How are You Coping?: Building Resilience Skills (Part 3)In week seven of quarantine, how are you managing your time? Are you contemplating new projects around your home? Catching up with old...
O is for Optimism: Building Resilience Skills (Part 2)When Mister Rogers was a little boy and not yet a Mister, he found current events frightening. According to the news, tragedies were...
Finding Gratitude in a Desolate Time: Building Resilience Skills (Part 1)For the last year, I have been speaking about psychological resilience, almost by accident. I didn’t really intend to lecture; I started...
Five Grounding Tips for a Strange TimeWe live in a quarantined area, and have been instructed to stay home as much as possible. I have never been so grateful to live in a...
Always Look on the Bright Side of LifeOne night I was 17, my friends Joe, Peter, and I watched Monty Python’s The Life of Brian. (As with all Monty Python, this is not a film...
The Marriage NinjaWhat do you think is the most difficult psychotherapy to do well? Child therapy? Treating the terminally ill? No. There is one request...
The Skiing SurgeonsWhen you think of a surgeon, what comes to mind? A man striding in his white coat, barking imperiously, staff trailing behind? A...
It's the Most Loneliest Day of the Year(Reprinted from February 11, 2019) I used to dread Valentine’s Day, the holiday of the loved and desired. My friend Hannah would dress...
Tomorrow is not PromisedA month ago, I wrote about my client, whom I witnessed being diagnosed with a brain tumor. (https://www.lisedeguire.com/post/why-your-the...
Flashback Girl Feels Encouraged!The easiest part of writing my memoir turned out to be… writing my memoir. To be clear, it was not actually easy to write. I have no...