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ARTArticleAnger Management: The 5 Relationship KillersAnger Management: The 5 Relationship Killers At times, every marriage or significant relationship has times in which anger management would be helpful. Its pretty hard to live with someone and not get angry with them at some point. Interestingly, research has shown that its not the number of fights that couples have which predict if their relationship will last. It's the attitude that people have towards their partner on an ongoing basis that tells how likely they are to stay together.ARTArticleAnger Management: Treat Depression to Treat Anger?Hows this for a head turner - the best anger management technique for some people may be to treat them for depression. Depression, goes the old saying, is anger turned inward. In my experience, its just the opposite - anger is depression turned outward.ARTArticleAnorexia, Treatment of a Complicated Illness.Each client tends to be more different than similar, and the development trajectory for each client is complex. Most anorexics will move into bulimia, while many bulimics who get under control will attempt to restrict; therefore, one common feature of the illness is that over-control eventually leads to out of control, and getting under control results in over-control. The Potential for Combination of Disorders ARTArticleAnxiety & Stress ManagementFOREWORD – ABOUT THE MIND BRAIN BALANCE TEAM “The Center for Mind Brain Balance” was established to bridge the gap between a person’s psychological and emotional needs versus their brain-based or physical imbalances that are so often overlooked.ARTArticleAre You Master or Victim of Your Attitude?We are either the masters or the victims of our attitudes. It is a matter of personal choice. Who we are today is the result of choices we made yesterday. Tomorrow, we will become what we choose today. To change means to choose to change. ~John Maxwell What kind of thoughts come to your mind when you think about your life? How about your family, your work, your future? Suppose your thoughts could change your destiny. Would you want to change or improve any of them?ARTArticleBeing a Witness to Our SufferingRepetition compulsion* is a pattern we get stuck in where we are trying to ease the pain that manifests because our needs as a child were not met. The pain occurs when we are younger and because our feelings weren’t acknowledged, the emotions (of fear, anger and grief) are not resolved and we get stuck in a loop of recreating the pattern in an attempt to resolve the feelings that get triggered in us.ARTArticleBringing the feminine forwardWhat does it mean to bring more of the feminine into our culture and why should we do that? Is there evidence that it helps? In a study in Leadership: Women Do It Better Than Men, Harvard Business Review (https://hbr.org/2012/03/a-study-in-leadership-women-do), Dr. Jack Zenger and Dr. Joe Folkman identified sixteen competencies that made an individual an outstanding leader. The results showed that women out-scored men in twelve of the sixteen competencies, including: Taking initiative, Inspiring and motivating others, Driving for results, Building relationships, Collaboration, and team work.ARTArticleClutter and Productivity - Some Objects Just Refuse to Leave!Did you read my article last week about getting and staying organized using a powerful, proven process? I hope so. And I hope you've started to put a new habit in place to tame the clutter that is tormenting you! You can read that article here if you missed it! Are you starting to see clarity in your surroundings yet? Even just one surface that was previously hidden from view beginning to come into its own and shine forth is great progress!ARTArticleCognitive Behavioral Techniques for Abstaining from AlcoholWhether you plan to abstain from alcohol for a day, a week, a month, or a lifetime, the use cognitive behavioral strategies has been proven to greatly increase your chances of success. Dr. Jeffrey Brandsma's (1980) classic study showed that people who learned cognitive behavioral strategies were significantly more successful in dealing with their alcohol problems than a control group. How do these cognitive behavioral strategies work?ARTArticleCongratulations! It’s a Blog: Attracting Readers to Your new BlogCongratulations! It's a Blog: Attracting Readers to Your new Blog ARTArticleConnecting Food & SexLast week, I had the great honor to talk on the tele-seminar “Abundance Reigns” where my topic was about our hungers and desires and how they relate to creating a more fulfilling life. This was a very fun talk and very interesting to prepare because the more I prepared the presentation, the more connections I kept coming up with between our physical hunger for food and our physical and emotional need for sex. I quickly realized that I