by Dr Aletta | Jul 22, 2023 | Adulting, Life Matters, Self-Care, Stress
How To Handle Things When Everything Is Hard On the edge of Bryant Park on 42nd Street, behind the Fifth Avenue New York City Library with the resting lions in front, there’s a restaurant. An assistant editor from Glamour and I walked over from her office in the...
by Dr Aletta | Jul 15, 2023 | Life Matters, Relationships, Well-Being
The decade of my twenties was a shit show. When I heard the term “quarter-life crisis” I thought, yeah, I had that and then some. Sudden serious illness had me in and out of the hospital. That, plus a genetic predisposition for mood disorder (think depression,...
by Dr Aletta | Jul 10, 2023 | Anxiety, Mental Health, Self-Esteem, Stress
“The biggest source of stress inmy life is the screen, the blogging.” ~Jessica Valenti, founder and editor ofFeministing.com Editor’s Note: While the website being quoted in this blog post (Feministing.com) may have ceased publishing, it is...
by Dr Aletta | Feb 13, 2023 | Relationships
Nine Essentials of True Love How do I know this is True Love? We come to this question from a million different directions. Maybe we think we’re in love for the first time and we have nothing to compare it to. Maybe we had no role models growing up. Maybe we...
by Dr Aletta | Jan 31, 2023 | Happiness, Mental Health, Relationships, Self-Care, Self-Esteem
Editor’s Note: If you arrived here without reading Word Of The Year, Gaslighting part one, that’s fine; however, you may want to check it out for some of the back stories on Gaslighting Relationships and why it’s such an important issue for you to...