by Gina Simmons, Ph.D. After a child commits murder we typically see news stories portraying these kids as normal one day and crazy the next. This sells papers, raises your tension level and keeps you watching. The reality is far more disturbing.  Usually the child demonstrates years of disturbing conduct before he or she commits [...]

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by Gina Simmons, Ph.D. Angry, difficult people challenge us in many ways. They scare us with reactions out of proportion to the event that fueled their anger.  When we feel fear or threat we typically feel an automatic anger response.  Our anger then feeds the other persons anger. We can diffuse an angry person by [...]

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by Gina Simmons, Ph.D. At a Christmas party last December I received a humorous calendar entitled “For Women Who Do Too Much”. We can all relate to that feeling of “doing too much” particularly when we’re late for an appointment, stuck in traffic, or trying to send an important fax just as the machine breaks [...]

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by Gina Simmons, Ph.D. While in flight to Seattle I met a woman who told a compelling story. Several years ago, while she was a student at the University of Washington in Seattle, she was approached by an attractive, well dressed, young man. He told her his car had broken down, he was new to [...]

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