Archive for the ‘ Personal Growth ’ Category
Any addictions counselor worth their salt, will ask a client trying to maintain their recovery to compile a list of triggers for their possible relapse. For example, weddings can be a huge trigger for people in the beginning of recovery…..all that free booze floating around is a terrible temptation or trigger for potential trouble. All [ READ MORE ]
“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” Anais Nin Therapy is NOT about trying to take something away from you. We are all lopsided in various ways. I’m a risk taker & not as good at being careful. Growing to have more range means improving my risk taking nature to include more possibilities [ READ MORE ]
Wondering what career to invest yourself in? It’s hard to figure out what you might want to do for the rest of your life. It’s a very daunting task. Lots of people drown in the overwhelmingness of it. Kids in college struggle with whether or not they’ve made the right choice & wandering from major [ READ MORE ]
The more interesting people are the more likely they are to be open to all kinds of opportunities to be creative. The triggers for creativity are varied: Economic problems in Greece help people create ways to cope with new evolving bartering networks, with Putin to remain in power many Russians are becoming creative by emigrating [ READ MORE ]
“A good definition of soul is the part of you that wants to belong to the world in the biggest way you can.” -David Whyte, poet “Well I want somebody to tell me, Answer if you can, I want somebody to tell me, Just what is THE SOUL OF A MAN ?” -lyrics by Eric [ READ MORE ]
There is a HUGE GAP between our expectations & reality. We are all experts at avoiding reality because it is often harsh. A lot of therapy is finding the courage to face reality & make the pain bearable. I’ve found facing reality to be life affirming. One instance might be; when someone is dying of [ READ MORE ]
When I was a kid playing outdoors in the 50′s & early 60′s none of our parents knew where we were or what we were up to. I laughed out loud, watching an early episode of Mad Men when Don Draper’s daughter was spinning around with a plastic bag on her head and her mom [ READ MORE ]
Many women & some men sublimate their own needs in order to take care of others. I believe caretaking of others works best when balanced by being grounded in a solid sense of self. So many women come to my office depressed, & very disconnected from themselves after their kids leave for college. Feminism was [ READ MORE ]
I will begin by admitting I do not have the best relationship with poetry. Sadly enough, the years I read poems in The New Yorker and did not understand them, encouraged me to remain ignorant. I have since learned I enjoy hearing a poet read, it’s an experience that makes an impact. Now I am [ READ MORE ]
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