The Pain behind Everyone’s Smile
If you’ve ever felt sad, pressured, lonely, unsure or in emotional shock about a certain relationship circumstance, you belong among the group of people who …
Prescription for a Complex World
Most people are so busy they become unaware of the beneficial things all around them. Traffic jams, cell phones, deadlines, unexpected problems, caring for …
Speak with the (Therapy) Chef before Ordering from the Menu
There are countless varieties of therapy models and most have believers convinced one type is better than another. Research of a few decades ago concluded that …
Turn Regret into Deeper Self-Knowledge
All of us have felt embarrassed, uneasy and even some sense of shame about the way we handled ourselves in a particular situation or relationship. This sense …
How Family Therapy Helps People
Since a good amount of the difficulty and tension we feel about ourselves and within our interactions with others is rooted in qualities which developed during …
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 …
Who is That Voice In Your Head? Mind Chatter
If you are like most people, there is this little voice in your head constantly talking to you. It’s known as mind chatter. From the moment we open our …
Through a Glass Darkly: A Way to Understand Depression
The phrase ‘through a glass darkly’ is from the Bible, “12 For now we see through a glass, darkly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; …
The Main Reason People in Therapy Are Diagnosed
Our human body systems are similar and predictable enough in response to disease and illness that physicians are able to study how medical symptoms develop and …
Self Esteem, The Not So Silent Killer
When I think of the bright, successful people who don’t experience themselves as successful, who always feel they need to do more than what is expected, …