David Beasley, LMHC

04/02/2025

There is nothing more important than our children.

03/28/2025

We cannot heal what we don't acknowledge.

03/27/2025

The spiritual life is much more about subtraction than addition. It's about letting go.

01/25/2025

A book every parent should read.

After more than a decade of stability or improvement, the mental health of adolescents plunged in the early 2010s. Rates of depression, anxiety, self-harm, and su***de rose sharply, more than doubling on many measures. Why? In , social psychologist Jonathan Haidt lays out the facts about th...

06/07/2024

Want your kid to retire a millionaire?

Here's an idea: when they get a part-time job at age 15 open a Roth IRA for them.

For $100 per month. If they continue that until age 65 and it's invested in a mutual fund that tracks the stock market (last 50 years averaged 11%).

At age 65 they will have:

$2,120,040.49

That's $100 per month to get $2 million!

02/02/2024

The quality of our relationships determines the quality of our lives. -Esther Perel

12/25/2023

How can we becomes less judgmental? Let's build a culture in which judginess diminished, and perspective-taking and understanding grew.

10/23/2023

Comparison is the death of joy.

-Mark Twain

10/21/2023

Humans need a purpose and a challenge. Without it, life is dismal.

10/04/2023

What we think about ourselves is far more important than what others think.

10/04/2023

Looking beyond the mirror we find a world that needs our gifts, talents, and compassion.

09/25/2023

Mistakes are opportunities for learning. There's no shame in that.