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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 […]

Stress: Who Needs It? Somebody Does!

By Dr. Paul Schmidt on July 26, 2025

Reader: My pastor says I’m a peacemaker, a good thing. My friends and doctor say I’m a sponge for stress, a bad thing. How could making life easier for others be wrong? Is physical pain a good thing? It doesn’t feel good, but it does good. It draws our attention to the problem that’s causing it, and motivates […]

Overcoming Anxiety and Worry

By Dr. Paul Schmidt on July 26, 2025

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 […]

Forgive? Why? Who? What? When? and really, How?

By Dr. Paul Schmidt on June 26, 2025

Perhaps the number one killer of mental and relational health in America is the refusal to go through the learning experience of emotional pain. But I believe our next biggest mental health buzz kill is our refusal to forgive others and ourselves. I just have to take a stab here at trying to reduce this […]

Overcoming Anxiety and Worry (Part 2)

By Dr. Paul Schmidt on June 14, 2025

The key to managing worry and fear is learning how to change the channels in your mind. We learned last time how to switch awareness from the involuntary nervous system that takes feelings TO the brain, and give it to the voluntary nerves taking messages FROM the brain out to the muscles. We also learned […]

How I Live: Are the Best Things in Life really Free?

By Dr. Paul Schmidt on May 14, 2025

NATURAL QUIET AND SIMPLICITY INSPIRE ACTIVE INVOLVEMENT August 2022 At midlife, I had been building and launching both my family and my career for over 20 years. I was stressed out from trying to make ends meet. My business supported employees and counselors, but during its last years, I reached a point where I […]

Should your Adult Child Live in or out of your Home?

By Dr. Paul Schmidt on May 5, 2025

ADULT CHILDREN: SHOULD THEY BE IN OR OUT OF THE NEST? PARENT: My son wants to move back home, with his tail between his legs. This is the second time he’s lost his job and his girlfriend under the same circumstance: saying he wants to get away from his friends who are pot-heads, […]

Reversing Unhealthy Relationships

By Dr. Paul Schmidt on April 1, 2025

It seems to me that most Americans have one or more people somewhere in their family or friends that they just can't get along with. The way it feels is like, "I just don't feel comfortable around them. I can't be myself. They make me feel and act crazy, so I prefer to avoid them." […]

How to Fire Up Your Love Life

By Dr. Paul Schmidt on April 1, 2025

I couldn’t resist this shameless cheese-tart title. I’m just hoping you won’t have to buy your Maxim or Cosmo this month. If they printed this, they’d lose readers. Because our focus here will be on the primary sex organ, the brain, I won’t need to mention any body parts or sexual acts. I am going to give you a technique though, […]

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Paul F. Schmidt, PhD

Therapy for Healthier Souls
Office in Louisville , KY

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