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 [...]
