How Imagination and Feelings Shape Our Behaviors and Also How We Learn

The Validation Trap: Moving On From the Need for Acknowledgment

It's a Mad, Mad World: Mental Health in Neoliberal Capitalism

No One Is Watching — The Damaging Illusion of an Unseen Audience

The Dharma of the Absurd: The Nature of Awakening in an Indifferent Universe

Seeing Isn’t Believing: Why the Brain Isn’t Built for Truth And Nothing Is As It Seems

Reparenting Your Mind: Parts Work and Buddhist Practice

The Roots of Addiction: Contemporary Psychological and Buddhist Perspectives

When I, Then I'll, or the subtle ways avoidance disguises itself—talk only, meditation didn't record

The Body, Healing and Love (in person talk in NYC)

What's Beneath the Flames: Understanding Anger, Uncovering the Vulnerable Emotions It Conceals and the Path to Healing

EGO DEATH: The State Where We Lose Our Sense of Having a Separate Identity.

From Chaos to Calm—Ways to Help Others Who Are Emotionally Distressed

Catastrophizing: Ruminating on the Worst Possible Outcome, No Matter How Unlikely

Beyond the Hamster Wheel: Stillness in the Time of Acceleration

On the Purpose and Interpretation of Dreams, What We Can Learn from Them, and Employ in Our Meditation

NEW YEAR'S DAY TALK 2025: Breaking Free From the Despair of Capitalist Realism

The Gift of Being Known: Nurturing Our Well-Being Through Authentic Connection

Addressing and Lessening the Stressing

Seeing the Suffering Behind the Blowhard's Mask: The Psychology of and Buddhist Approach to Narcissism