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Feelings Aren’t Necessarily Facts.
Because it’s been coming up recently, and because it’s a fundamental principle of what I do in terms of therapy: Feelings aren’t necessarily facts. They are just indicators of possible realities. Of...
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Utility of Sadness
We do some *ahem* interesting things with sadness. Often, people ask us how we are. I think the real question is about how we feel, but we will oft answer “good” or “bad” or “not so good”. All...
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You Can’t Heal What You Can’t Feel
We constantly “do” things- behaviors and thinking, that put distance between us and us, us and “others”, us and ‘god’ or the ‘universe’ as we MISunderstand s/he/them and/or it. Food, sex, TV,...
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Transformation.
So, we can’t heal what we can’t feel. If we’re really trying to transform “depression” (not a feeling, but a diagnosis), “anxiety” (another non-feeling), grief and loss, abuse, abandonment and neglect...
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Therapy is Not the Answer
This is sort of a PSA for clients and therapists alike. Therapy is not the answer to our problems of relationships, depression, grief/loss, addiction, taking food from others, communication, our sense...
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Recognition for Partners in Recovery
Last Monday (9-26-11), Judy McGehee MFT, Melissa Lamoureux MS, Erika Gayoso MA, Ted Aaselund PsyD, Michael Cardenas, Jeffrey Craig, Jessica Wilson, Elvia Cortes MA and myself were recognized by the...
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Attitude of Platitude
Talking with a client the other day, the subject of platitudes came up. Many of us use them routinely. Whether opining about inferences made, used polemically, or giving feedback to a friend or loved...
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“Show Your Work!”
When “solving problems” in addition to good “issue identification”, “diagnosis” (or whatever), it’s really important to examine methods/means to diminish or solve these problems, and have those methods...
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