Monday, December 10, 2012

Practicing Tolerance and Compassion in Your Relationship

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Long term relationships can be challenging to maintain.  They require work and a lot of patience, tolerance and compassion.  Two of the bigg...
Saturday, December 8, 2012

Healing Shame in Psychotherapy

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Shame is an emotional that seems to be experienced by people regardless of their culture and origin.  We can begin to feel shame even as an ...
Friday, December 7, 2012

Intergenerational Trauma: Recurring Nightmares

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For many years, a friend of mine, Ann (not her real name), was having a recurring nightmare, which was very close to a dream she heard abo...
Thursday, December 6, 2012

Psychotherapy: Making the Unconscious Conscious

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Often, when clients begin psychotherapy, they discover that there are many aspects of themselves that they are unaware of, especially if the...

Self Soothing Techniques to Cope With Stress

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As I've mentioned in prior blog posts, usually when clients begin psychotherapy with me, I like to know what  emotional resources they ...
Wednesday, December 5, 2012

Setbacks Are a Normal Part of Therapy on the Road to Healing

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It often comes as a surprise to psychotherapy clients that setbacks are a normal part of any effort to change, including efforts to change i...
Saturday, December 1, 2012

Are You Too Afraid to Talk to Your Spouse About What's Bothering You?

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Couples who come for counseling often reveal that they were too afraid to talk to their spouses about things that were bothering them about ...