Inside Is A Real Person The old saying that you can’t tell a book by it’s cover is the essence of what it is to live as a disabled person. Whatever appears physically to be the disability doesn’t reveal the depths of emotion and struggle going on inside. The courage to face every day and [...]
Managing Stress Goes Beyond Learning Relaxation Techniques Stress is a given for everyone, as we all accept. Stress management, on the other hand, is done well by relatively few, and may take a change in the way you think about stress. A classic technique points to relaxation training, including using breathing, to calm the physical [...]
The Real Shame Is The Shame Itself! Admitting to depression is a difficult pill to swallow! So, I gathered, from watching journalist Mike Wallace and his wife, Mary, on public television this past week. The emotional pain of their admission was almost palpable as they described their struggle with Mike’s 3 bouts with depression. Evidently,the [...]
Stopping Obsessive Thinking After a therapy session focused on her distress about obsessive thoughts constantly running in her head, my client and I decided to try the rubber band thought-stopping technique: snap at each unwanted thought, insert a positive one in its place. She returned a month or so later, her regular appointment schedule due [...]
Confessions Of A Therapist In retrospect, if I had been offered only one tool to select for my therapist’s toolbox, teaching about and reinforcing the power of the human mind would win hands down. Drilling down even more specifically, the power of positive thinking would be the battle call for making change work for all [...]
New Fears That Personal Growth Hadn’t Taken The tremor laced each word in a client’s request for an appointment as soon as possible . When she walked into the office, tears welled slightly as she fought to regain control. It had been several months since her last check in to reinforce the significant gains she [...]
No Special Equipment Needed To Calm The Scared Self It’s as Easy as Breathing and Thinking to Overcome Stress. You already have all you need with you at this moment to master a crisis or an uncomfortable stress reaction. Incorporate the following tips into your repertoire of reactions that you can call on at any [...]
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