Wonderful Video About Life
Life. What can we say we have learned? Watch this video as Anne Lamott challenges us all to consider this question....
One Year After My Therapist Retired
Losing a therapist for any reason can feel like there has been a significant death in the family....
Taking Responsibility for Our Actions: Grasping Some of the Hardest Concepts in Life
Taking responsibility for our lives isn't easy, but it is necessary to live a happy and well-adjusted life. ...
Facing Triggers and Fear Head-On
Triggers and the fear they bring can be overcome, but only if one faces them head-on....
Making Halloween Just a Day on the Calendar After SRA
I understand that many people who were harmed as children in ritual abuse, find Halloween a very hard day. Facing what happened on a day to day basis is hard enough, but a high day such as Halloween conjures memories that can be overwhelming. I Propose A New Way...
Three Basic Choices All Humans Face in Life
We all have three basic choices in life, give up, give in, or give it all you've got. ...
POLICE OFFICERS AND THOSE IN A MENTAL HEALTH CRISIS
Police officers are trained to be authority figures, but these tactics often do not work on a person who is mentally compromised. What follows can be disastrous, not just for the mentally ill person, but for the police officer as well. ...
Domestic Violence Awareness Month
It is 2017, and we as a nation still have a silent epidemic that we don’t want to talk about. Domestic Violence. I can’t tell you how sad it makes me to have to post this page. You would think with all our advancements, and all our knowledge, we...
Embracing Change
Change is a part of life none of us can escape. From the day we are born until the day we die, we will face changes in our lives. Some of these transformations will be ones we will easily embrace, others not so much. To be terrified of change...
I’ve Met With Some Success!
I’ve had some major success lately and I wanted you all to know about it. I wrote an article about the misconceptions clients sometimes have about the abilities of their therapists and it was published in a major therapy journal! The MedCrave Addiction Medicine and Therapy Journal published my...
In Case You Missed It!
Below you’ll find a picture of the key concepts learned from the Who Moved My Cheese Video I posted the other day. What lessons!! If you haven’t watched it yet, you really should take a few minutes and do so. It is marvelous! [wpvideo uhh2rf89]...
Escaping from the Cage of Childhood Trauma
I’ve spent a lot of time trapped in my own morass of emotions. True, the traumatic things that happened in my childhood first put me in the quagmire of self-pity and fear I have lived in, but later in life I chose of my own volition to remain there....