Resolutions or Intentions: Which Lead to Genuine Change?
Do New Year’s resolutions actually work? If so, why do so many people abandon theirs so quickly? In this month’s Psychology Today article I break down the differences between resolutions, goals, and intentions and what works best in which circumstances.
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A Year-Round Attitude of Gratitude
Read my latest article in Psychology Today, I deep dive into gratitude as an SI capacity, including its remarkable ability to rewire our brains. Discover how this powerful practice can enhance every aspect of your life—all year round.
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How Trust Impacts Our Relationships With Ourselves, Others, and Life
See my latest on Psychology Today, where I share how a client learned to trust himself amid a funding crisis, transforming his life and career. I explore how trust—grounded in attachment theory and research—shapes relationships, boosts confidence, and fuels resilience.
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My Path to Spiritual Intelligence
Check out the first installment of my new blog series on Psychology Today! In it, I discuss my own path to SI—how every step was valuable in building the foundation for the insights I can now share with all of you.
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CAREERS IN GOVERNMENT
Check out “Spiritual Intelligence: Celebrating the ‘Service’ in Public Service,” my new article in Careers in Government, an exchange of news and information that reaches over 20 million Americans involved in the public sector.
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META MINDS THERAPY
Read my latest piece in Meta Minds Therapy, titled “Integrating Spiritual Intelligence into Psychotherapy: Five Key Capacities for Transformative Healing.” In it, I share SI can serve as a excellent framework for psychotherapy.
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SPIRITUAL MEDIA BLOG ARTICLE
Read my new piece “Spiritual Intelligence as a Calling: How I Became a CEO and Then Walked Away.” In it, I describe how, while serving as a CEO for the first time, I experienced a dark night of the soul which morphed into a spiritual crisis, and how the spiritual awakening, manic episode, and resulting trauma changed the course of my life forever.
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StartupGuys Magazine
Read my article in StartupGuys (an online magazine devoted to helping early-stage entrepreneurs with startup business plans, marketing, funding, scaling, and growth) called, “Discovering Your Company’s Vision: A CEO’s Guide.”
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Authority magazine
Read my recent interview in Authority Magazine (an online magazine devoted to sharing in-depth, and interesting interviews, featuring people who are authorities in Business, Pop Culture, Wellness, Social Impact, and Tech) called, “The New Portrait Of Leadership: Yosi Amram On Which Legacy Ideas About Leadership Need To Be Discarded, And Which New Approaches To Leadership Should Be Embraced.”
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Smartbrief article
Read my recent post in SmartBrief (an online outlet with a reach of 6 million executives and 250,000 daily visitors to their leadership page) called, “Cultivate spiritual intelligence as a leader to inspire and empower.”
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The Manifesto for True Masculinity
We men are troubled by the violence that men have perpetuated against women over millennia, recently brought into the spotlight by #MeToo. What many of us don’t recognize is how much we too are damaged by the harm we’ve inflicted, whether it was against women, our male brothers, or any others. trueMASCULINITY.org wishes to address the enormous challenge of ending this legacy of violence, stopping the suffering, protecting all of us from harm, and helping us open our hearts to love.
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No Shame in Shame: True Masculinity and the Power of Love
Once, after the passing of a well-respected elder in my family, I was told a gut-wrenching rumor about him. The claim was that he had behaved in a sexually inappropriate manner to one of our relatives years ago when she was a teenager. The deceased and I were very close, so it shook me to my core — what harm did he inflict exactly? I sought more information directly from the source, but she wouldn’t elaborate further, finding the experience too painful. I admit, my first impulse was to challenge, deny, or minimize the allegations. If this relative with whom I was so close did in fact cause such injury, what did that say about me? Was I capable of the same?
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Our Original Sin: Modern Psycho-Spiritual Lessons from Adam and Eve on Shame, Gender, and Sex
Growing up in a practicing Jewish family, I often felt overwhelmed observing the vast history of violence and trauma inflicted in the name of Judeo-Christian religions, particularly as it pertained to gender. I viewed Western religions as stringent and outdated and for spiritual nourishment, I turned to the East. Buddhist meditations in mindfulness, kundalini yoga, and non-dualistic teachings like Advaita Vedanta seemed much more appealing to me, their sex-positive philosophies in stark contrast to the repressed, heteronormative views of most religious people in the Western world.
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“In Their Image” We Were Made: The Gender of Our True Nature
What do we mean when we say that humans were created “in God’s image”? The line is one of the most commonly referenced from the Bible, yet there is little knowledge of its full context in Genesis. As I detailed in my previous piece, I set out on a journey to investigate those early passages in the Bible myself, drawing from my knowledge of psychology, my studies of Eastern spiritual traditions, and Kabbalah and Jewish mysticism (as well as my personal experience growing up in a Jewish household with an observant grandfather).
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From Reality to Morality: Spirituality and the Role of Our Superego
Have you ever told yourself, “I shouldn’t have done that”? Have you ever called yourself lazy, stupid, or selfish? If you’re like most, this painful sort of self-criticism is inevitably familiar. So, why do we do this to ourselves? Why can’t we seem to help it? Why do we, despite all intentions of being kinder towards ourselves, cast such harsh judgments on who we are and what we do? This is the expression of our “superego.”
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