Kerry M Farrell, EdD

04/26/2025

04/12/2025

Humans have a tendency towards negativity bias. This is because of our evolution. We reward resentment, negativity, fear, sadness, anger, and disgust because that keeps us alive.

Positive emotions are nice to have; negative emotions are critical for keeping us alive.

One of the most practical ways to get happier is to be realistic about what’s happening—to assess what’s going on in our lives and say, “You know what? I have a lot more to be grateful about than to be resentful about, and so I’m going to write down the things for which I’m going to be grateful.”

We can raise our happiness between 10% and 25% within the next ten weeks by just writing down and paying attention that we should be more grateful than resentful.

01/17/2025

Dr. Yalom is my absolute favorite writer and teacher of psychotherapy, still sharing his wisdom at 93.

In conversation with Robert Rees, Ben Yalom shares tools for cultivating therapeutic intimacy inspired by his book Hour of the Heart, written with his father Irvin Yalom.

08/08/2024

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10/14/2022

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06/07/2022

The life-like sculpture of the late Seward Johnson returns to Spring Lake this fall! The lady with her groceries was right in front of our office!

https://www.springlake.org/sewardjohnson

01/21/2022

Training Day today. Enjoy your weekend!

12/05/2021

Training week!

07/04/2021

12/09/2020

Training days! Looking forward to learning with my colleagues!