By David W. Earle
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David Wright (Wright)- Interviewer
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. Read the rest of this entry »
By David W. Earle
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“Watch me grow, Mommy!” the five year old daughter of Joy Irwin exclaimed. Her small child was tip-toeing up over the cabinet to see her little face in the mirror. After each stretching exercise she exclaimed, “Watch me grow Mommy!” Her mother was busy getting ready for work with lunches to pack, hair to brush, and changing the diapers on the youngest. “Watch me grow, Mommy!” She exclaimed again with the intensity and the receptiveness that only a five-year old can inflict upon parents. Read the rest of this entry »
By Patti Desert, LCSW-C, CEMDR, CP
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People suffering anxiety often focus on fearful thoughts of losing control or going crazy. Thoughts can trigger anxiety but it is the body’s response to the threat conveyed by our thoughts or our senses that accounts for anxiety. In other words, anxiety is the felt sensation of our body reacting in some distressing way. Some of those reactions include: increased heart rate, sweating, trembling, shortness of breath, choking sensation, tightness in chest or elsewhere in body, nausea, dizziness, numbness, chills or hot flushes. Fortunately, it is through breath therapy that we have a means to calm our body and relieve the pain. Read the rest of this entry »
By: Greg Madison Ph.D.
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Abstract - Community Care is often seen as an enlightened and
compassionate response to the needs of the mentally distressed.
However, a discussion of the development of community care
policy and a look at attitudes of the community to those
experiencing distress suggest that this is not so. Uncaring
community attitudes seem to be a result of current policy. The
tragedy at Dunblane highlights the urgent need for a return to the
original philosophy of care in the community. This philosophy
maintains that a policy of mental health care is inseparable from
social policy on the whole. This paper is presented in the spirit of
encouraging existential-phenomenological therapists to attend to
the realm of social critique by describing the nature of our
communities and their impact upon our clients and ourselves. By
developing a phenomenological way of addressing the context of
our interactions with others, could we develop a valuable social
dimension to our work as therapists? Read the rest of this entry »
By: Shawn
“Learn untold things about relationships that will absolutely boggle your mind - things you thought never matter. You are going to discover what you don’t know… that you don’t know!” Read the rest of this entry »
By: Joe Soll, LCSW
Without blaming anyone, I suggest we take a look at the respect missing in adoption. To start with, we need to look at the beginning. The beginning was birth and separation for the mother and child. For the adoptive parents, the beginning was the discovery of being infertile or being unable to bring a child into the family any other way. Read the rest of this entry »
By: Mitchell Milch
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Watch Jane or Bob max out on their credit cards. Is that their partner Jim or Mary registering a feeble protest? Listen to Spot bark and scratch his neck in befuddlement when Jim or Mary pay off the abused credit cards and then, look stunned when the sun rises on another spending spree? Was Spot’s ears playing tricks on him when after one of Jane or Bob’s rants about their partners not contributing enough to their respective households, then agreeing to take out a loan to renovate their kitchen? Could it be that this actually came out of Jim and Mary’s mouths; the same Jim and Mary who are in charge of the finances and know full well they will once again have to rob Peter to pay Paul this month? Did Spot really hear Jim and Mary say to Jane and Bob after screaming at Jane and Bob: “Don’t worry about the finances I’ve got matters under control?” Is insanity reining king and queen with these folks? Read the rest of this entry »
By: Roz Van Meter, MA, LMFT, AASECT diplomate
SELECTION SNAGS AND SNARES TO BEWARE OF
Many a woman has tripped over some of these—maybe several of them, several times—before she woke up and smelled the coffee.
Rehab Project: Believing a fixer-upper will become kind/romantic/trustworthy/fair/sober/adult through the magic of being with you. Particularly dangerous when your goal is to make someone else happy. Can’t be done. Your love can only help create an environment in which he’ll be happy if he decides to. Read the rest of this entry »
By: Gabriele M Smith, MA
1. BELIEVE you can accomplish your goal.
2. VISUALIZE your success. Read the rest of this entry »
By: Carol L. Skolnick
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There is a teaching story from the Eastern tradition in which a guru instructs his devotee, “My child, sit in meditation, but whatever you do, do not meditate on a monkey.” Of course, the thought of a monkey comes to awareness and the disciple discovers he can focus on nothing else. Meditation teachers are familiar with this phenomenon of “monkey mind,” yet, contrary to the story, many teach that it is necessary and even possible to bypass the mind. Read the rest of this entry »