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What it *ACTUALLY* Means When People Tell You Healing Comes From Within

Let's try a thought exercise: Most of us have a thought-life, or a belief, or a pattern of behavior that sabotages things for us. It...

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When Your Mental Health is the Last Item on Your To-Do List

I have the good fortune of being surrounded by people, both personally and professionally, who are the exact kind of people you'd want in...

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When Self-Knowledge is the Goal INSTEAD of Eliminating Bad Feelings

This week I dreamed I was armed and fighting a war with all the faceless parts of myself. I was being fired upon, explosions all around...

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These 3 Things When Searching Your Ideal Therapist

In searching for the ideal therapist, most seem to utilize the imperfect tool of Google with its dehumanized algorithms. It is natural to...

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How to Think Differently About Your Depression

When working with individuals, there are 3 primary ways I think about depression. Let's explore which one best describes your experience...

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What is Narrative Therapy?

Two prominent Marriage & Family therapists, Michael White and David Epston, saw potential in the narrative metaphor in that a story is a...

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Why Brainspotting?

Trauma can become lodged in subcortical regions of the brain, kind of like "Trauma capsules" buried at a particular point in time when...

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Important Facts About Addiction & the Family

Too frequently, addicted persons can be treated as though they are the cause or source of the problem. If they would just get their...

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Why You Should NOT Google Your Dreams

Even the world's greatest search engine that mines and stores and sells all your data is not sophisticated enough to know the complex...