Self Help Psychology

Commercialism abounds at this time of year. Not only are the television commercials attempting to sell you on all kinds of things but they along with print ads leave the impression that everyone is having some Merry Christmas. A Christmas that can only be "Merry" if you buy enough stuff for people, whether you like [...]

Okay, I am not obsessed with weight. This blog just had to happen because I cannot believe that "experts" in the U.S. have nothing better to do than pick on Santa Claus for being too fat. Give me a friggin’ break, give us all a friggin’ break will ya?
Firstly, who the heck really sees Santa [...]

Featuring primarily online email and/or phone sessions A.J. Mahari shares her vast life experience in over-coming a difficult and dysfunctional past and transforming it into functional living in each unfolding here and now moment through an empowering and motivating attitude of gratitude.
Touchstone Life Coaching reflects my over-all philosophy. As a life coach I believe that [...]

Okay, we as a society have lost our minds now. That’s it, it has happened. Jennifer Love Hewitt has been criticized as being "fat". Get out of here. What does that truly make the rest of us then? Don’t answer that!
What is this world coming too? Where has common sense gone? What is western cultural [...]

Life is an ocean. Each one of us needs a boat in order to navigate life’s waves and journey through both life’s choppy waters and its calm waters.
We have no control over how hard the wind blows in the ocean of life. But we do have control over and responsibility for having a sea-worthy vessel [...]

I wanted to blog about this as a way of remembering an old cyber-friend who has passed away. "Gentle touch" had a significant web presence and was a giving human being who helped a lot of troubled souls and people in pain. I wanted to note that here. I wanted to add my voice as [...]

Be willing and prepared to wait for what you most want and need. Trust that the winds that blow in your life today have purpose. Learn to wait.
You can and will save yourself from so much unnecessary pain if you learn to wait and to proceed more slowly with caution in life. Trust your [...]

Toxic relationships seem to be pervasive to the point where healthy relationships are in the minority. Toxic relationships are proliferating and have been doing so for the better part of the last few decades.
Toxic relationships are the coming together of adults, who carry wounded children deep inside of them, and who were raised in [...]