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ARTArticleCan boot camps do any good to my children?If your child has behavioral problems and you have a tough time dealing with his behavior, you can think of the boot camps for children. The parents can enroll their child in boot camps where the children learn discipline and better behavior. The trained staff and instructors at the boot camp help the child through behavioral therapy.ARTArticleCan Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Help Heal Sex Addiction?The philosophical basis for cognitive therapy goes back to the Stoic Philosophers who taught that it is not the exte
al event that causes our distress, but rather our perception or interpretation of the event that is distressing. According to the Stoics, people are capable of considering alte
ative perceptions or interpretations by changing the thoughts that underlie emotional distress or sexual dysfunction. This ancient philosophy can help you in your therapy for sex addiction.ARTArticleCan Hypnotherapy Help in Treating Sex Addiction?The usual response to the suggestion to one of my clients that hypnotherapy might be useful in the treatment of sexual addiction is typical of the general public’s misguided understanding of hypnotherapy:
“I’m afraid of going into trance – I might lose control”; “You’ll find out things about me that I don’t even know myself”, or, typically, “I’m just not the type to benefit from hypnosis”.ARTArticleCan Neuro-Linguistics Programming Help with Sex Addiction Recovery?NLP is an approach to doing psychotherapy that was all the ragerARTArticleCan parents' fight affect their child?The child sees the parents fighting till their faces turn red. The parents shout at each other. If arguments and fights are a part of your daily life, the child sees all this and is likely to become aggressive and ill-mannered.ARTArticleCan You Help a Friend of Yours who Always “Falls” for the Wrong Man?It is very likely that you have a friend who always “falls” for the wrong guy. Everybody sees it, except her. You feel sorry for her; you wish you can help her. You even try to show her the “facts”, explain to her how she hurts herself; “predict” the miserable future she’ll have. After all, she has been falling for the wrong man time and again…
But all in vain: she is sure that “this time it won’t happen!”; that “you don’t know what you’re talking about”; that “you don’t know him at all”; that “I feel hurt that you don’t trust my judgement”, and so on and so forth.ARTArticleCan You Honestly Get Naked with Yourself Right Now?What do I mean by getting Honestly Naked? I am referring to you becoming conscious and aware of yourself, your challenges and your life… HONESTLY! THEN, dealing with these in an open, authentic fashion….not hiding, or avoiding (being in denial), but instead exploring, sharing and speaking in a way you help yourself and you can help others as well.
When you become intimately aware of your inner self, you discover why you are having the life you are experiencing right now.ARTArticleCan You Walk the Six Steps for Your Marriage Counseling Journey?The Six Steps of ‘Save Your Relationship’ Marriage Counseling Guide
Six steps of my Marriage Counseling processes are reviewed; the various qualities of being a marriage counselor, a psychologist, a life coach and a relationship advice provider are outlined.
Step # 1: I ask to speak loud and clear; to lay the problems on the table. I want to fully understand as quickly as possible. Describing a recent fight in detail often helps partners begin to identify core problems.ARTArticleCan Your Dreams about a Wonderful Intimate Relationship Materialize?It is wonderful to dream and fantasize about a wonderful relationship with a wonderful person. Who wouldn’t want to be involved with a great intimacy? But often, when you meet someone, even if at the beginning of the relationship you believe you have indeed seen your dream come true, slowly but surely you begin to realize this is not the case. Reality is different. At the beginning you might try to ignore this fact, to claim that what you notice is only temporary and to hope that, eventually, all will go smoothly as per your dream.ARTArticleCaution!
37 Things Your Sex Addict Tells Your Real SelfThe True Self is capable of objectively observing the Sex Addict Self because it's not obsessively preoccupied with getting it's neurotic needs met. Psychoanalysts call this the “observing ego” and it is considered a sign of maturity. Proponents of Eastern spirituality call the True Self “The Witness” because it's essence is conscious awareness of the inner workings of the mind.ARTArticleChildren With School Refusal BehaviourSchool refusal stems from emotional distress and anxiety which could be related to a range of issues either at home, school or both. A recent study reveals that 1 in 5 British children experience phobia or school refusal which has shown to be more prevalent in children's age groups aged 5 - 6 and 10 - 11 years.
The research also revealed that many parents were not aware of the conditions and those who were aware of it, experienced a major lack of information.ARTArticleChristian Singles Why Do You Go to Online Dating Sites?There have been many dating sites popping up over the years that cater to the desires that Christian singles have when finding people of interest. This is a specific part of online dating that caters to the religious audience. People of faith will certainly be able to take advantage of different sites like these because they involve many key points that make them different from what people might use elsewhere.ARTArticleConsider Separation as a Part of Your Marriage Counseling ProcessCan a marital separation save a marriage? Usually my opinion is: it depends…
Whether the separation will help or hurt the marriage is unknown, unless you know the couple, have listened to them and assessed their mental state. Needless to say, a professional marriage counselor should feed-back his or her gained impression to the couple. Since the outcome could go either way, depending on what each of them really wants, this tactic should be an important topic during the marriage counseling sessions.ARTArticleControl Your Destiny: See "The Addict" as "Not You"The True Self is Reality. It sees the activities of the Addict as being what it is: a fantasy growling for what it compulsively seeks: immediate gratification in the form of physical pleasure. Sex addiction is fueled by a fantasy of being how you never thought you were in your youth together of a fantasy of the power over women you've always wanted to have. Do you see how the Addict Self always lives in the past?ARTArticleDating After Divorce – What to DoIt is daunting to consider dating after experiencing divorce, especially after spending ten or more years with someone. By implementing the tips in this article, I am certain you will become more comfortable and even enjoy dating because dating is a process and can be structured to fit your needs.
