Dr. John V. Farrar
the snowman therapist

There comes a time when you have to stop crossing oceans for people who wouldn’t even jump a puddle for you. In the course of our lives, we evolve into many relationships.  These involve other people, of course, but can also have to do with other behavioral...

What you leave behind is not what is engraved in monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others. Pericles                   Does your cell phone ever get clogged with messages...

In the past, we have often written about the limitations of so called “binary thinking.” Such thought asks us to judge almost anything in one of two ways.  Right vs. wrong; truth vs lies; good vs. bad, etc.  We’ve previously stated that such a simple way of...

"I hated the distance between us .It left me unbalanced - like parts of myself were fading. As a trainer and supervisor of therapists, I see that new practitioners are often faced with a perplexing dilemma. In their zeal to be successful and helpful to their clients,...

In 1986, the movie The Natural was made, based upon a novel written by Bernard Malamud in 1952. The film was highly successful, based upon its appeal to sports fans (baseball) and featuring attractive movie stars (Redford, Basinger and Close). But the film and novel have a strongly spiritual and allegorical quality that transcends its entertainment value.

What’s a Yugo? My readers, ages 50 and below, are probably asking that question. The Yugo was an imported vehicle from eastern Europe, becoming very popular initially, based upon its low selling price and the promise of good MPG. I say “initially” because the little...

Many years ago, a very good friend and mentor of mine passed away unexpectedly. His name was Glen, and he was a football coach. Many of us have an unfair tendency to see those of such occupations as intellectual lightweights, but Glen was an exception to that...