How Anxiety Was My Greatest Weakness and Now My Greatest Strength

Note: First Published in PsychCentral on November 7, 2019 By Tracy Shawn, MA  Last updated: 7 Nov 2019   ~ 2 MIN READ According the famous mythologist … [Read more...]

How to Lose Weight Without Dieting

First Published by PsychCentral on October 11, 2019 By Tracy Shawn, MA   ~ 2 MIN READ To lose weight — and keep it off — don’t go on a diet. Why? Because “going on a diet” … [Read more...]

How to Fight Mental Health Stigma

Please note: First Published in PsychCentral.Com under the title "Facing Mental Health Stigma" on September 6, 2019 by Tracy Shawn, MA Last updated: 6 Sep 2019   ~ 3 MIN … [Read more...]

Three Simple Ways to Deflect Difficult People

By Tracy Shawn, M.A.   ~ 3 MIN READ (Please note: this piece was first published with PsychCentral.com on August 12, 2019 under the title: "3 Secret Tactics for Dealing with Difficult … [Read more...]

You Are Not Your Thoughts

  Please note: this was first published with PsychCentral.com on July 28, 2019   By Tracy Shawn, MA   ~ 3 MIN READ Listen closely because … [Read more...]

How to Heal Yourself with Humor

Please note: this piece was first published in PsychCentral.com on June 15, 2019 under the title "Stay Funny, My Friends"   ~ 2 MIN READ   Within scientific circles, humor is … [Read more...]

Counterintuitive Ways to Combat Anxiety

Please note: this piece was first published with PsychCentral on April 22, 2019   Through the years I’ve learned to douse the ongoing wildfire of fear with productive tools such … [Read more...]

How to Follow–and Live by–Your Own Meaning

By Tracy Shawn, MA : First Published under title "A Life Worth Living: How to Find and Follow Your Meaning" on PsychCentral  on 6 Feb 2019  ~ 2 MIN READ If you’d like to know how to … [Read more...]

Humans are a Weird Species

  By Tracy Shawn, M.A. If aliens happened to land their spaceship in front of my house and then traipsed their lithe gray bodies out to get a glimpse of where the hell they were—and who the … [Read more...]

Dealing with Summer Depression, Otherwise Known as: Summertime Seasonal Affective Disorder

Note: this piece was first published on PsychCentral under the title: Bummer in the Summer: How to Deal with Summertime Seasonal Affective Disorder By Tracy Shawn, MA ~ 3 min read As I write this, … [Read more...]