Tears Psychology

Could the 2024 election have been the last free election held in a unified America? "A dire warning of the right’s drift towards authoritarianism.” —Financial Times Published in the run-up to Donald Trump’s victory, Rebellion sounded a chilling and clear-eyed warning about the...

What’s the real story behind every teardrop? From silent sobs behind closed doors to public displays of grief—or joy—tears have always been part of the human story. Yet few of us pause to ask: Why do we really cry? In this gentle, thought-provoking exploration, JD Arden peels back the myths and science to reveal the true power of tears. Why are humans the only creatures to shed emotional tears? What do our cultures, families, and histories teach us about who is allowed to weep? Are all tears the same, or do some bring healing while others signal pain? Arden’s journey moves from the ...

The second book of the How We Live trilogy moves away from the journey of normal change, with all its resistance and excitement, and focuses on the journeys that get derailed, dealing with the common ways in which we break: trauma, anxiety, depression, doubt, despair, or simply getting into a rut. How We Break shows how the human animal gets stuck, not because of some “pathology”, but because of the nature of the creatures that we are and the kinds of processes that constitute our being.  

This work is written by a licensed professional counselor who provides cognitive, clinical, experiential, and spiritual concepts and exercises to help the listener move beyond their former state of struggle and into a new level of freedom. The exercises presented in this book are time-honored and have been successfully applied by the author in her workshops and counseling practice for more than two decades. The goal of this teaching is to help the listener to move from pain to power and to overcome adversity like never before.

With his signature trenchancy and incisive wit, Morse cycles through wide-ranging themes that include postmodernism and critical theory, identity psychology and sociality, diversity and divisiveness, fake news and relativism, logic and debate, and rights and tyranny. Altogether, this volume serves an astonishing chronicle of the times which defies status-quo discord in favor of levelheaded dialectic.