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Being ready to date is less about a time line and more about how you feel and how ready you are to have companionship in your life.ARTArticleDeciding to Stop Failing in Your Relationships is a Wise Decision: Make the Necessary Changes and Win!Introduction
The decision to keep failing in your relationships and suffer the painful consequences, or get up the courage to acknowledge what makes you fail and become able to eventually have the relationship you so much desire is yours, and yours alone!
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If you wholeheartedly wish to have an intimate relationship and don’t yet have one, it is important that you understand the true reasons for not succeeding. Implementing five simple steps might help you figure out how to proceed to having the relationship you hope for.
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So, you want to have a relationship but so far you haven’t been successful. Why not? There are those who are not sure why, they just not successful at having one, that’s it, they say. Maybe they haven’t found the right match for them yet, maybe they didn’t have luck so far, who knows.ARTArticleDo You Perceive Yourself to be a “Special” Person, therefore Not Succeeding at Having an Intimate Relationship?If you are unsuccessful in developing an intimate relationship you might – like many others - perceive yourself as being “particular” – hereby justifying to yourself the fact that you are unsuccessful. But the fact of the matter is, “particular” are those who are willing to develop Self-Awareness, figure out how they have harmed their attempts at relationships until now and take the necessary steps to change.
What does “particular” mean?ARTArticleDo You Tend to Give-up on Your Will for the Sake of the Relationship? Be Careful! It might Harm Your IntimacyWhen you sacrifice your own will “for the sake of the relationship” your relationship seems harmonious, everything is by mutual consent. However, because you don't allow place to your own will, but rather live according to your partner's, you begin to feel uncomfortable, frustrated and angry.
When you develop Self-Awareness, understand what has driven you to give up on your will and realize the price you pay for it, you can get up the courage to make changes in your life and become able to develop and maintain a healthy relationship.ARTArticleDoes Your Low Self-esteem Stand in Your Way from Developing a Healthy Intimate Relationship?A low self-esteem might push you to impress your dates and “potential others” by being “too nice”, “too accommodating”, “too easygoing” and so on, whether when you post your profile on social media or when you meet new people face-to-face. Even though you might be going on endless dates, as long as you don’t work on your self-esteem you will fail time and again.ARTArticleDoes Your Success with Dating Make You Spin Your Head? Know When to Stop & Develop a Serious RelationshipIntroduction
“Enjoying life” and “winning” date after date might give you a good feeling – a boost to your ego, to your sexual drive, to your availability. But don’t let it distract you from your initial goal of finding a partner with whom to develop a truly intimate relationship. Knowing and keeping the balance; knowing when to get out of the dating scene and settling down is important.
**ARTArticleDon’t Seek Short-Cuts to Finding a Partner with Whom to Develop an Intimate Relationship: They Might Fail You!Time is money. For one reason or another this phrase has taken precedence in many aspects of our daily life: on CNN, for example, you often hear the anchor saying to an interviewer: “quickly…”; or “please answer the final last question in one sentence”. Twitter forces you to send messages with no more than 140 characters. Various internet sites accept articles which include no more than a limited amount of words. And in the dating scene you have probably become familiar with “speed dating”, which allows you to meet someone for 3 minutes and move on to the next person.ARTArticleDon’t Try to Change Your Partner. Change YOURSELF Instead! This Can Help Your RelationshipMen and women alike often try to change their partners. They believe that “only when” their partners will think, feel, react and behave the way they themselves do – the relationship will be satisfying.
But how often does it happen that just because they try to change their partners their relationship is getting worst and worst? Just because they think they know better how their partners “should be, think, feel and behave” they find themselves in endless conflicts and quarrels?
Why would anyone want to change his/her partner?ARTArticleEffective Consequences 101Do you want to know the real secret to motivating your child? The answer is simple: Effective Consequences.
This guide, Effective Consequences 101, is designed to provide the perfect foundation for effective consequences so that you can start using them today in your home.
What are Effective Consequences?ARTArticleEffects of Divorce on ChildrenEffects of Divorce on Children
For a married couple with children, the impact of the divorce on children should be one of the biggest conce
s when the question of a divorce is raised. Research shows that a child's reaction to divorce is greatly shaped by a number of factors, including age, gender, family support, and the quality of the relationship between the parents prior to the divorce.ARTArticleEmbracing Change with LoveWe are such amazing beings of infinite capacity and potential. Our boundless imagination, coupled with our wondrous will, allows us to bring our ideas into outer reality. Through our thoughts and feelings, we can literally create and experience that which we dream of in our heart of hearts. With patience and trust we manifest whatever we truly seek to experience on this grand adventure.
Whether we realize it or not, we create this way every moment. Yet, so often we become mired in habit and routine and stop being present with our imagination and the wisdom of our heart.ARTArticleEmotional Arguments and ExplosionsI’ve been working with a lot of couples over the years. One of the most common conce
s they bring up are arguments that get too aggressive. Spouses end up getting emotionally hurt, upset and angry. While conflicts are a given in relationships, you can dramatically improve how you argue and significantly decrease the emotional damage you are doing to the relationship.
When a conflict is beginning, we tend to think that we know what we are talking about and the other person is wrong.ARTArticleEverything I Do Annoys My Boyfriend - Why This Happens in Many Relationships"Everything I do annoys my boyfriend." That statement normally wouldn't make you bat an eyelash, save for the fact that it's you saying it, right? It's horrible, isn't it? You're crazy about a man who seems intent on criticizing everything about you. You feel like you're walking on egg shells at every turn and it certainly never feels as though you're doing anything even remotely right.