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When Life Is Overwhelming
When Life Gets to Feeling Like it's All Too Much Are you at the point where you're just done hearing what other people have to say? Has it ever reached the Read more
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The Family, It's Stories and Myths
The family story: Do you know where your grandparents grew up? Do you know where your mom and dad went to high school? Do you know where your parents met? Read more
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The Tragedy of Suicide
The Tragedy of Suicide Suicide is tragic. It cuts a life short and devastates the family, friends, and loved ones left behind. The children of people who die by suicide are Read more
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Managing Anger and Stress
He was my uncle. He lived to be 83 years old. But, ten years before his death, he suffered a myocardial infarction that ultimately killed him. He had a hair-trigger Read more
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Psychiatric Service Dogs, Very Special Dogs
What are service dogs? *The ADA defines a service dog as “any dog that is individually trained to do work or perform tasks for the benefit of an individual with a Read more
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Understanding Resentment
"Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned." Buddha Case: "He is 40 years old. Read more
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Mindfulness, Living in the Present and Reducing Stress
Dalai Lama "He said, "There are only two days in the year that nothing can be done. One is called yesterday and the other is called tomorrow, so today so today is the right Read more
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Couples, Conflicts and How to Fight Fair
Quarrels occur from time to time in anyone who is married or in a committed, intimate relationship. For some couples, these times are few, while for others, they are frequent. Read more
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Loss, Grief, and Being Elderly
Loss, Grief, and Being Elderly Poem by JOHN DONNE, 1633 Death Be Not Proud "Death, be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so; For those whom thou Read more
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Holidays, Family, Conflict
Holidays and Family Conflict Many clients in my practice look upon their visits to family gatherings at holiday times with lots of ambivalence and even trepidation. Instead of the visit with Read more
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Shopping: Is the Glass Half Full or Half Empty?
Shopping: Understanding Envy and Elation: It's the Holidays, so now we shop, but somehow we never feel as though the shopping bag is full. Envy is often rooted in low self-esteem and Read more
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Perception, So, You Believe You are Correct?
We see things differently Read more
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Scapegoat, the Sacrificial Lamb
"The psychoanalytic theory holds that unwanted thoughts and feelings can be unconsciously projected onto another, who then becomes a scapegoat for one's own problems." "It's too easy to criticize a man when Read more
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Obsessive Thinking and the Problem of Indecision
Did you ever have difficulty deciding? Every day we are forced to make choices whether we think about it. Some of us have little difficulty with this. In contrast, others Read more
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A Distorted Way of Thinking, Confirmation Bias
"Never let the truth get in the way of a good story." Mark Twain Colorado and the nation just faced another mass shooting when a gun-carrying man entered a nightclub Read more
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Of Laughing and Laughter
There has been little to laugh about during the last couple of years. These were years of crisis with the Covid Pandemic, Economic downturn, supply chain problems, families and their Read more