Healing Life Tragedies requires Stalwart Resilience This world is putting us all to the test. If tragedy is not striking us directly, then relatives, friends and those we see on the nightly news remind us that “but, for the Grace of God, go I.” Or perhaps our struggles are just not in the news, but [...]
Awareness Is First Step Struggling with healing from emotional and physical injuries often becomes a long, drawn out process when the person doesn’t understand or even identify anger’s role. Anger can be a complication that may confuse the person about what is truly important, and prevent healing abilities from being the major focus. Anger about [...]
Continuing From The Last Post In the last post, a client writes about finally being free of her damaging behaviors that allowed a man to repeatedly hurt her. In this post she explains how she changed her behavior patterns for the good. She definitely will benefit from not being a slave to a person who [...]
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 [...]
Uplifting An Entire Community It’s one thing to raise your own quality of life by your actions. Quite another feat boosts an entire community’s life quality. It is only accomplished by hard work, the ability to dream, and a determination that your life is nothing without taking others with you on the journey. Virginia Terry [...]
Susan G. Komen Inspires All The spirit and belief in the power of the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer walk can enhance every part of your being! Sunday’s walk in Las Vegas was a moment of clarity when life’s purpose became more closely known. Involving ourselves in our community and actively participating, accelerates the power [...]
Finding Peace Through Self-Development Does the level of happiness or peace you feel give you a doorway to evaluate your quality of life? Can you look around your life and know what ratings you would assign to qualities of your life? Can you decide what you are missing, what goals you might set for yourself [...]
Changing The Zebra’s Stripes Too often passive and emotionally abused individuals don’t know how to get out of relationship patterns that are destructive. If the answers were obvious, they would have resolved the issues long ago, and gone on with their personal growth. They feel stuck and question if there even is a way out. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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