Advice Goddess Radio: Amy Alkon

Nationally syndicated advice columnist Amy Alkon's Advice Goddess Radio -- "Nerd Your Way To A Better Life!" with the best brains in therapy and research. Are you a procrastinator? My guest this week is psychologist Lenora Yuen, Ph.D., here to help you cure your habit of procrastination. She’ll talk about why you procrastinate and how to stop NOW.  She’s co-creator of the first procrastination treatment group in the country, along with her co-author of her excellent, research-driven book, Procrastination. There’s much wisdom in this book -- just in prepping for the show, I’ve recognized some of my bad habits, and I’ve started taking small steps to change them. You can do the same (with your own bad habits!). You’re sure to get some very wise insight and tips for real and very positive change from the show.  Listen to all my fascinating guests every Sunday, 7-8pm Pacific, 10-11pm Eastern, with podcasts available afterward, at http://www.blogtalkradio.com/amyalkon

Nationally syndicated advice columnist Amy Alkon's Advice Goddess Radio -- "Nerd Your Way To A Better Life!" with the best brains in therapy and research. My guest this week is clinical psychologist Harriet Lerner, Ph.D., with simple rules for minimizing conflict to make for happier relationships. Lerner is the author of the much-lauded best-seller, The Dance of Anger. In her current book, which we’ll be discussing on the show, Marriage Rules (which could also be titled “Relationship Rules”), she draws on her years of theoretical work, her knowledge of the best research in the field, and her work with patients to present some gems for getting along over the longterm. Listen to all my fascinating guests every Sunday, 7-8pm Pacific, 10-11pm Eastern, with podcasts available afterward, at http://www.blogtalkradio.com/amyalkon   And do pick up a copy of my book, I SEE RUDE PEOPLE: One woman's battle to beat some manners into impolite society. 

Nationally syndicated advice columnist Amy Alkon's Advice Goddess Radio -- "Nerd Your Way To A Better Life!" with the best brains in therapy and research. My guest this week is social psychologist Dr. Carol Tavris, talking about how we deceive ourselves in the face of mistakes in order to prop up our self-worth — making an even greater mess of our lives, relationships, and social relationships. Understanding cognitive dissonance and the self-justification we use to mop up after it is the best way to avoid behaving in ways that are dumb, painful and morally wrong. And that's what we'll be doing on this show.   Her book, co-authored with Dr. Elliot Aronson, is one of my favorites: Mistakes Were Made (but not by ME): Why we justify foolish beliefs, bad decisions, and hurtful acts.   Listen to all my fascinating guests every Sunday, 7-8pm Pacific, 10-11pm Eastern, with podcasts available afterward, at http://www.blogtalkradio.com/amyalkon   And do pick up a copy of my book, I SEE RUDE PEOPLE: One woman's battle to beat some manners into impolite society. And if my advice column doesn't run in a paper near you, please request it!

Nationally syndicated advice columnist Amy Alkon's Advice Goddess Radio -- "Nerd Your Way To A Better Life!" with the best brains in therapy and research. My guest this week is Dr. B. Janet Hibbs on love and fairness -- how being fair to each other is the key to happy relationships (and saving relationships in trouble). Her very wise, very helpful book: Try to See it My Way: Being Fair in Love and Marriage   We’ll discuss what fairness has to do with love, how its lack leads to affairs, alcoholism, secret lives, and big betrayals, and what it takes to bring fairness into your relationship.   Listen to all my fascinating guests every Sunday, 7-8pm Pacific, 10-11pm Eastern, with podcasts available afterward, at http://www.blogtalkradio.com/amyalkon

Nationally syndicated advice columnist Amy Alkon's Advice Goddess Radio -- "Nerd Your Way To A Better Life!" with the best brains in science. Wheat is murder. Or, if not murder, a form of slow suicide.  My guest tonight, cardiologist Dr. William Davis, will bust the widely believed myths about "healthy whole grains," the notion that bread "is the staff of life" (it's actually the staff of diabetes and many other ailments), and more.   His book: "Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight, and Find Your Path Back to Health."   Here's a blog post about "Wheat Belly" by Dr. Michael Eades, who turned me on to Davis and his evidence-based thinking on wheat. A related show, with dietary researcher Dr. Jeff Volek is here.   Listen to all my fascinating guests every Sunday, 7-8pm Pacific, 10-11pm Eastern, with podcasts available afterward, at http://www.blogtalkradio.com/amyalkon   Read my column in a paper near you (or ask editors to carry it) and please buy my book, I SEE RUDE PEOPLE: One woman's battle to beat some manners into impolite society.

