Improve Your Relationship! 10 Tips on How to Listen Like a Therapist
Use some of the listening skills used by therapists to improve your relationship!
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Relationships 101: Listening
Listening is one of the most important skills in having, maintaining and growing your relationship. Given our cultural references of people shouting at and over each other in our entertainment and political spheres, it seems like a brush-up might be useful. What Listening is a Chance to: learn what is on the other person’s mind …
10 Surprising Consequences of Having a Narcissistic Parent
There are many consequences of being the child of a narcissistic parent which might be surprising. Some of these include anxiety, people pleasing, resentment and a sense of aloneness.
5 Important Sources of Relationship Disappointment
Is this you? You are in a relationship for over a year, and now you feel anger, disappointment, resentment, and stress? It all seemed to be going great. Your partner is fun and attractive. Why aren’t things going as they should? There can be several reasons, here are the top 5: Communication (or really, lack …
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Disappointment in Your Adventure
For many, moving to San Francisco starts as an adventure. However, the stress, expense and isolation can create a real sense of disappointment. These factors can cause problems at work and in relationships.
Emotional Kwashiorkor – Problems with Intimacy
Starving Kids in Magazines Kwashiorkor is a terrible condition of malnutrition. Images of children suffering from this disorder used to populate National Geographic and other similar magazines. The children with this disorder are skinny, but with bloated abdomens. The average person in the first world could not imagine how a child could look both like …
Guided Meditation Resources
Guided meditation can be very helpful in managing stress, anxiety, depression and blood pressure. It can be a very useful adjunct to psychotherapy. Multiple resources are given.
Rock, Paper, Scissors and the Intergenerational Transmission of Character
Well, you might be asking yourself what does the game Rock, Paper, Scissors have to do with the intergenerational transmission of character? What follows is a brief vignette and then insights gathered from my reflections afterward. A number of years ago, I was the training supervisor in charge of a school-based therapy program. During a …
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Adultery Websites and Fantasy
Adultery-facilitating websites have been shown to be populated by robots, and much of the ‘action’ was in the subscribers’ fantasy. We explore some of the reasons people commit adultery.
Relationships and Concentric Rings
Using the image of concentric rings as a metaphor to understand the variety of relationships in which we participate. Different ‘rings’ have different requirements and different expectations. This idea can help us navigate expectations and feelings in relationships.