If you grew up in a home that was cold, critical and or abusive, you grew up in fear without real attachment to your parents. Growing up without support is tough, but the slant of this article is about holding hope for all those who grew up without proper love and parental guidance. Yes, I
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What is it, that makes people pick up the phone and call or email a counselor? Why now rather than earlier or later? My guess is that something got triggered in the client, a worry, fear, sadness and for some reason the timing felt right to work on what is going on internally. Sometimes people
If you come from a family where there was alcohol or drug abuse, mental illness, poverty there is a higher incidence of fear, neglect and or abuse. If this happened in your family, I want to share with you that you may be doing the best you can. If you have been labelled someone who
Sometimes we yearn for people and things that are out of our reach. We want a relationship with an unavailable person. We want something expensive that is way beyond our budget. We think if only and what if constantly, so we are unhappy in our present life. We think if we have this magical relationship
As I walk around the city I live and work in, I have become more and more concerned and worried about cell phone and internet addiction. It bothers me as a counselor and a human being that I am watching people walking with phones in their hands, interacting with an object. They are not paying
There are four levels to us human beings, actually probably more that I am not even aware of. But I am going to address the levels that I know and think about. What I know to be true is that when we are out of balance, all of our different levels seem to do more
If you have a client that you feel stuck with, have feelings of irritation, feel manipulated by, could mean that you are working with someone with a personality disorder. These clients generally have issues with important relationships and can sometimes have problems keeping a job. These clients usually have trauma backgrounds. They could have been
Some people really dread the beginning of the holiday season. It feels stressful, and sometimes brings up old feelings from those childhood years of scenes from hell or scenes of indifference. People can feel like they have to recreate a beautiful holiday memory every year and work too hard to create it so that they
Time is one of the healers of our hearts’ wounds As we move through stormy days and months the repairs begin Through our pain nature moves in stitching our hearts back togetther We start to see color around us Is it really ok for us to work and play? Sometimes
In the early hours of the morning or at other times of the day, do you wonder, what if? Do you think gee, if I only took that job, went to another school, got a higher education, tried harder in high school, didn’t get engaged so young then, my life would be so much better.
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