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ARTArticleHelp My Teen: Could Your Child's Problems Be Due to Addiction?Parents often find themselves in a quandary trying to figure out how to help the adolescent whose behavior, disposition, and mood has changed for the worst. The exact nature of the problem may be eluding them. They use a trial and error problem solving method where they end up trying anything and everything to solve the problem. They try assertive discipline, enrolling their child in extracurricular activities to improve self-confidence or self-esteem, tutors, antidepressants, etc. without really knowing what they are dealing with.
They are often operating under faulty suppositions.ARTArticleIntroducing the 12-Steps, God, as we understand Him…so what?While introducing the 12-Step process to drug addiction patients, I often see bristling when we come to the mention of God. They get that certain look on their faces; the one that says the door is shut tight and “I don’t want to hear any of that God business.” Their statement is usually followed by something having to do with a religious upbringing, dislike of the church and a repeat of the first remark.ARTArticleKarmic Connections and Extraordinary Out of Ordinary RelationshipHave you ever met someone you recognize even though it is your first time meeting? There’s a cosmic chemistry, a sixth sense magnetism that seems to pull you towards one another. Is this person a soul mate or a karmic connection? Time usually tells. Are you still with this person? Does he or she still feel like your best friend and love
mixed into one? Then simplistic as it sounds, I suspect you’ve found your soul mate.ARTArticleKeep Your Parents and Children Out of Your MarriageKeep your parents and your children out of your marriage. Once they are in there, it's hard to get them out. When you are in conflict with your spouse, it is really tempting to use whoever is handy to vent to, regarding your marriage. And often the people available most available to us are our children and parents. They are typically most often in our presence, and if we don't see them throughout the day, they are often the people we speak to on the phone most often.ARTArticleLiving Our Creative VisionWhen you free-associate with the concept of creativity, what arises? Perhaps what you connect to involves turning ideas into reality and plumbing the depths of imagination. Perhaps you think of particular artistic mediums, or of ways of being that entail risk taking, and exploration. For some, creativity is a soulful expression of self in whatever way fully reflects that person’s essence. Humanistic psychologist Abraham Maslow asked, “The key question isn’t ‘what fosters creativity?’ but it is why in God’s name isn’t everyone creative?ARTArticleMarital Counseling: How to Make The Most of the Opportunities of Marriage CounselingPeople seek marriage counseling because they need help or are in pain. In any given couple, there is usually one who is more interested in counseling than the other. With a list of complaints, each partner usually feels compelled to make his/her case to the counselor about their spouse being "the problem". Although initially both partners seem to have the agenda of having the counselor straighten out the other, the benefits of marital counseling can quickly guide the cooperative efforts of the partners for the benefit of the relationship.ARTArticleMeaning & SufferingMy experiences as a psychotherapist and spiritual counselor have made it evident to me that we all seek to disce
a deeper meaning in our human existence by connecting with a higher spiritual sense of life, on personal and collective levels. There are universal questions and conce
s that invariably emerge for all of us. Who am I? What is my purpose? What fuels my quest for meaning in life? What makes life meaningful? What meaning does God and faith embody for me?ARTArticleMoving forward with grief!I am a mother – daughter – wife – sister – granddaughter. I love my family deeply, so when I lose a member of my family or a close friend, how do I move forward in my grief?
I can share my thoughts with you on this subject as a woman who has lost 2 children in two very different ways, my mother, grandparents, and close friends. Some may have lost more people in their lives and some less. It is not how many people in your lives you have lost, but in how you react to their loss.ARTArticleOur Marriage Is In Trouble But My Spouse Won't Go to Marriage Counseling: 7 Reasons Why Your Spouse May Resist CounselingThe idea of marriage counseling is usually brought up and pursued by one partner, initially. The possibility of marriage counseling is often an ongoing debate or discussion for sometime before couples actually find their way to the counselor's office.ARTArticlePsychology In TroubleThe Human Conditionr
Volume 1, Part 01
Have you ever wondered what is the platform for our one and only human experience? I have, for I once destroyed 99.9 percent of my human experience. With one tenth of my experience left, I took the time to learn how to learn from my insecurities. I learn to embrace that which one time intimidated me. I learned how to embrace my insecurities not as my weaknesses rather my strengths. I learned that whatever thought I validated influenced how I felt, and how I felt dictated my actions.
