Michael R. Mantell, Ph.D. is a retired psychologist, best-selling author, international speaker, and a highly sought after cognitive behavioral coach whose actionable, valuable and practical work has been featured on Fox News, ABC-TV, NBC-TV, CBS-TV, The New York Times, and The Huffington Post. He has been teaching how Torah’s wisdom can lead to optimal living for many decades. You can follow him on Facebook and in other social media, where he has posted the #MantellDaily5 everyday for years.
His books, available on Amazon, include:
By Michael R. Mantell, Ph.D. SAN DIEGO — OK, before you go all holier than thou critical, or laugh so hard you can’t pay attention to this content of this article, here’s what being “All FFF’d Up” means when it comes to the secret sauce of being fit. It means if you are going to […]
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Michael Mantell, Travel and FoodBy Michael R. Mantell, Ph.D. SAN DIEGO — The self-help blogs and media are filled with useful information about positive psychology, becoming your best self, leading the good life, and the value and benefits of being optimistic, positive and hopeful. It’s next to impossible–from more than 3000 years of Judaism’s wisdom on happiness to Joel
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Michael MantellBy Michael R. Mantell, Ph.D. SAN DIEGO — There is healing power in the medicine of laughter and play. Living with stress, feeling uptight, being worried, not sleeping, and thinking limiting thoughts, kill the joy in your life—as well as your health and wellbeing. One of the best anti-stress medicines we have is free, has
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Michael Mantell, Science, Medicine, & EducationBy Michael Mantell, PhD SAN DIEGO — Sure, you may be thinking that word might be “hate,” “poverty,” “illness,” or “death.” No, these words are mild compared to the life-sucking, contentment-robbing, depression-boosting, anxiety-causing and anger-building word I’m thinking of. That word is “should.” In the wonderful words of my mentor and teacher, Albert Ellis, Ph.D.,
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Michael MantellBy Michael R. Mantell, Ph.D. SAN DIEGO –A Jewish young man was seeing a psychologist for an eating and sleeping disorder. “I am so obsessed with my mother… As soon as I go to sleep, I start dreaming, and everyone in my dream turns into my mother. I wake up in such a state, all
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By Michael Mantell, PhD DEL MAR, California — This year, the theme of the San Diego County Fair is “It All Started At a Fair.” Since the first World’s Fair “Great Exhibition” in 1851, in London, and then from about 100 years ago when San Diego’s Balboa Park became part of the World’s Fair
Editor’s Note: San Diego Jewish World is fortunate to have among its contributors the authors of many books. To acquaint you with them, and their literary output, we will from time to time offer articles by the authors telling of their works. This article is by Dr. Michael Mantell, an Advanced Behavior Coach based in San Diego. By
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Michael MantellBy Michael R. Mantell, Ph.D. SAN DIEGO — Child sex abuse in an Orthodox Jewish community, indeed in any community, is not an easy topic to discuss. It isn’t an easy topic to write about either, especially in a Jewish publication. But when Judy Bloom Friedel called and asked if I would moderate a panel
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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish Religion, Michael Mantell, Science, Medicine, & EducationBy Michael Mantell, PhD SAN DIEGO — Here’s the choice we all have. We can either be a part of the 80% of Americans who don’t eat properly, sleep enough, make time for healthy relaxation, don’t spend quality and quantity time with friends and loved ones, and simply live in the illusion of health. This group
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Michael Mantell, Travel and FoodBy Michael Mantell, PhD SAN DIEGO — Remember when the technology experts tried to sell us on the notion that all of their gadgets would free us up, give us more leisure time and make life so much more enjoyable? We’ve been fooled into thinking that being offered the opportunity to “telecommute,” or work from anywhere
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Michael MantellBy Michael Mantell, Ph.D TECATE, Mexico — It’s been said, “No man needs a vacation as much as the one who just had one.” Not in my case. I’m away right now, as an invited speaker on how to extend longevity, at the world famous, top-rated, destination fitness and integrative wellness spa, Rancho La Puerta, where a
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Michael Mantell, Travel and FoodBy Michael Mantell, Ph.D. SAN DIEGO — A recent Pew Research Center study of modern parenthood found that more than half of parents say they find it very or somewhat difficult to juggle work and family life. Dads are doing more housework and more moms are being are being paid for working out of the home.
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Michael MantellBy Michael R. Mantell, Ph.D SAN DIEGO — There is no such thing as stress. Got that? Good. Then why are you wasting so much of your time with “stress management” programs, lectures, coaches, books, articles and websites? Could it be because you really don’t believe that there’s no such thing as stress? Oh, I
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Michael MantellBy Michael R. Mantell, PhD SAN DIEGO — I’m convinced that if there was a drug that offered all of the benefits that play does, it’d be the biggest seller on the planet. But who needs to buy a pill when play is free, available 24 hours a day, and no prescription is ever needed? Plato
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