it would hurt my dog if I sprayed poison on the baseboards. (Answer: Yes).

A poet and lawyer, Sean Doyle, MAPP, JD, offers strengths-based consulting for organizations, and acts as an advisor and confident to people about their personal sources of joy, how they want to live their lives, and finding meaning in life and work. Sean can be reached at JohnSeanDoyle@aol.com

by Sean Doyle
When, at 39, I was trying to decide whether to pursue training in positive psychology , I made for myself all the “practical” objections. I was already a successful lawyer, had a wife, kids, mortgage and typical routine. My wife, however, knew that deep down it was something I really wanted […]