Nationally syndicated advice columnist Amy Alkon's Advice Goddess Radio -- "Nerd Your Way To A Better Life!" with the best brains in therapy and research.  My guest tonight on Advice Goddess Radio will be evolutionary psychologist Dr. Geoffrey Miller. You've read about his work -- his strippers study -- in my syndicated column. ("In a study by psychologist Geoffrey Miller, female lap dancers not on the pill earned an average of $276 a night whereas those on it brought in only $193, making pill-using lap dancers $80 less hot and sexy to men per night.") We'll be discussing how and why we sell ourselves to others through what we buy, and debating whether we can do that without spending so much money -- the subject of Miller's book "Spent: Sex, Evolution, and Consumer Behavior." Listen to all my fascinating guests every Sunday, 7-8pm Pacific, 10-11pm Eastern, with podcasts available afterward, at http://www.blogtalkradio.com/amyalkon 

Nationally syndicated advice columnist Amy Alkon's Advice Goddess Radio -- "Nerd Your Way To A Better Life!" with the best brains in therapy and research.  My guest tonight on Advice Goddess Radio is clinical psychologist and emotions expert Dr. George A. Bonanno, with an actually uplifting show on which he'll smash all the widely held myths about grieving and bereavement, like the notion that there are specific "stages of grief" that each person must go through, and the notion that one must do "grief work," or the grief will come back to bite them.    Listen to all my fascinating guests every Sunday, 7-8pm Pacific, 10-11pm Eastern, with podcasts available afterward, at http://www.blogtalkradio.com/amyalkon

Advice Goddess Radio -- "Nerd Your Way To A Better Life!" with the best brains in therapy and research.  *Tonight's show will be an hour earlier, at 6pm Pacific, 9pm Eastern.   My guest tonight on Advice Goddess Radio is psychologist Dr. Irene S. Levine on friendships and ending a friendship -- why to do it, when to do it, and the right way and the wrong way to do it; also, how to survive a breakup with your best friend or a close friend.   Her book: Best Friends Forever: Surviving a Breakup with Your Best Friend: http://amzn.to/NLTTr2     It's about female friends, but we'll be talking on the show about both male and female friendships.   Listen to all my fascinating guests every Sunday, 7-8pm Pacific, 10-11pm Eastern, with podcasts available afterward, at http://www.blogtalkradio.com/amyalkon

Amy Alkon's Advice Goddess Radio: "Nerd Your Way To A Better Life!" with the best brains in science.  Tonight, Dr. Donna Hicks on dignity -- how understanding dignity can improve your life, others' lives, and your relationships.   Dr. Hicks is a psychologist and conflict resolution specialist from Harvard’s Weatherhead Center for International Affairs.  Her terrific book we discuss on the show is “Dignity: The Essential Role It Plays In Resolving Conflict."   Join me and all my fascinating guests every week from 7-8pm Pacific, 10-11 pm Eastern. 

  Amy Alkon's Advice Goddess Radio -- "Nerd Your Way To A Better Life!" with the best brains in science. It's every Sunday, 7-8pm Pacific, 10-11pm Eastern, with podcasts available afterward.   Tonight, return guest Swarthmore professor Dr. Barry Schwartz on how to develop wisdom.    And before you think this is going to be some snooty intellectuals-only show...read on.    Plato is the snob philosopher -- the guy who thought wisdom was to be had by only by the intellectual elites.   Aristotle's my man -- the one who, like cognitive therapy founder Dr. Albert Ellis, believed wisdom was attainable by ordinary people.   And it is.    This evening, Dr. Barry Schwartz will explain how emotions, trained and modulated, are the key to being behaving wisely.   And, contrary to conventional "wisdom" that emotions should be kept out of business or professional decisions, Schwartz will lay out why that's not the case, and why "practical wisdom" is a key to both personal and relationship happiness.   His compelling book (complete with some moving stories) is "Practical Wisdom: The Right Way to Do the Right Thing." His co-author is poly-sci prof Dr. Kenneth Sharpe. Link to book on Amazon: http://amzn.to/Nhurvk   Join me and all my fascinating guests every Sunday at 7-8 p.m., Eastern and 10-11 p.m., Pacific, or download the podcast afterward at blogtalkradio.com/amyalkon    

