Ways out of Drowning: Four Ways to Respond to Troubling Memories, Thoughts, and Feelings

By Adam J. Pearson Yesterday, I noticed shame, sadness, and embarrassment arising from an old memory coming back to haunt me. It is a memory that I have had to confront many times in the past. And yet, it still holds some power over me. When it comes into the light of consciousness, it tends…

The Allure of Complexity: Reflections on Scorsese’s A Wolf of Wall Street

By Adam Pearson As a great fan of Martin Scorsese’s masterful crime films, Casino, Goodfellas, and Taxi Driver, and an equally admiring appreciator of the acting skill of Leonardo Di Caprio, The Wolf of Wall Street was a film I simply had to see.  I left the film feeling a great mixture of contradictory feelings,…