anger / anxiety / fear / feelings / management / marriage / relationship / relationships / thoughts
April 1, 2010 3One of the things I’ve found in working with couples over the last 9 years, is that many of them come into session, and the session goes a little something like this: Jack and Jill are fighting more frequently. Jack blames Jill for being too demanding, and they have stopped having intimate moments. Jill blames Jack [...]
So I took a week off from blogging for a couple of reasons. First, I didn’t have much to say, and the Valentine’s Day post seemed to get a lot of attention (though I may be misreading my spam folder). The other is because I’ve been horribly busy (and in this business, when in [...]
I work with a lot of people from all different walks of life. I see people who are successful, some who are not, and some who are just making ends meet. One thing that I find in common no matter where my clients come from is this: Many men suck at Valentine’s Day. Don’t get [...]
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October 29, 2009 3I was going to sit here and blog about death and how Halloween takes death and turns it into something we fear or something that we joke about. I was going to go off on a rant about how horror movies are bad mkay, and that we are trained by society to fear death. Then [...]
Self-Help / anxiety / boss / change / counseling / depression / feelings / management / stress / thoughts / work
October 21, 2009 4With all the talk about the H1N1 virus, people are being more careful than they ever been about trying to stay healthy. Its at a point now where the wipe-grabbing behaviors of Adrian Monk don’t seem so out of the ordinary, when everyone is worried about getting sick. However, its a very real fear. People [...]
If you’re even a casual TV watcher, you probably have seen some of the new ads Microsoft has been showing lately. A few months ago, they decided to start a campaign in response to the “I’m a Mac, and I’m a PC” ads that Apple was putting out (you know the ones: “if you’re hip [...]
Self-Help / anxiety / cheating / children / counseling / depression / feelings / relationship / relationships / thoughts
October 5, 2009 6So a guy who makes all kinds of great movies has apparently been arrested for a sex offense he committed 32 years ago. What’s worse is that Hollywood rallying behind this guy, as if his art somehow absolves him of all blame. They (and by they I mean Woody Allen, Martin Scorsese, David Lynch) [...]
Self-Help / anxiety / change / counseling / feelings / management / relationship / relationships / therapy / thoughts / work
September 30, 2009 6So I was meeting with a client over the course of the last week, and we ended up talking a bit about boundaries and how to apply them to her life. Much of the conversation had to do with how to set boundaries with family members and people she loves, which feels something like trying [...]
So I’ve come to a revelation during my time here. I’ve realized that my approach to problems works for most people and most situations. However, when it comes to relationships, or family members, its really difficult for people to separate their problems into what they can and can’t change when they feel as though their [...]
adults / anxiety / change / counseling / depression / fear / feelings / management / marriage / relationship / relationships / stress / thoughts
September 21, 2009 6So I’m sitting with my wife today and we’re talking over coffee about our friends and how they’re doing lately. One of the things we noticed was that women and men seem to see their friends very differently. Not that we need another reason to create a difference between men and women mind you, because [...]