Amy Wood's Blog

On Saturday I was one of eight women who braved a surprise snowstorm to attend a lecture at Kennebooks, a bookstore in Kennebunk. The speaker was psychologist and life coach Amy Wood, author of the book "Life Your Way."…. There's nothing sexy or innovative about her 10 principles; they're just good, commonsense advice that bears [...]

It's that time of year again for me and psychologists everywhere. The New Year is picking up momentum and our phones are ringing off the hook with calls from New Year's resolution enthusiasts who haven't been able to follow through on their good intentions. Read more…

As a psychologist in December, I get a lot of questions about typical holiday concerns.  Pulling off Christmas without running out of money, energy, and time is a big challenge for most of my clients.  But what really piles on stress for people at this time of year is pressure to live up to pervasive [...]

Everywhere we go – the internet, the book store, the grocery store check-out line – carefully crafted headlines fight to sell us on the implausible yet tempting idea that we can have, be and do whatever we want by next month, this Friday, right this minute.  All we have to do is simply stop trying [...]

Life Your Way by Amy Wood is the "real deal," an authentic self-help book with an inviting professional style that is indubitably inspiring and downright rational—a pearl of practical wisdom among the swells of personal transformation writings flooding the information age. Furthermore, Wood's personable tone, knack for story-telling, and succinct writing techniques are the perfect [...]

Amy Wood is one of those talented women who can do just about anything. After spending the first part of her career in the high-pressure world of Chicago advertising, she shifted gears. That's when she enrolled in Chicago's Adler School of Professional Psychology – earned her degree – and became a psychologist! When she's not [...]

Listen to Amy discuss her book Life Your Way on Mind Your Own Business Radio. Dr. Wood discusses how the world has become more complicated, and the importance of changing tactics to avoid the overwhelm of modern day's many choices.  To listen go to the link below.  Amy speaks in the last quarter of the [...]

Read Dr. Wood's article in The Boomer Brief: Making the Most of Your Mid-Life Adolescence.  This article focuses on myths of aging.  "…Clients operate under the outdated idea that the older you get, the less you have to look forward to. It's a shame these clients haven't figured out that the opposite is actually true…There [...]

Author Q & A: The fix is in you: Maine psychologist Amy Wood has written a new self-help book that, rather than overpromise, actually empowers the reader.