Monday, March 28, 2016

Psychotherapy Can Help to Overcome the Effects of Growing Up in a Family that Doesn't Talk About Their Feelings

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Over the years, I've had many clients that have said they grew up in families that didn't talk about their feelings.  Often, these i...
Monday, March 21, 2016

Learning to Communicate Effectively With Your Therapist

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In a prior article, I discussed how there are often ruptures and repairs in therapy between clients and their therapist (see my article: Rup...
Monday, March 14, 2016

Clients Struggling With Shame Can Leave Therapy Abruptly

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In an earlier article, Healing Shame in Therapy , I addressed how feelings of shame often bring clients into therapy.  Shame is often at the...
Monday, March 7, 2016

Coping with the Sudden Realization That You Don't Really Know Your Spouse

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In an earlier article,  Movies: "45 Years:" An Old Secret Haunts a Loving Long Term Marriage , I discussed how events from the dis...
Wednesday, March 2, 2016

Movies: "45 Years": An Old Secret Haunts a Loving Long-Term Marriage

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In the movie, 45 Years , an old secret, which is suddenly thrust upon them, haunts an older married couple, who were, seemingly, happily mar...
Monday, February 29, 2016

An Emotional Problem You Thought You Resolved Gets Triggered Again

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It's not unusual for people to revisit emotional problems in therapy that they thought they had already worked through at an earlier tim...
Monday, February 22, 2016

Being the Different One in Your Family

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In a prior article,   The Role of the Family Scapegoat in Dysfunctional Families , I discussed how the family scapegoat is usually made to f...