Brain Food for the Good Life Blog

A Healthy View of Politics?

By Dr. Paul Schmidt on September 3, 2024

In this presidential election of 2024, I’m an undecided voter. I know what I want to vote for, but I will decide the last day who. Because so much may happen before November 5, I’m trying to stay in the day. I hear many saying they’ll vote out of fear and hatred toward this candidate […]

Retraining your Brain through Prayer and Meditation

By Dr. Paul Schmidt on November 18, 2023

Recovery from troubling thoughts, emotional surges, addictions, and bad habits can be greatly assisted by retraining the brain. To get the most out of everything you want to learn by hearing and reading, it will benefit you greatly to start five sheets of paper, or better still, five documents on your computer that you can […]

Lessons Life Has Taught Me

By Dr. Paul Schmidt on September 15, 2023

The elements of the good life, of God’s life coming through us, are the fruits of the Spirit: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control (Gal. 5:22-23), and also such attitudes as courage, wisdom, hope, forgiveness, healthiness, and surely a sense of humor. Focus on these and they will grow, as will […]

Growing Younger on the Inside

By Dr. Paul Schmidt on September 15, 2023

At seventy-five, I am less and less interested in the exterior of people’s lives – what their bodies, clothes, houses, vacations, or social media images look like. I pay more attention now to how their eyes twinkle, how their voice dances, how their laugh breaks out across a room, whether both children and adults enjoy […]

Friendship -- An Endangered Treasure

By Dr. Paul Schmidt on September 15, 2023

Do you have a true friend? What is a true friend to you, anyway? To me, a true friend is someone you can count on—to be there for you, to help you out of trouble, to believe in you, to keep your secrets, to have your back, to tell you the truth, to love your […]

Making the Case for Marital Fidelity

By Dr. Paul Schmidt on July 25, 2023

I grew up in the fifties, thinking that marital fidelity was just what you do. All the Schmidts I had heard of had apparently been faithful to their spouses, and I was told that it just make good sense, for families and for society. At church we were told this was one of the […]

By Dr. Paul Schmidt on January 30, 2023

Core Values for WELL Inc. Universal Generosity ~ As Jesus gave to the woman at the well, from our inspired wellsprings inside and in community, we are giving away grace and truth to all who want it. The Common Good ~ In our communications, actions, and work products, we inspire […]

The Biblical Basis for the BLT and CAS

By Dr. Paul Schmidt on January 7, 2023

SCRIPTURAL ELEMENTS OF THE WELL MISSION Deuteronomy 6: 2-3 If you obey all His decrees and commands, you will enjoy a long life. . . . Then all will go well with you, and you will have many children in the land flowing with milk and honey. NLT Psalms 139: 23-24 Search me O God, […]

Overcoming Anxiety and Worry

By Dr. Paul Schmidt on September 26, 2021

Recently the Virginia Tech massacre once again filled our news and talk shows with one of their favorite enemies of the people, terror. We all need to know how to cope with fear, so I’ll give you here my favorite enemies of fear. Those who study and rehearse these can keep them handy as an emergency tool […]

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Dr. Paul F. Schmidt

Psychologist in Louisville , KY

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