Therapy Observations 2
Motivation Therapy is so very often about motivation – how to get yourself to do this or stop that; or get your partner to. In recent months, I’ve seen a …
THERAPY OBSERVATIONS
These are some of the challenges and patterns from therapy sessions that I find myself thinking about: wondering what is helpful and wanting to know what others do. My Broken …
Exquisite Dilemmas
An Exquisite Dilemma is when what one partner needs is exactly what the other cannot tolerate. Some Examples Tanya has a thing about “running out of stuff” or not having …
Including Yourself in the Equation
“Remember to include yourself in the equation”, I am often telling women who are very good at figuring out how to address the problems of others or to accommodate their …
Pulling Up Into Adult
Pulling Up Into Adult offers a physical shift that gives you a different perspective of the outside, different feelings on the inside, as well as a different appearance to others. …
Semi-Structured Activities
Semi-structured activities ease difficult social, relational and emotional situations by allowing you to focus on something other than the anxiety-provoking elements of the social setting, the relational tension or your …
Doing the 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 …
Calming Your System
Feeling anxious? Agitated? Frenzied? Upset with yourself? Someone else? Life in general? Finding it hard to think straight? Need to calm down enough to figure out where to go from …
Anti-Insomnia Rules
Rule 1: First it is important that you choose a standard wake-up time and stick to it every day regardless of how much sleep you actually get on any …
Cognitive Behavior Therapy
Few of us have been taught how to think, and we tend to follow the thinking patterns that emerged when we were children. Alas, some of these primitive thinking patterns …