(When your Public Life is Ministry) A wise psychologist once told me that, in her experience as chair of the ethics committee for the board of psychology, the best way to stay out of ethical trouble was to lead an interesting private life. She had discovered that psychologists who stepped over ethical lines often did not have lives apart from their clinical practice. This bit of common sense has always rung true for me, and now that my own...

Essentials for Mental Health But yield who will to their separation, My object in living is to unite My avocation and my vocation As my two eyes make one in sight. Only where love and need are one, And the work is play for mortal stakes, Is the deed ever really done For Heaven and future’s sakes. Robert Frost (excerpted from Two Tramps in Mud Time) Begin with Gratitude Accept mistakes made in the past. Make peace. Move on. Celebrate the...