Robert Hammel, Psychologist

11/24/2025

11/23/2025

Love grows in the small choices we make every day: choosing trust, offering grace, pausing to validate, responding with kindness, showing loyalty, leading with empathy, reaching for touch, and practicing compassion even when it’s hard. These are the moments that help a relationship feel safe, warm, and deeply connected.

11/20/2025

Regarding recent updates to the CDC's website, APA reiterates the fact that vaccines do not cause autism, and that claims of any such association have been repeatedly discredited in peer reviewed studies.
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11/20/2025

AAP President Dr. Susan J. Kressly responds to the recent changes on the CDC’s website - “The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention website has been changed to promote false information suggesting vaccines cause autism. Since 1998, independent researchers across seven countries have conducted more than 40 high-quality studies involving over 5.6 million people. The conclusion is clear and unambiguous: There’s no link between vaccines and autism. Anyone repeating this harmful myth is misinformed or intentionally trying to mislead parents.

We call on the CDC to stop wasting government resources to amplify false claims that sow doubt in one of the best tools we have to keep children healthy and thriving: routine immunizations. The American Academy of Pediatrics stands with members of the autism community who have asked for support in stopping this rumor from spreading any further."

11/19/2025

Teach your children that life gets lighter the moment we stop wrestling with what was never ours to control.

Some things will happen exactly as they happen — rain, traffic, other people’s choices — no matter how tightly we brace against them.

But that doesn’t mean we teach them to back down for everything.

What they need to learn is discernment — the wisdom to know when something deserves their voice, their energy, their pushback… and when the real strength is in letting the moment pass.

Not every inconvenience is a battle.
Not every discomfort is a threat.
And learning the difference is a life skill.

What does change is how we meet those moments.
Whether we tense or breathe.
Whether we spiral or steady ourselves.
Whether we pour our energy into resistance, or into the parts of life that actually respond to our effort.

And that’s the lesson worth passing on: that peace doesn’t come from perfect conditions,
but from knowing where to place your attention.

Focus on what you can shape.
Loosen your grip on what you can’t.

That’s where ease begins. ❤️

11/18/2025

Start where you are right now…

11/18/2025

This is fine 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

11/16/2025

Wise words on tolerance from Karl Popper – a former patron of ours – for

The full quote is:

'Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them. In this formulation, I do not imply, for instance, that we should always suppress the utterance of intolerant philosophies; as long as we can counter them by rational argument and keep them in check by public opinion, suppression would certainly be most unwise.

But we should claim the right to suppress them if necessary even by force; for it may easily turn out that they are not prepared to meet us on the level of rational argument, but begin by denouncing all argument; they may forbid their followers to listen to rational argument, because it is deceptive, and teach them to answer arguments by the use of their fists or pistols. We should therefore claim, in the name of tolerance, the right not to tolerate the intolerant.

We should claim that any movement preaching intolerance places itself outside the law, and we should consider incitement to intolerance and persecution as criminal, in the same way as we should consider incitement to murder, or to kidnapping, or to the revival of the slave trade, as criminal.'

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