2015
For so many men, crying has been given a cold shoulder. If you were a man and you cried, you were described as soft, weak or faint-hearted. Research indicates that there is a biological explanation for this too. It may relate to levels of ...
2015
I have found in the course of my clinical mental health counseling practice work that somethings are so obvious, yet when we are in the moment, we cannot fathom any other perspective. Case in point – when doing marriage & couples therapy, one ...
2015
How often do we feel like we are being slighted? How often does something happen that we interpret as being directed at us? Too often we are but an innocent bystander when other things happen around us. Yet for some reason, we respond as if someone ...
2015
Occasionally, someone will come into my office and we begin our chit-chat about whatever has been going on his/her life since the last time we met. And then, the client says “well, I shouldn’t feel that way,” or asks “Am I too sensitive? Maybe ...
2015
Quite often I am faced with the following question from one or both of my clients (separately or together) in a couples counseling circumstance. “Why should I do anything for him/her, when I don’t see him/her doing anything for me?” When ...
2015
I have found in my practice when working with adults that we spend an inordinate amount of time and energy on things in life that we have little control over. This is most certainly a coping strategy due to one of two factors. Either because the ...
2015
In my practice of working with clients of all different types, invariably when questions have been posed for clarification or to penetrate the heart as a way of healing, he client will respond to the question posed with “I don’t know.” Well, I ...