Do you long for a home?
Date Posted: May 5, 2022
Categories: Abuse / Abuse Survivor Issues, Adult psychological development, ...
GO“Give While You Live” is the title of a post written by John Blase for Daily Bread.It’s a psychotherapeutic slogan for me. It promotes one’s overall mental health and well being.Giving can boost both mental and physical health. Research shows that those who give live longer ...
Feb 24
Categories: Abuse / Abuse Survivor Issues, Control Issues, Depression
GOFind purpose in the pain.I once heard the Pope praying that he dies quickly when it’s his time without the pain. “I’m not very good at pain,” he’d admit.In my psychotherapy work, people hate pain. The pain of their emotional wounds. Their trauma in life.“I feel a ...
May 2
Categories: Abuse / Abuse Survivor Issues, Addictions, Chronic Pain
GO(Photo credit: Chess24)Can you change the past?Can the Ethiopian change his skin or the leopard his spots? That’s what Jeremiah asked in Scripture (13:23)Some things cannot be changed.The most unchangeable is your past. You cannot undo it.
Nov 7
Categories: Abuse / Abuse Survivor Issues, Adjusting to Change / Life ...
GOWhere do all our problems come?That’s a question once asked of me by TV host, Mel Tiangco, in a live telecast over at GMA7.She also asked about the “mother wound” in relation to the case her program presented during the show.Psychologist and author Dr. David Stoop mentions a ...
Sep 14
Categories: Abuse / Abuse Survivor Issues, Adult psychological development, ...
GOThe truth is, toxic people are a part of life.They’re everywhere - our neighborhoods, offices, governments, hospitals, schools, and sadly, often right among our family members, relatives and friends.A number of qualities characterize them and their typical toxic pattern of attacking or ...
Dec 30
Categories: Abuse / Abuse Survivor Issues, Bullying, Emotional Abuse
GOThe Roman philosopher Cicero once wrote, “Man is liable to error, and it is a fool who continues in error.”
Dec 11
Categories: Abuse / Abuse Survivor Issues, Depression, Marital Counseling
GOMuch deterioration in therapy happens when failure is not processed effectively.
Sep 1
Categories: Abuse / Abuse Survivor Issues, Adult psychological development, ...
GOIn a certain sense, all of us are born "narcissists." We each carry remnants of our infancy or childhood narcissism. Nothing is as real to us as we feel like the center of the world.
Aug 7
Categories: Abuse / Abuse Survivor Issues, Emotional Abuse, Family Problems
GO”Straighten up or leave,” says Mary to her husband Don. He left. And things still worked out beautifully for her.
Jul 13
Categories: Abuse / Abuse Survivor Issues, Infidelity, Marital Counseling
GOIn Western medicine, healing is equated only with health. Superficially, it sounds common sense. Logical. Obvious.
Dec 11
Categories: Abuse / Abuse Survivor Issues, Adult psychological development, ...
GORita was one confused teenager. After she got sexually molested in school, she won't talk with her mother or sisters.She said, "My Mom can't handle it. What can my sisters do?" Even with her closest friends, she'd rather not talk about it.Over time, the "secret" took ...
Jul 27
Categories: Abuse / Abuse Survivor Issues, Relationships & Marriage, ...
GOWe live in a fast-paced age. The world is a smaller place because of technology, internet, and airplanes through our skies.This advancement has lots of pluses. The speed, the technology, helps. Speaking for myself, I can conduct sessions anywhere I am to attend to those from varied places or ...
Mar 26
Categories: Abuse / Abuse Survivor Issues, Adjusting to Change / Life ...
GODina seemed incapable of receiving compliments. In our “chit chat” during session, after I’d affirmed her accomplishments and good looks, she started avoiding eye contact by staring at the floor or holding her self tightly.
Feb 17
Categories: Abuse / Abuse Survivor Issues, Depression, Emotional Abuse
GOYou may ask, “How can I be responsible when I’m the one abused, hurt, or ‘sinned against’?”
Dec 3
Categories: Abuse / Abuse Survivor Issues, Adjusting to Change / Life ...
GOI’m reminded of Aldous Huxley, a noted writer-philosopher. He was dying. At his deathbed, he was asked what words and wisdom he would like to tell and leave to the world. He replied, “I wish people would be kinder to each other.”What does “kindness” mean? Here’s ...
Sep 27
Categories: Abuse / Abuse Survivor Issues, Addictions, Marital Counseling
GODr. Angelo Subida is a clinical psychotherapist, author, and speaker. He is author of books "Inner Healing," "Secrets Of Your Self," "Chess and Life," among others, blogs, and articles. He has appeared frequently as an expert on psychotherapy/life recovery issues on national television, radio broadcasts, print media, and webcasts, including GMA 7, TV 5, ABS CBN 2, Q-11, 700 Club, Radyo Veritas, Inquirer Radio, Smart Parenting Magazine, Business Mirror, among others, and has served as resident therapist/counselor for parents and kid-artists in the highly popular ABS-CBN 2 Voice Kids TV singing reality show. Dr. Subida is an eclectic, multidisciplinary therapist and originator of his own revolutionary high-tech, high-touch counseling plus model. His areas of specialization include parent-child therapy, clinical infidelity treatment, relationship/marital counseling, separation/divorce therapy, anger management, depression, addictions, psychotherapy-spirituality integration, and innovative chess therapy. For more of Dr. Subida, you can find him at www.drsubida.com.
Dr. Angelo Subida, Psychotherapist belongs to Dr. Angelo O. Subida Psychotherapy Clinic in Philippines