Our unconscious mind is responsible for organizing much more of our daily life and our perceptions than we normally understand. This post examines some of these elements and their impact on our daily lives.
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An entire school of family therapy has arisen out of the work of Monica McGoldrick and Betty Carter, who introduced the concept of the family life cycle. The basic premise is that in every culture and sub-culture there are normative stages of development through which a family and its members travel. Each new phase has
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FOMO – the Fear of Missing Out appears to be related to concerns of becoming irrelevant, being left behind, becoming ‘less than’. We explore this concern.
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Perhaps surprisingly, the first few years after college can bring new sources of stress and new challenges. This surprise adds to the difficult nature of these years.
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Pixar’s new film “Inside Out” seems to be creating quite the stir in the therapy community. Most clinicians in our field tend to agree that the movie provides very accurate and useful information about emotions in a way that is accessible and entertaining. It tells the story of a young girl, Riley, and the characters
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Attachment style plays an important role in how we navigate socially and form and maintain relationships.
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A friend and colleague told me today that she uploaded a new operating system to her phone and lost all of her data and files. There was no warning about the risk of losing everything she had accumulated for the past year or so. Of course, the help line asked her why she made
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Most people occasionally experience insomnia. Today life is faster than it was a generation ago and we have much less barrier between our personal life and our work life, the result can be that we carry much more of our work life with us throughout the day. Here are some tips on reducing insomnia and
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A student’s project reveals a great deal about the complications if the grief process. For example, sometimes a tattoo can become an interference in the grieving process.
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A colleague who runs a clinic recently attended a management seminar. She described one point about passive-aggressiveness in the work place, and the workshop leader’s instructions were to ask the employee five different ways why that person was behaving in a passive-aggressive manner. Sounds on the surface like a reasonable plan. But it’s not. Here’s
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