Strong friendships make our lives better. We must carve out connecting time. I’m a longtime fan of “alternative” music. While it’s hard for me to…
Category: Mindfulness
Dr. Brooks was recently featured on the Texas Standard, an award-winning radio journalism organization that focuses on current, relevant issues. Dr. Brooks was brought on…
What’s up with today’s kids — Generation Z? I recently was interviewed by Tara Parker-Pope of the the New York Times for a story she…
Screens aren’t all that bad… When we talk about how screens can improve our happiness, it is important to remember that monitoring our screen use…
Our happiness is taking a serious hit due to our use of technology We love our screens, and they certainly offer many benefits. But there…
wolf alice tells all: The magic of “simpler” times, playing and goofing off Wolf Alice’s “Bros” is a song I stumbled upon about a year…
The seductive pull of screens that you might not know about Blame it on supernormal stimuli In my previous blogs, I describe the role…
We are conditioned to check our phones, even if we don’t know it Why do smartphones and other technologies have such a pull on us?…
The pull of screens: we all experience it, we all feel it on a daily basis, but why? Screens have a strange power over us,…
And to win the video game, we have to check ourselves First, let’s get this out of the way: our lives aren’t like video games.…