Personal and social selfrARTArticlePut on Your Oxygen Mask First: Self-Care For The CaregiverHave you been on a plane and heard the flight attendant tell you to put on your oxygen mask first? The immediate response is, "No way, I need to take care of my kids (husband, mother, best friend, stranger in the seat next to me...). The idea clashes with our instinct.
What does it really mean? Simply put: If you don't put your mask on first, you won't be there for all those other people when they need you. You will be unconscious.
The same applies to caregivers.ARTArticlePutting An End To AbuseRecently, my daughter made a trip to the town where she was born. Unfortunately, it was not a happy occasion. The daughter of one of her childhood friends had committed suicide.
The girl was 15 years old when she decided that she could not tolerate any more bullying. The only way she could stop the pain and humiliation was to take her own life.
The day of her funeral, the daughter of another friend was found unconscious on the bathroom floor in her home. She had overdosed on some prescription drugs she had found in the medicine cabinet.ARTArticleQuit Trying To Be PerfectIn our drive for the good life, it seems that we have become obsessed with the need to be “perfect”!
Why can’t we just let our selves be who we are at the moment?
As human beings we are constantly changing and evolving as our life changes. We cannot stop this process no matter how hard we try. We do not need to be obsessive about it!
We raise our children to always want to be the best of the best. If they do not reach for the top and become superstars, we treat them like they are losers.ARTArticleRecovery HappensI recently saw a banner — set in place for Recovery Month — that read: “Recovery Happens.” My question is: “What is implied here?” Words have meaning, and when those words are demonstrative of a process to behavioral change, people either simply disregard, are motivated by, or are intimidated by what they perceive and think about the process. For this, I call for a Matter of Perspective.
Matter of Perspective: My PerspectiverARTArticleSexual Addiction Behavior Types (Patrick Carnes)According to Patrick Carnes, there are 11 sexual addiction behavior types. This information is important when when working with sexually addictive or codependents or co-addicts of sex addicts. As you will see, sex addiction comes in many forms and types. Anything from the lone web surfer who spends 5 hours a night looking at pornography, to the patron of a prostitute, to the exhibitionist (man in the raincoat), the voyeur, and others.
Sexual Addiction Behavioral Types
1. Fantasy Sex - Sexually charged fantasies, relationships, and situationsARTArticleSpecify GoalsMethod No 2: Specify Goals
Make a list of your goals; the things that you would like to accomplish, create, manifest, improve or obtain. Include all aspects of your life – physical, material, emotional, mental, spiritual, social, familial, relationships, professional etc. Consider what you want to manifest for yourself, for your family, for others, for society and for humanity.
Create your own unique listARTArticleStaying Sober After In-Patient Treatment: Ten Reasons To Follow Through With Continuing Care Even If You Don't Want ToThe majority of patients who successfully complete inpatient and have the desire to stay clean and sober relapse in the first year after acute care treatment. Anyone who has been to inpatient treatment has noticed that the among the other patients around them, that there is a large percentage who have been through inpatient treatment before. This is largely because addiction is still being treated as an acute illness rather than the chronic disease that it is.ARTArticleTaking the time to be quietWhy does it seem that most of us fear letting ourselves become quiet?
In truth, I must be included in this unfortunate generalization. Virtually every person I have spoken to has readily stated that being quiet is either a daunting challenge or something they have no concept of.
