A good percentage of the people who seek therapy with me tell me that their previous counselor didn’t do much more in their sessions than listen, nod, and occasionally ask what they were feeling.So it shouldn’t have surprised me when a client several months ago...
If you’re willing to be objective and watch all your thoughts, you’ll see that the vast majority of them have no relevance. They have no effect on anything or anybody, except you. They are simply making you feel better or worse about what is going...
When I was growing up, my mom worked as a jr. high school guidance counselor. Friends would meet me, learn what my mom did for a living, and then ask if I had pep talks on self-esteem all the time. I don’t know if self-esteem...
Acceptance is the first step to feeling better, whatever one’s ailment is. If you are sitting in traffic, and you’d prefer not to be sitting in traffic, you are resisting life as it is. Since there is nothing you can do to change the traffic,...