could have done the entire presentation on that topic alone and could write a dozen articles on the many ways food and sex correlate.ARTArticleCouples Counseling: 7 Ways it Can Improve Your RelationshipOne of the questions I am most frequently asked is what couples counseling can do to restore a relationship. I can think of a thousand ways marriage counseling can be of use, but then I'm a bit biased and that would make for a mighty long article. So instead here are the top 7 ways couples counseling can benefit you: Here's what couples counseling can do for you:ARTArticleCourageous Resilience & Creative Risk-Taking (CR2): The ABCs of Designing DisorderNotice the vertical letter pattern to the right of the first “Preamble” stanza. It’s the rhyme scheme: A-B-CC-A-B-CCC. This is the basic scheme throughout the poem. Also, it’s one reason the poem is subtitled, “The ABCs of Designing Disorder.”rn~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Courageous Resilience & Creative Risk-Taking (CR2): The ABCs of Designing Disorder Preamble Trio: 1) Weariness… 2) Uncertainty… 3) Failure A Resilience and Risk B The new “R & R” C Where effort and pluckr C With guidance and luckr A Help you stretch and stickr B To that rising starr ARTArticleCourt Ordered Anger Management - Is it Always the Right Answer?Every year thousands of people are required to take a court ordered anger management class. This is oftentimes mandated as an alte ative to jail time for people who have been involved in some altercation, verbal or physical, that does not involve weapons or domestic violence. There are a number of options available for people to take one of these courses. Many counties offer them, therapists in private practice offer groups or will see people individually and lately there have been a number of courses that are offered online.ARTArticleCreating Healthy Relationships ARTArticleCritical Incident-Trauma-Grief Intervention & Debriefing: Train the Trainer/Caregiver Workshop -- AddendumIn a world where encounters with sources of aggression and violence, trauma and grief are all too common, understanding the dynamics of “critical incidents/hazardous events” – both for adults and/or children directly impacted and for those encountering second-hand effects – is vital. This “train the trainer/caregiver” workshop is for family members or close friends, colleagues, educators, religious or community leaders, emergency responders, or an array of helping professionals.ARTArticleDental Problems with Anorexia, Bulimia, and Binge Eating DisordersAlthough eating disorders are often accompanied by a variety of physical and emotional complications, perhaps the most painful are those leading to severe dental problems. To be sure, there is some overlap with respect to the specific impact each type of eating disorder has on our teeth and mouth. The list of dental complications for each eating disorder is listed below: • Loss of tissue and erosive lesions on the surface of teeth due to the corrosive effects of acid [Bulimia]r ARTArticleDetachment. How Can I?When life becomes one crisis after another, when emotional pain and endless drama become “the norm” what am I supposed to do? Over the past few decades I’ve received this question a lot. Recently it has become the #1 question. Why is that? What do I suggest to families who have arrived at this place? How about this: My suggestion is to do NOTHING! Stop “doing.” Quit “doing.” No longer “DO” anything. Let’s talk about letting go and what that looks like (sometimes referred to as detachment). So there—I’ve said it; The “D” word, The Ultimatum, The Nuclear Option. When to use it ARTArticleDIALECTICAL ABSTINENCE – HARM REDUCTION FOR EATING DISORDERSA colleague and good friend of mine, Molly Carmel, LCSW who directs an eating disorder clinic in NYC [The Beacon Program] introduced me to the concept of “dialectical abstinence.” Although I don't know of any source the concept appears, I will credit Molly with adding this to my understanding of living with acceptance of imperfection with recovery. Illustrating DA on a white board one afte oon, it become apparent teaching this concept of recovery can be a game changer. So…I’ll pass it along to those of you who may be reading this article. Here goes.ARTArticleDiets Don't WorkThis time of year, we are often inundated with diets, cleanses, fasts, and programs that state outrageous claims saying they will “Change your life in 30 days,” “Lose 50 lbs in two weeks,” “Have the perfect body in 2 months,” and etc, all of which are, first and foremost, ridiculous claims and second, leading us to a very skewed view of health and happiness. Diets and weight loss don’t make us happy and outside of extreme situations, weight loss does not change anyone’s life.ARTArticleDo you need to be spiritual to recover from substance abuse?