Thoughts of a Therapist
Teaching Kindness, Compassion & Empathy to Our Children: It’s Not Inborn
Life was so different when we grew up. Kids currently must contend with school shootings, terrorism, the intrusion of technology, among many other things. As parents we go into self-protective mode and in many ways so do our children. This self-protection can often...
How to Tame Your Anxious Mind
Our humanness dictates our varied perceptions, evaluations, judgments, and expectations. These develop over time based on our physiology, history, and experiences. For some people, they perseverate or hyper-focus and complain that “they can’t get their mind off of...
15 Ways to Take Effective Action Toward Your Weight Loss and Health
It is our sabotaging thoughts that get us stuck and block our willingness to engage in a lifelong process of healthy eating and ongoing physical fitness. Thoughts such as, “I will not be successful at it,” “It’s too hard,” “I don’t have the time,” etc. keeps us...
10 Confidence Boosting Strategies for Parents & Their Kids
I am faced with patients who are thoughtful, caring, intelligent, attractive, and with many other positive characteristics. The challenge is that they don’t see it in themselves. The picture they paint and express is so counter to who I see before me. I’m aware about...
Parents, Cyber-Sex, and Children
A father forgot to log out of the family PC and his 13-year-old daughter mistakenly found pornography under his username. A 17-year-old’s camera was broken on her phone, so she took a picture and texted it to her father to check out the picture quality. She shockingly...
Mastering Relationships: Teach People How to Treat You
In my personal life and in my practice, I run up against relationships that are thwarted because of a negative or difficult interaction that ensues. It necessitates teaching people how to treat us in order to facilitate our needs being met. I observe that we generally...
