Many people who are codependent do not value and love themselves, their Self, because they have learned in their family of origin that they were of little value or even worse that they were bad. Fortunately there are ways you can learn to reverse this kind of early negative conditioning.
One way to increase your ...
Date Posted: May 21, 2013
Categories: Self-Care / Self Compassion, Self-Love
Written By:
Brian Scott
It’s well known that exercise is an effective treatment for depression, but recent research has enabled psychiatrists to give guidance on precisely how much exercise is enough exercise to give the desired results when treating depression. So how are therapists using exercise in their treatment regimes, and should they be using it ...
May 14
Categories: Happiness
GOThe power of art to transform people’s lives is well known. Art has been used as a breakthrough technique to reach a patient’s deepest fears, and their most closely guarded emotions. By representing emotions wordlessly, a barrier is lowered, allowing patients to express things that they cannot bring themselves to say, either ...
May 13
Categories: Stress Management
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In 1966, the Beatles wrote about Eleanor Rigby and the lonliness and depression she experienced:
All the lonely people
Where do they all come from?
All the lonely people
Where do they all belong?
Loneliness is something that ...
May 10
Categories: Attachment Issues, Bullying, Codependency / Dependency, Depression, ...
Written By:
Joanna Fishman
The first thing I noticed about Tom was his large frame and piercing eyes. He had come to call me on my mobile phone a few hours ago. And now, we were in a hotel, drinking coffee, and eventually past the pleasantries.He reached for the marrow of his purpose for meeting me. “I need help for ...
May 2
Categories: Addictions, Attachment Issues, Infidelity
Written By:
Dr. Angelo Subida, Psychotherapist
Each of us is alone. In our human existence, aloneness is an inevitable fact of life. We entered this world alone. We will exit this world alone.I've discovered in my life and in the life of others that how we embrace our aloneness determines whether it will be toxic or nourishing.Toxic ...
May 1
Categories: Adjusting to Change / Life Transitions, Adult psychological ...
Written By:
Dr. Angelo Subida, Psychotherapist
There is this man who claims he has no money for therapy. He owns a car and condominium unit, smokes 3 packs of cigarettes a day, and dines out in expensive restaurants. If he sets aside funds even just by stopping smoking, he could afford to pay for his weekly personal therapy.Doctors ...
Apr 29
Categories: Happiness, Self-Care / Self Compassion
Written By:
Dr. Angelo Subida, Psychotherapist
Feelings are a crucial part of the inner life. When one is psychologically disturbed or traumatized, feelings become vulnerable. A person may lose touch of the reality of his feelings. He can be alienated from his feelings.Yet these feelings don't go away. They continue to appear or surface. ...
Apr 27
Categories: Abuse / Abuse Survivor Issues, Emotional Abuse
Written By:
Dr. Angelo Subida, Psychotherapist
I’m reminded of one of Dr. Sigmund Freud’s psychodynamic concepts, “ego defenses.” Ego defenses are inhibiting internal mechanisms that prevent us from “knowing” early emotional pain through rationalizing, analyzing, explaining away, minimizing, ...
Apr 23
Categories: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Emotional Abuse, Emotional Intelligence
Written By:
Dr. Angelo Subida, Psychotherapist
This new century has brought with it the topic of climate change as a constant in the news media. A controversial and complex topic, it involves discerning the potential contributions of solar radiation, continental drift, and greenhouse gas concentrations to the changing levels of vegetation, ...
Apr 23
Categories: Obsessions & Compulsions (OCD)
Written By:
Tony Brown
Healing can happen only in a climate of openness and truth.This is the tragedy of Mina. Mina was caught in adultery, one which traumatized her husband. Her need to deny or "stonewall" her wrongdoing prevented her personal, marital, and family healing. What's her primary wound? I ...
Apr 22
Categories: Addictions, Attachment Issues, Couple Counseling
Written By:
Dr. Angelo Subida, Psychotherapist
Who is a Psychotherapist? You may be unfamiliar with the term or who he or she is. In fact, lots have misconceptions about it.
Two basic words: healer, helper.
A psychotherapist is one who helps people heal and resolve their emotional, mental, behavioral, or relational problems that cause ...
Apr 20
Categories: Mental Health Professions
Written By:
Dr. Angelo Subida, Psychotherapist
In Connecticut USA, a few months ago, about 20 children from an elementary school was massacred by a 20-year-old Adam who also killed his mother and himself.You know, I have a daughter - Angel - who is still in the elementary school. I've held her closer and tighter than before after knowing of ...
Apr 10
Categories: Bereavement
Written By:
Dr. Angelo Subida, Psychotherapist
Do you know that an average toddler laughs about 200 times each day? And according to researchers of laughter, the toddler registers only 6 laughs a day by the time he reaches average adulthood. Tell me, where did the toddler lose 194 laughs?I have a theory. At least, for my self. I think I start ...
Apr 7
Categories: Adult psychological development
Written By:
Dr. Angelo Subida, Psychotherapist
With the stress of everyday life, it's not unusual for a couple to lose their emotional connection. Our relationship therapists cite a number of reasons why a couple loses connection and ends up hardy talking to ...
Apr 4
Categories: Couple Counseling, Empathy, Marital Counseling, Men's Issues, ...
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“The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control their emotions by the application of reason.”
This quote by the 20th century writer Marya Mannes sums up has Western thought has subordinated emotion to intelligence since just after the time of Charles Darwin. Darwin ...
Mar 22
Categories: Emotional Intelligence
Written By:
Tony Brown
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