Kurt LaRose MSW, LCSW, LICSW

Podcasting Pride ... it is a thing and quite healthy in mental health. Challenged by pride? The word itself has been damned probably as long as people have been obsessed by who sleeps with who in the United States. A bit of snark, a bit of history, and some psychobabblejabble regarding pride an...

My new podcast is live... finally! Here an expert in behavioral health approaches topics of impact in human thinking and feeling and acting with some snark, humor, nonchalance and mostly with outside of the box "psychobabblejabble." If you can stand the first two it could get easier.

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Healthy eats are as good for the body and brain - as it is the mind.  Changing body, brain and mind can be as simple as "garbage in, garbage out."  Simple does not mean cheap, however.  Often one of the challenges in overall health can be boiled down to costs.  Not just healthcare costs or access...

In the US April 15th is tax day. For many it is the culmination of a years worth of inventory - sorting out gains, losses, expenses, earnings and acquisitions of various kinds. For the "feds" and its many "partners" it is about algorithms that attempt to accommodate wealth and poverty such that...

Implicit bias is believed to be, by literature, research and blinding analysis (those are my biases in this regard) very difficult to change. And those "believed to be" words are apart of the story. It's possible that in the study of bias we "prefer" knowing that we have "it" right. And therein l...

Helping begins when the perspective of those asking (help is heard best when sought, especially by adults), is deemed valid.  Here the helper knows that the "helpee" sees things as they do for good reason (assuming they are not psycho-pathologically injuring).  Helpers must begin as if the "helpe...

Gratitude is a thing in the concept and in the science of happiness!  It is not, however, a spinning of a view for the sake of GETTING happy.  It is actual gratitude  - a true assigned thought, an assigned view and perspective that is genuine to the eyes of the beholder.  Why is that?  You don't ...

Luck Day! Green Beer!  And Exceptions to the Rule!  St. Patrick's Day as a historical evolving holiday is one that depicts the ironies of human ingenuity and creativity.  The idea that an irish kidnapped child would return to his homeland and spend 30 plus years generating christian schools, mona...