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Growing Younger on the Inside

By Dr. Paul Schmidt on September 19, 2025

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 […]

Retraining your Brain through Prayer and Meditation

By Dr. Paul Schmidt on September 18, 2025

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 […]

Growing Younger on the Inside

By Dr. Paul Schmidt on September 16, 2025

GROWING YOUNGER ON THE INSIDE AS YOUR BODY AGES ON THE OUTSIDE At seventy-two, 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 […]

Triangles Can Help or Hurt Communication

By Dr. Paul Schmidt on August 26, 2025

Sometimes when we want to talk with someone, we assume they wouldn’t understand, or worse still, wouldn’t listen. Maybe they’d even fire back some criticism at the messenger so they didn’t have to deal with the message. So we send our message through a third party. This is called a ricochet message, or a bank […]

Vampires and Zombies: How People Suck the Life Out of Each Other

By Dr. Paul Schmidt on August 26, 2025

Have you ever wondered why vampires and zombies have become so popular in American culture? I believe it is caused by the huge rise of addictions in America, and by so many parents over-protecting and over-indulging their children. Both of these trends have produced people whose lives resemble vampires and zombies on the inside, because they love […]

Work, Rest, and Play: Balance and Transitions

By Dr. Paul Schmidt on August 26, 2025

Work, rest and play all affect each other. They are a spiraling interdependent cycle: doing well at one makes it easier to do the others, and doing poorly at any of them makes the others go harder. (Diet, exercise, sex and sleeping work the same way, as do praying, forgiving, and acts of kindness.) Work includes […]

Guilt, Bogus Guilt, and Shame

By Dr. Paul Schmidt on August 25, 2025

GUILT, BOGUS GUILT, AND SHAME: How can you tell the Difference? If you’re feeling bad about yourself, you might as well do it up right. Make something good come out of it. You can do it three different ways, and though they all feel pretty much the same at the time, the way […]

Is it a Bad Habit, Sin, Disease, or Addiction

By Dr. Paul Schmidt on July 26, 2025

IS IT A BAD HABIT, SIN, DISEASE, OR ADDICTION? At most big family gatherings, there will be an alcoholic, a nicotine user, or a drug abuser present. The table likely plays host as well to a few non-chemical bad habits that also threaten the family. Nearly every family has folks who have an eating, […]

Hurting Other People's Feelings

By Dr. Paul Schmidt on July 26, 2025

For most people, and especially I believe most Southerners, "Thou shalt not hurt thy neighbor’s feelings" is right up there with the Ten Commandments, except higher. They would much more freely admit to lying, coveting and idolizing than to saying or doing something they knew would hurt someone’s feelings. The problem is that the truth […]

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Paul F. Schmidt, PhD

Therapy for Healthier Souls
Office in Louisville , KY

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