by Dr Aletta | Apr 10, 2014 | Anxiety, Life Matters
By now you have probably heard about the Heartbleed Bug that has the Internet community shorting out its circuits. With headlines, tweets and posts with titles like “Why Heartbleed Is the Ultimate Web Nightmare” its a wonder any of us got any sleep last...
by Dr Aletta | Aug 24, 2013 | Depression, Mental Health
My senior year of college my Dad suggested I go to a therapist. He thought it might help me find some direction. During a hard college career that was interrupted by chronic illness, I changed majors three times, and still wasn’t sure what I wanted to be when I...
by Dr Aletta | Apr 8, 2013 | Anxiety, Mindfulness, Video
The other night I had an anxiety dream. You know the kind of dream I’m talking about, where you are in the wings of a big Broadway production clearly expected to go on and you don’t know the part or the lines or the cue or anything!!! Worse, you’re...
by Dr Aletta | Jun 8, 2012 | Self-Esteem
Today I was ho-humming along, feeling blah and uninspired and not really ready to impress myself. I knew I needed to write but the mojo wasn’t there. My muse had left the building. Then I stumbled upon this brilliant photograph by my friend and business coach...
by Dr Aletta | Feb 21, 2011 | Mindfulness, Self-Esteem
Mindfulness vs Technology. We don’t usually start a war between the two on purpose. It seems like it just finds us. I recently encountered this conflict on a long flight from New York to LA where my plane was outfitted with individual monitors. With the swipe of...