New Ways To View Therapy
The most valuable way to decide whether therapy would be useful for you is to know your own central reason for retaining a therapist. Among your basic reasons …
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Caps Off to the Graduate!
Caps are flying everywhere, and graduates are excited, and scared at the same time. They are moving on to the next phase of their lives. Some will be …
Graduate To Yourself
In case you will be at a graduation ceremony and feel restless while waiting to hear the name of your graduate, here is a meaningful way to pass the time. …
Unconditional Love
I moved away from home at 19! Actually, they moved away from me. Have 8 younger siblings and after my first year of college, my family moved half way across …
Loving Your Mother Who Didn’t Love You
This painful sounding title describes a dilemma many people face. The well meaning yet distracted advice that “your mother loved you in the best way she knew …
Mother’s Day is Not for Everyone
Mother’s Day is hard for many people. They want to do the right thing, and they can’t find a card for their mother that doesn’t aggrandize a …
Getting Help Before Disaster Strikes in Your Marriage
There are so many people who come to therapy because they are very angry. They do not feel important, because they are not heard, their needs are not being …
How to Protect Yourself from an Abusive Senior Patient
I talked to a 68-year-old lady a few weeks ago. She was a full-time in-home caregiver for an 89-year-old who happened to be her mother-in-law, the mother of …
The Strength of Parenting Love
Sometimes the most meaningful factors in a situation are not obvious. In raising children the most meaningful factor is the strength and drive which parental …
Change as a Choice
Change is a topic we can address forever because it’s always happening! And we, as humans, are usually averse to it. There is a coherence to sameness that we …