what about change
I just experienced having some dearly held conceptions and convictions challenged by the following books: The Shrinking of America: Myths of Psychological Change, by Bernie Zilberg
it’s that time
It’s that time in my generation when everyone I know is losing their parents. And more. Some are loosing siblings too. A friend of mine in the field said that feeling numb
The New English
Sometimes the hardest part of counseling is being present with my own grief, as I mourn the loss of the English language as I know it. Change is hard, right? Long before they died,
confrontation
Confrontation doesn’t have to be so heavy a term. I think of it as pointing out something, calling attention to something.
Kindness
Life is hard enough. How can anyone be anything other than kind?
worth living
What makes your blood rush? What makes life worth living? That’s what I listen for when people share. When do they become animated, lighter, happier, smiling. And I
communication is hard (sometimes)
Sometimes it seems that communication is so tedious. For some couples, when they are different, or easily triggered, it takes effort to find and use words that don’t lead to
how to listen
Jordan Peterson. How To Really Listen To People. The gist: Look, what I want out of this conversationis that the place we both end upis better than the place we left
where else
What is Therapeutic ? What is Therapy ? Instead of thinking of it as an indicating that something is wrong or needs fixing or as something you “need” to do, I invite pe