Amy Alkon's Advice Goddess Radio: "Nerd your way to a better life!" with the best brains in science. A growing number of people know that they *should* eat low-carb and that science apparently says so, but they're light on the details, thanks especially to shoddy "science" reporting in mainstream media. My guest tonight will remedy that. He's Jeff S. Volek, Ph.D., RD, co-author, with Stephen D. Phinney, MD, Ph.D., of The Art and Science of Low Carbohydrate Living -- “the best low-carb book in print,” per Dr. Michael Eades (proteinpower.com/drmike), whom I greatly respect as a source of evidence-based dietary information. Eades blogged: “I can think of no better navigators (of the world of low-carb) than the authors of this book. Both of them have done a large part of the hardcore research on low-carb dieting that is in the medical literature today. ... Many of the experiments described in these papers are explained in easy to understand language in their book." Listen live at this link from 7-8 p.m. Pacific/10-11 p.m. Eastern, or download the podcast afterward. Join me and all my fascinating guests every Sunday at 7-8 p.m., Eastern and 10-11 p.m., Pacific, or download the podcast afterward at http://www.blogtalkradio.com/amyalkon

  Advice Goddess Radio -- "Nerd Your Way To A Better Life!" with the best brains in science -- with award-winning, nationally syndicated advice columnist Amy Alkon.   This week, I'm thrilled to announce that my guest is neuroeconomist Dr. Paul Zak, author of a fantastic book, The Moral Molecule: The Source of Love and Prosperity.    In his research on oxytocin, he's made some extremely exciting findings about morality, trust, and ways we can encourage moral and benevolent behavior in ourselves and others -- and not just in intimate relationships, but in politics, business, and society at large.   He's a wonderful writer and a fascinating speaker and I hope you'll tune in to hear him from 7-8 p.m. Pacific/10-11 p.m. Eastern at this link (or download the podcast there afterward)

  Amy Alkon's Advice Goddess Radio: "Nerd your way to a better life!" with the best brains in science.   I just spend four days hoovering up the latest in evolutionary psychology and anthropology research at the Human Behavior and Evolution Society conference in Albuquerque.    So, tonight, instead of my usual live radio show, I'm re-running a really popular show, that with Dr. Michael Eades and Dr. Mary Dan Eades, two of best people on science-based eating for weight loss and health, along with Gary Taubes (who will come on later in the summer).   The show will air at the usual time -- 7-8pm Pacific, 10-11pm Eastern -- and can be heard here then or afterward at this link.   We'll be live again next week with the best brains in science! 

*Show is at slightly different time this week -- an hour earlier, at 6pm Pacific, 9pm Eastern. Nationally syndicated advice columnist Amy Alkon's Advice Goddess Radio: "Nerd Your Way To A Better Life!" with the best brains in therapy and research. My guest tonight is psychologist Judith Sills, Ph.D. I don't like a lot of self-help books because I typically find them very much about the self of the writer and not all that helpful. (They also tend to be filled with annoyingly cutesy writing.) An exception is a book by Sills, "A Fine Romance: The Passage of Courtship from Meeting to Marriage." http://amzn.to/MwfANM In it, Sills busts a lot of the myths of how relationships work (like the myth that there's one right person for everyone), and has a fantastic chapter on managing ambivalence -- your own or that of a person you care about. Tonight show will lay out when to push and when to hold back in the process of developing a relationship, how to negotiate your differences and find a decent way to fight about them, negotiating commitment, and much more.  Listen live at this link or download after the show (click "Play in your default player"). And do call in with questions when the show is live -- 347-326-9761 Join me and all my fascinating guests live every week from 7-8pm Pacific, 10-11pm Eastern, at http://www.blogtalkradio.com/amyalkon

  Amy Alkon's Advice Goddess Radio: "Nerd Your Way To A Better Life!" with the best brains in therapy and research.   This week's guest is neither a therapist nor a researcher, but I couldn't resist having her on. My guest is my friend and former columnist colleague at the New York Daily News, Lenore Skenazy, who wrote the book Free-Range Kids, Giving Our Children the Freedom We Had Without Going Nuts with Worry -- and started the movement against helicopter parenting.   She's smart as hell and a snappy wit, so it'll be a terrific show. She'll talk about how insanely overprotective parenting has become, why it's become that way, and healthier ways of thinking. And she'll help parents learn how to break free of the push to keep kids strapped into a cushy chair at home, under close watch, until they're 27.    Buy her book here: http://amzn.to/Lcf0nl   Listen live at this link or download after the show (click "Play in your default player"). And do call in with questions when the show is live -- 347-326-9761   Join me and all my fascinating guests live every Sunday from 7-8pm Pacific, 10-11pm Eastern at http://www.blogtalkradio.com/amyalkon