How I Learned to Recognize and Survive a Toxic Neighbor An Essay by Dr. Irwin Jay Asher April, 2023 Research and statistics tell us 15%...

Hi. I have a master's and Doctorate in Family Counseling. I had my own office for twenty-six years specializing in couples and individual...

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My friend Marco, who lives in Sweden, read my blog BULLYING, and sent the following response: When you love yourself, you cannot be a...

Recently, a friend asked me how to journal. I was taken aback. I assumed everyone knew how to journal. She made it clear she wanted to...

At this moment, as we speak, I am being bullied by three women. I am 83 years old and have been bullied for more than seventy years. What...

I've decided to stick with LOVE... HATE is too heavy a burden to bear The above quote was spoken by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Why did...

When New Yorkers, like me, are asked why we push forward, knocking all obstacles out of our way, we say, It’s in the water. We can’t help...

As children, there are authority figures we trust: parents, teachers, aunts, uncles and perhaps best friends. When we don’t yet know who...

It is March 2021, and it seems everyone is talking about Hate. Interesting, I’ve just published my latest novel, HATE CRIMES. The...

As Cole Porter would say: Boys do it Men do it Even educated women do it Let's fall in line and hear the cries of men and boys who have...

Romans 12:19 Do not take revenge, my dear friends, but leave room for God’s wrath, for it is written: “It is mine to avenge; I will...

It is always better to focus on the people who are positive, kind and loving. When people are negative towards me, I try not to take it...

As a family therapist, I learned the power of art, the ability to draw one’s thoughts, early on. I also learned that there are two very...

I wish I had the answer. Why do we ruminate over what has happened in the past with no ability in the present to change it? When I was...

When you’re being bullied and think you gotta fight back and win, say the following mantra: To engage at all is, in some way, to lose; no...

The problem with the prevention of suicide is the basic fact that the public does not understand the warning signs. No one commits...

A friend said to me at lunch the other day that youth growing up in the African-American community who identify as gay, lesbian or...

Moms and the Mother Gene When I was growing up in the South Bronx in the 1940s, we were taught that all women were born with the...

When I worked for Jewish Family Service in Houston, I dealt with all of the substance abuse clients. A young, handsome lawyer stands out....