Leigh W. Jerome Ph.D.

About

Leigh W. Jerome, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist, artist, and the founder and executive director of the non-profit art gallery and forum, Relational Space, with the mission to build a more just and sustainable world, inspired by art and informed through truth.

Recent Posts

Why Does It Hurt to Feel Lonely?

Loneliness can be painful, with profound physiologic and psychological impacts. Understanding the factors associated with loneliness can help you manage it.

For Valentine's Day, Learn Your Mind-Body's Love Language

Our mind and body are intertwined and work bi-directionally. Interoception is our inner sense of perceiving the mind-body connection.

How to Resolve Most Any Conflict: The Solution

By mastering five steps, you can disentangle from the conflict escalation cycle and learn to communicate better and resolve problems positively.

How to Resolve Most Any Conflict: The Problem

While we believe what we say to others is generally understood, close to 75% of all communication is misunderstood due to biases, assumptions, expectations, and perceptual filters.

How You Can Tame a Raging Fight-or-Flight Response

Learn how to navigate a fierce fight-or-flight response and target stress, anxiety, and panic in real time to reverse the cascade and re-establish homeostasis.

Learn how to navigate a fierce fight-or-flight response and target stress, anxiety, and panic in real time to reverse the cascade and re-establish homeostasis.

From Melting Minds to United Hearts

Does extreme heat impact your mood & behavior? Climate events can cause devastating effects to individual minds & bodies and the health of our collective community.

Does extreme heat impact your mood & behavior? Climate events can cause devastating effects to individual minds & bodies and the health of our collective community.

Why Ghosting Is a Form of Relational Aggression

Relationship transitions can be difficult, and avoidance may seem an attractive way out, but ghosting is an unhealthy form of relational aggression that is fundamentally unkind.

Relationship transitions can be difficult, and avoidance may seem an attractive way out, but ghosting is an unhealthy form of relational aggression that is fundamentally unkind.

How to Transcend Self-Doubt and Negative Self-Talk

Self-talk is the internal dialogue that narrates our days as either a voice of promise and self-love or a punitive critic that imposes self-doubt.

Self-talk is the internal dialogue that narrates our days as either a voice of promise and self-love or a punitive critic that imposes self-doubt.

How to Coax Post-Traumatic Growth

The impact of trauma and the way it is processed is different for everyone, but our minds and bodies want to heal. Transformational growth is possible.

The impact of trauma and the way it is processed is different for everyone, but our minds and bodies want to heal. Transformational growth is possible.

How to Recognize Negative Thought Cycles and Stop Obsessing

Our brains are wired to focus on and give more weight to negative information. Learning a few simple techniques can help reduce negativity and obsessional thinking.

Our brains are wired to focus on and give more weight to negative information. Learning a few simple techniques can help reduce negativity and obsessional thinking.