Monday, April 25, 2016

Freeing Yourself From Family Expectations and Beliefs That Are Harmful to You

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Many families have longstanding beliefs and expectations that are passed on from one generation to the next.  When they work well, these dyn...
Monday, April 18, 2016

Working in Therapy to Accept Your Emotional Needs

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Many people feel ashamed of their emotional needs because they grew up in families where they were made to feel ashamed for even having emot...
Monday, April 11, 2016

The Effects of Parental Transference in Therapy

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In my earlier articles, I've discussed different types of transference that clients develop in therapy, including  Psychotherapy and the...
Monday, April 4, 2016

You Can't Change Your Past, But You Can Change How the Past Affects You Now

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Part of being an adult is knowing and accepting that there will be loss and difficult times.  No one can escape experiencing emotional pain ...
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...