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Wanting to Stop
Have had several people in the last week ask me specific questions about wanting to stop (sometimes called “abstaining” or “cessation”) doing some “behavior”. Drinking, smoking, gambling,...
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Transformation.
So, we can’t heal what we can’t feel. If we’re really trying to transform “depression” (not a feeling, but a diagnosis), “anxiety” (another non-feeling), grief and loss, abuse, abandonment and neglect...
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Therapy is Not the Answer
This is sort of a PSA for clients and therapists alike. Therapy is not the answer to our problems of relationships, depression, grief/loss, addiction, taking food from others, communication, our sense...
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Who’s To Blame?
Much of my time is spent here, and in my therapy/counseling practice, attempting to get folk to honor how they feel. That’s an oversimplification, but will leave it for brevity’s sake. This is a...
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Preaching Prudence but Practicing Evasion
Just by virtue of having eyes and ears, we have emotional responses to everything. When we have experiences that create loss, damage, violate our sense of self or ethics (prompt an experience of...
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Attitude of Platitude
Talking with a client the other day, the subject of platitudes came up. Many of us use them routinely. Whether opining about inferences made, used polemically, or giving feedback to a friend or loved...
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Depression, Shame, Community, Intimacy
Though depression, shame, fear, anger, pain and the things that cause them (abuse, abandonment, loss) keep me in a job (some of you know I think it my job to put me out of a job), another thing that...
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Therapy, Counseling, Mental Health: Things That Put Me OUT of Work
My last piece of course is begging for a follow up. If there’s semi-tangible things that put me in a job, there should be some things that will put me out of a job, so to speak. Ideas, principles,...
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From the “Something That Came Up Today” Department… More on “Stopping”
Truth, it comes up a lot. We’re all trying to “give up” some stuff, trying to stop doing some things, but often have difficulty doing it. Aside from a blog I wrote about this a while ago, we might...
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What the Heck is “Euthymia”, and Why Should I Care?
Before getting into details, let’s make note of this: I’m altering the definition of the term as a way of creating a framework that allows us to look at something we don’t hear enough about in...
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