Recursive Traps

It is often possible to discern a structure to people’s difficulties
in which internal states and external events
continually create the conditions for the reoccurrence of each other.
–Paul Wachtel

Perverse Motivation

God’s error was forbidding the apple.
If He would have forbidden the serpent,
then Adam would have eaten the serpent.
–George Bernard Shaw

Online Course – Suggestions Please

[twg_gpo_button] My academic training in cognitive and neural sciences along with the more expensive education earned over 3 decades of helping my clients escape the self-sabotaging traps they have created …

Self-Efficacy

[twg_gpo_button] I am a psychologist who works with those who can afford my fee. My clients tend to be impressive individuals who generally accomplish what they set out to accomplish; …

Getting Oneself To Do Hard Stuff

You know how you’ve been meaning to do this thing for a while. It’s not even that big a deal. Anyone else would have done it easily. Actually it may be something you really need to do, know you should, want to – in a way. But don’t. Just can’t, it seems.

Below is a list of strategies I have accumulated over the years. Please feel free to add to the list, make comments and to give feedback on what works.

Alcohol Dependence & Will

[twg_gpo_button] Most problem drinkers appreciate that the costs of using alcohol the way they do are greater than the benefits, but they vastly underestimate what it takes to change. As …