Every post, newest first, as picture cards. The Archive lists the same writing by date, and Topics organizes it by concern.
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Choice and quality of life | What choice, if removed, would most positively impact your well being?
The United States encompasses various sub-cultures influenced by a dominant meta-culture emphasizing freedom and choice. This dual nature of choice can lead…
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Solutions and Causes of Anxiety
The post outlines various causes of anxiety, categorized into health, biological, relational, cognitive, and environmental factors. It emphasizes anxiety’s role in survival…
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Concrete vs Abstract responsibility for teenagers
Many teenagers struggle with responsibility due to the shift from concrete to abstract tasks, leading to feelings of irrelevance. This disconnect affects…
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Intentionality and Happiness | How life choices are impacted by purpose
This post emphasizes the relationship between intentionality and happiness, urging self-reflection. It identifies three approaches: balance, where both elements support each other;…
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Double Binded Communication
Often we send ‘mixed messages’ to people. It can be a source of dis-ease in a relationship when a partner or loved…
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Addiction Anxiety, Depression & Stress Individual Growth Mind-Body Connection Physical Health and Wellness
Addiction, Self-determination, Flow, Mindfulness, Culture, Emotional Intelligence, and Human Bonding
Addiction, Self-determination, Flow, Mindfulness, Culture, Emotional Intelligence, and Human Bonding What are the components of addiction? why is addiction less desirable? and…
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The Relativity of Oppression
Oppression exists, and much like other abstractions, oppression is often cognitively enmeshed with content or with something more concrete. There is often…
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The Relationship between Anxiety and Attention
Attention is a learn-able skill There are many famous quotes and affirmations spoken through the years that point to the humbling truth…
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Do you Like your self when you are with this person?
I had a client share an age old piece of wisdom with me a couple months ago – he said that he…
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Bottom Up and Top Down interventions to support regulation
In this post we will be exploring what people mean by ‘bottom up” and “top down” interventions and how you can use…
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Fear, Competence, Values and Anger in Parenting Rambunctious Children
This post will investigate how our perceived parenting competence impacts our fear and resulting emotional and behavioral reactions. We will focus on…
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When Attachment Theory and Existentialism Compete
In this post I will be investigating the relationships between one’s core sense of purpose in life (existentialism) and contrasting that with…
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Parenting Paradigm | a level system to conceptualize parenting strategies
I was in a couples therapy session guiding an enactment surrounding an argument the couple had surrounding a parenting issue over the…
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Happy Relationship – loving another as yourself – loving we to love me
A relationship is a system… it is a whole with interconnecting parts – and the whole ends up being greater than the…
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Early Childhood Questions to Promote Bonding
I compiled the below questions to be used in an adult couple relationship to help facilitate bonding. When our partners see the…
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Beliefs, Truths, Opinions, & Thoughts Philosophy & Theory Physical Health and Wellness Uncategorized Weight Loss
Choice is Oppression
Wow that is a provocative way to start! of course Choice is also liberation and a billion of other things, but in…
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Accepting, condoning, and boundaries
How do you accept what you can’t condone? what is it that your are accepting? we love people and we want them…
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Playful Communicative Connection Enactment
As a teacher, therapist, and supervisor I have developed a number of enactment interventions which serve to help clients to better connect…
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Why Democracy Failed
This will be the beginning of a large selection of post concerning the evolution of our systems of government. Our country is…
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What is the purpose of Marriage?
In this post I will share some of the variables that can be experienced from a life long commitment or marriage. The…
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interregulation – a simpler explanation | regulating communication
For the sake of usability I am going to attempt at a simpler explanation of how communication can cause mutual regulation between…
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It is only fear
Fear used to be super useful on a day to day basis… it kept us from allowing our curiosity to pick up…
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Attunement Exercise
In building an empathetic ability it is very important that people first advance their ability to attune to another person. I will…
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Wind Blown Hair (Music Post)
Quick Summary: This is a song that I wrote in 2006ish (can’t honestly remember) that playfully uses sounds and images to paint…
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I'm not alone (Music)
Quick Summary: This is a song that I wrote in 2010 about accepting the peace of my current restful space. I was…
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Shed Your Old Skin (Music)
Quick summary: This is a song that I wrote in 2008 about the need to change… fundamentally. I was in a time…
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Come to Carry us Home (music)
Quick summary: This is a song I wrote in 2010 as I sat in a rocking chair nervously waiting for the first…
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Parenting Teens with Diabetes
Quick Summary: I will offer two super easy techniques that I use in family therapy to assist a family in structuring itself…
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Stopping unwanted thoughts and daydreams
Quick summary: you have quite a large degree of control over where you keep your attention but often there is an…
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Feedback loop in a Couples interaction
Quick summary: In a Couples interaction there tend to be dynamics that are reoccurring which spiral out of control and lead to…
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Boy of the Fall (music post)
Quick Summary: This is a song that I wrote originally in 2002ish – but reworked in 2008ish. Music is my means of…