<img title="Spirituality in the treatment of substance abuse" alt="Spiritual practices help in recovery from substance abuse" src="http://www.vizown.com/images/Spiritual-practices-help-in-recovery-from-substance-abuse.jpg" style="text-align: center;" />ARTArticleEATING DISORDERS - STILL A MYSTERYLet’s begin this article with an important “disclaimer” – namely no one has a definitive answer as to what causes an eating disorder and, more importantly, one definitive approach to treatment that offers a cure or is “superior” to another. Although I tend to subscribe to the belief a blend of genetic, emotional, and biological elements account for an eating disorder, I suggest we acknowledge the need to approach treatment with each of these factors in mind.ARTArticleEating Disorders, the disconnect between body and mind.When human psychological factors cause an illness, it is called psychosomatic – of the mind and of the body. Of all disorders an eating disorder is the epitome of a toxic relationship between psyche and soma, yet the body is our interface for navigating the world. Medical writer Jonathan Miller states: The body is the medium of experience and the instrument of action.ARTArticleEight Keys to Unlocking More Joy TodayMajor depressive disorder is the leading cause of disability in the US, affecting around 15 million adults a year, according to the Anxiety and Depression Association of America. Add the current controversial political and social climate to general everyday woes, and now, perhaps more than ever, we could all use a little cheering up! Here are eight easy, practical ways to create more joy in your daily life, starting today: KEY 1: Transform trials into stepping stonesr ARTArticleEnvy & Jealousy - How They Rob Us of Security and ContentmentAlthough similar in many ways, jealousy and envy are not the same. Deep insecurities often lie at the root of jealousy. When someone is jealous they are afraid of losing something. They try to guard and protect what they fear losing. In doing so, they may become very possessive, competitive, and resentful. For example, they might be jealous of someone they fear can steal their boyfriend’s heart away from them, someone who got the promotion they worked hard for, or the person who got the praise and adoration they felt they deserved. Jealousy can be fear of losing any of the following:ARTArticleExploring the Pros and Cons of a Gender Based EducationSegregating the genders in schools is nothing new. We've been doing this for centuries from the primary grades on. In the United States, this policy is largely limited to private schools, however, there are a few public and charter schools that do have separate classrooms for males and females. In other countries, separating the genders is standard procedure. <img border="0" height="320" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-T6LzjLzNb0E/UJ6wjaNUesI/AAAAAAAARGs/XFDLsfPVZOo/s640/IMG_1182.JPG" width="480">ARTArticleFamily Dynamics - Living With ADD/ADHDFOREWORD – ABOUT THE MIND BRAIN BALANCE TEAM “The Center for Mind Brain Balance” was established to bridge the gap between a person’s psychological and emotional needs versus their brain-based or physical imbalances that are so often overlooked.ARTArticleFinding and Losing Inner Child Love: Mou ing to Morning and Back AgainAlas, the recent break-up of a nine year relationship was painful enough. But when my ex-partner’s daughter indefinitely suspended (if not permanently ended) weekly 3-5 minute Skypeing and my periodic visiting with her 3 ½ year old daughter (i.e., my ex’s grandchild), because the mother felt “confused” by the split (initiated by her mother) along with being “tired of saying ‘Yes’ when she wanted to say ‘No’”…well, the loss, pain, and grief go very, very deep.ARTArticleFinding and Losing Inner Child Love: Mou ing to Morning and Back AgainAlas, the recent break-up of a nine year relationship was painful enough. But when my ex-partner’s daughter indefinitely suspended (if not permanently ended) weekly 3-5 minute Skypeing and my periodic visiting with her 3 ½ year old daughter (i.e., my ex’s grandchild), because the mother felt “confused” by the split (initiated by her mother) along with being “tired of saying ‘Yes’ when she wanted to say ‘No’”…well, the loss, pain, and grief go very, very deep.ARTArticleFinding and Losing Inner Child Love: Mou ing to Morning and Back AgainAlas, the recent break-up of a nine year relationship was painful enough. But when my ex-partner’s daughter indefinitely suspended (if not permanently ended) weekly 3-5 minute Skypeing and my periodic visiting with her 3 ½ year old daughter (i.e., my ex’s grandchild), because the mother felt “confused” by the split (initiated by her mother) along with being “tired of saying ‘Yes’ when she wanted to say ‘No’”…well, the loss, pain, and grief go very, very deep.

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