By: Kent Toussaint, MA MFT

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If you let your kid (and some of you probably do), I’ll bet he would sit in front of the TV or computer screen and blast mutant aliens, adventure to far away lands or score touchdowns all day long. In fact in his ideal world, all he needs is a feeding trough and a catheter and he’d never have to leave the couch! This is why video games can be your best friends. (more…)

By David W. Earle

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Our author today is David W. Earle, LPC, whose entire business is built around conflict. No, he is not a terrorist, but every one of his disciplines revolves around releasing the creative energy of conflict; use conflict correctly, and positive results are extremely likely. (more…)

By Jeanine Austin, Ph.D.

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In the Bible we read “And first there was the word”. After reading that often I think, “Then everything got really tricky!”

There are different ways of communicating which most of us are familiar with. There are probably others on the continuum, but the four basics modes of communication are: passive, assertive, passive-aggressive and aggressive. We are all working towards becoming assertive. I hear from a majority of my female clients that they struggle with being too passive. They are in fear of being assertive because they feel their assertions may come off as aggressive or as an attack on the other person. They don’t want to ruffle feathers, be unlikable or goodness forbid, plain old mean! However, if we don’t express our truth we become resentful and often passive-aggressive or even outright aggressive. (more…)