My friend has been walking carefully through life, since her first encounter with breast cancer. Here is her story, told in her words. Her surgery was yesterday. The Other Shoe Fell, But, It Landed Gently! Breast Cancer–two words every woman never wants to hear. When you do hear it, you pray to never hear two [...]
Let’s Put it In A Bottle And Sell It On The Street Corner Capturing a formula for zestful living is like trying to deify “one size fits all.” We each know intriguing persons who epitomize a zest for life. Their essence is somewhat inexplicable, yet you can usually point to some fairly concrete behaviors, and [...]
The Worst Of Long Distance Relationships Lest we forget, war takes a horrible toll on all touched. This post is dedicated to the one who is left behind, support is his main mission, and to the one who goes to war. Not being a military psychologist, I treat those who bravely wave goodbye, knowing their [...]
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 [...]
Discovering Your Wise Inner Voice Before I even started to speak, I knew that the twinkle in my eye had given it away. He has been a client for a long time. He had had numerous traumas eating at him from his childhood when he first began personal growth therapy several years ago. We methodically [...]
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 [...]
