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Too Little LOVE, Too Much NICE

Posted in: Hamburger Helpers & Wellness Center |

Love is not always nice and nice is not always love. What do we mean by this? Love often requires doing or saying something that the recipient won't like. It's often hard, counter to what we would most...

Tags: attitude, emotional drain, honesty, relationships, sensitivity training

School for Life

Posted in: Healthy Boomers & Wellness Center |

Kids are a constant source of wonderment. Sometimes the things they say seem to come from nowhere to remind us how observant and attuned they are to what's happening around them, as was the case years...

Tags: drugs and alcohol, foster care, main meals, respect others, role model

View of World Matters

Posted in: Hamburger Helpers & Wellness Center |

These images say more than a million words written about the past 18 months: November '09:  The optimistic crowds in Grant Park November '09:  The President's confident smiling face that night March...

Tags: emotional control, global warming, gulf states, political debates

Lewin and Permanent Adolescence

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QUESTIONS FOR BOOMERS (and other humans) Can a vision of white, non-urban people becoming a minority in America have anything to do with the vitriol we see in political life of 2010? Does it differ...

Tags: civil rights progress, feelings of inferiority, kurt lewin, self hatred, test studies

Lew’s Laws for Leadership, Laughter & Life

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I talk too much. Always have. In the early seventies I was lucky enough to be selected Executive Director of an inner city settlement house/community center with a job description of “keep an explosion...

Tags: laughter, leadership, listen, smile

Arizona – Classic Beautiful but Dumb Blonde?

Posted in: Hamburger Helpers & Wellness Center |

The state of Arizona is akin to a classic “beautiful but dumb blonde”--- spectacular to look at, but the things coming out of its mouth in the Capitol leaves one scratching their head. Is it hypocrisy...

Tags: Ethnicity, individual rights, racial categories, SB 1070, state of arizona

Words … Not Race Alone

Posted in: Hamburger Helpers & Wellness Center |

When words and behavior seem out of sync, always believe the behavior; it broadcasts meaning far more reliably. That’s why the chants and signs to “keep government out of my Medicare”, “kill socialized...

Tags: government entitlements, religious zealots, supreme court justice, violent confrontations

Humor in Hostage Trauma

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It was Cherry Blossom time in Washington. I was on the phone in my office a few blocks from the White House when a secretary came bursting through doorway. “Lew, the painters are fighting in the hall....

Tags: humor, stressful times, support

Can Humor be Anger’s Antidote?

Posted in: Hamburger Helpers & Wellness Center |

Been angry lately? All you have to do is scan the media and it seems the emotion of the decade. Where’s it coming from? Is it possible that we retain a primal residue from our early mammal days when...

Tags: anger, emotion, humor side

From Ezekiel to FDR: On Raising Taxes

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I believe in raising taxes. Now that I have your attention, this is why. We make decision-making and life way too complicated. When you cut through the fog, deciding what to do in tough situations can...

Tags: decision making, medicine, mother teresa, role models

Lew Hamburger, Ph.D.

Posted in: Boomer-Living's Authors & Wellness Authors |

After forty years of working as a psychotherapist in trauma, disaster relief, suicide, abuse, and depression, Lew Hamburger, Ph.D. always has been most impressed with what is NOT taught in universities...