How many times, as a child, were we chided for “doing nothing”? Sitting around dreaming seemed to be something that really irked our parents. Even the Bible says something about “idle hands are the devils workshop”.rARTArticleTension TamersIt comes as no surprise, but stress isn’t good for you. Well of course, you knew that already but the question for most people is how to tame it. Here’s a secret I discovered: In actuality there is no such thing as a ‘stress thing’ outside of us. It is our interpretation of the events in our life that causes us to feel stressed or not.ARTArticleThe Alchemical Journey towards the SelfIf you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you,
---JesusARTArticleThe Power of ChoicesThe Power of ChoicesARTArticleTherapy?How do I know if I need to go to therapy? A common question, often answered with “I must be crazy if I have to go to therapy!” So, the first thing I want to say in response is that you do not need to be crazy to be in therapy. In fact, I do not see crazy people in my practice. Crazy people see things that aren’t there and hear people who aren’t there. There is usually a chemical imbalance that needs to be corrected with medication.ARTArticleTransforming unfavourable thoughtsDon’t some thoughts really bug you? They show up when you least need them and often won’t go away without some sort of force.
So let’s look at these thoughts wandering around in our heads. Where do they come from?ARTArticleWhat To Do Right Now To Keep Your Spouse From Leaving You and To Build A Better Life Together.What if you were called into your boss's office and told that s/he was thinking about letting you go, that you were not fulfilling your job responsibilities, and that you were holding the company back rather than helping the company grow and prosper? Yes, you might be shocked or stunned. You might also already realize that you have not been working any where near your potential, that you have been somewhat disengaged from the company and just "putting in time" until retirement.ARTArticleWhat’s Your FEQ (Financial Emotional Intelligence)?Money is the hot topic these days. Whether you have it and are afraid of losing it or you don't know where your next paycheck is coming from, right now we all seem to share some form of 'money fear.' What if your beliefs about money were fueling how money flows in, or out of your life? Take this simple test to find out your FEQrn(Financial Emotional Intelligence)
“Money Money Money Money, MONEY — Some people got to have it …..- Some people really need it…Almighty Dollar!ARTArticleWhy People Have Marital AffairsWhy, when most people believe in monogamous marriages, and that affairs are "wrong", are so many couples struggling to recover from infidelity? Most people do not intend to have an affair and most couples never would have believed that it would happen to them. Affairs happen in the marriages of all kinds of people. Not bad people. Not people whose marriages are "doomed". The reality is that any marriage could be vulnerable to an affair, given the right conditions.
One of the first questions that the partner asks when they learn of the affair is "why?".ARTArticleWomen's Intuition Infertility and MotherhoodAs Mother’s Day approaches I thought it timely to share out of the ordinary extraordinary stories about becoming mothers. Both my experiences are unconventional and with each child woman’s intuition played a vital role guiding my jou
eys to motherhood.
Sometimes planned sometimes not, many women say they know the moment their children were conceived. It wasn’t that simple for me.ARTArticleWrite a Description of Your Ideal RealityMethod No 4: Write a Description of Your Ideal Reality
Using your imagination, now write a detailed description of your new reality in which your ideal life and ideal self are already manifested. Write in the present tense as if all of your goals have already been achieved. Describe how you feel, think, behave and live, now that all is as you want it to be. Read this description daily or even rewrite as many times as you like for 90 days.ARTArticle5 Ways To Help Tightness In Chest With AnxietyPanic is probably the most terrifying symptom of an anxiety attack. The tightness in chest with anxiety sometimes feels like a heart attack. But fixing just the tightness won't remove the anxiety.
You could take an aspirin or painkiller. You could meditate or take deep breaths. You could exercise. These may lessen the pain. But it will probably return, if the anxiety is not eliminated.ARTArticle7 Tips For Stress Management At WorkWhat would work be without stress? Pretty unsuccessful! Stress at work lets you know that you are challenging your own limits, when you are pushing beyond your own limits, like when you push yourself to finish a project before the deadline. Stress also wears down your physical and emotional systems. So stress management strategies are sought after by everyone.