Zack grew up in a wealthy family. His mother was a lawyer, and his father was a surgeon. His parents were quite busy, so he often came home and worked on his homework by himself. His parents were kind and were able to buy him things, but he felt emotionally lonely ...
Date Posted: October 13, 2021
Categories: Self-Care / Self Compassion, Self-Confidence, Self-Criticism, ...
Written By:
Dr Monica Borschel
Dylan had just found out that his wife, Anna, had been cheating ...
Oct 13
Categories: Divorce / Divorce Adjustment, Ending a relationship issues, Grief, ...
Written By:
Dr Monica Borschel
How are you doing?How do you feel about this situation?How do you feel about him/her?What makes you choose this and not that?How often do we hear these questions? And how easy for you to respond to these questions?At times, we feel stuck, block, unclear or unsure about how we feel about something ...
Oct 11
Categories: Life Purpose / Meaning / Inner-Guidance
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We live hectic lives!I imagine that most of you would agree with the above statement. Few are the people in today’s world, who found a way to balance the perennial demands calling for attention.The sheer volume of tasks and responsibilities we must attend to is enormous. In my experience it ...
Sep 30
Categories: Health Psychology, Life Purpose / Meaning / Inner-Guidance, ...
Written By:
Dr Oberdan Marianetti
Sep 28
Categories: Couple Counseling, Marital Counseling, Relationships & Marriage, ...
Written By:
Dr Monica Borschel
Dylan had just found out that his wife, Anna, had been cheating ...
Sep 28
Categories: Anger Management, Divorce / Divorce Adjustment, Grief, Loss, ...
Written By:
Dr Monica Borschel
I’ve been thinking today of coping with isolation. It appears uniform of the day given the current pandemic.
With the worsening Covid crisis, there has been renewed quarantines and lockdowns. How do we face this?
Understanding how isolation affects our health can be a relevant first ...
Sep 5
Categories: Aging & Geriatric Issues, Coping with Medical Problems, Emptiness
Written By:
Dr. Angelo Subida, Psychotherapist
I realised that most of us constantly judge and blame ourselves for some things that actually warrant no judgment or blame.I often go through the following short script when I notice that a client is beating themselves up unnecessarily.Me: Hold on a second! Do you know I am Italian?Client: ...
Sep 1
Categories: Forgiveness, Life Purpose / Meaning / Inner-Guidance, Mindfulness, ...
Written By:
Dr Oberdan Marianetti
It’s not uncommon to feel like life is a never-ending set of twists and turns, often unexpected, always somewhat challenging.
Over the years I used the analogy of videogames to address this concept and many of its derivatives.
I don’t know if life is like videogames or videogames are ...
Jul 30
Categories: Life Purpose / Meaning / Inner-Guidance
Written By:
Dr Oberdan Marianetti
How to improve parent child communication and relationship during families transition through Separation or Divorce…Every Friday evening, Matt would go to his ex-wife’s house to pick up his daughter, Wendy, for their weekend access ...
Jul 29
Categories: Adjusting to Change / Life Transitions, Divorce / Divorce Adjustment, ...
Written By:
Dr Monica Borschel
Being selfish hurts you. It is dangerous.
Jul 22
Categories: Anger Management, Borderline Personality Disorder, Self-Care / Self ...
Written By:
Dr. Angelo Subida, Psychotherapist
What can business teach us about relationships? I would say quite a lot.
Today I want to follow up on my video from two weeks ago, where I introduced the idea that we can learn a lot from the relationships of every day life, like business relationships, to further enhance our intimate ...
Jul 1
Categories: Mindfulness, Relationships & Marriage
Written By:
Dr Oberdan Marianetti
You may recall the video we sent a couple of weeks ago. If you have not seen it, I would thoroughly recommend you watch it.
It is my experience ...
Jul 1
Categories: Adjusting to Change / Life Transitions, Life Purpose / Meaning / ...
Written By:
Dr Oberdan Marianetti
Today I want to share the third analogy I frequently use in my sessions with clients.
“What disturbs men’s minds is not events but their judgements on events.” Epictetus
Today I want to share a few examples to illustrate how in most situations the stressors we perceive as ...
Jul 1
Categories: Mindfulness
Written By:
Dr Oberdan Marianetti
You may recall the video we sent a couple of weeks ago. If you have not seen it, I would thoroughly recommend you watch it.
The clown is the next analogy I frequently use during my therapy sessions, ...
Jul 1
Categories: Adjusting to Change / Life Transitions, Empathy
Written By:
Dr Oberdan Marianetti
Do you wake up in the morning with overwhelming anxiety? Even before your day starts, are you filled with dread? Do you often get caught up and try to figure out what is causing your anxiety? Do you spend hours looking through your life trying to figure out why you feel anxious and you are filled ...
May 24
Categories: Anxiety, Men's Issues, Relationships & Marriage, Sexual Problems ...
Written By:
Tammy M. Fontana, MS NCC CTRT Sex Therapist USA