Category Archives: Therapy
Identify your vulnerability and put it on a t-shirt.
That’s basically today’s suggestion. I mean it. Maybe not literally, but at least for you and those you trust to know what is on your hypothetical-if-not-real-therapy t-shirt. I have had bad ideas when it comes to t-shirts in the past, … Continue reading
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Tagged Gestalt therapy, Portland Oregon, Superman, The Usual Suspects, Therapy is Dandy, vulnerability
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Interrupt and Intercept the Critical Thoughts and the Emotions will follow.
I haven’t had an opportunity to talk about Bruce Lee for a while and it occurred to me last time that all this talk about interrupting negative self talk also had me thinking about intercepting them, as in The Way … Continue reading
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Professional Interruptions Part 2. The Car Accident.
Or how to interrupt your internal negative critic. As much I said this post is a continuation on the professional interrupting idea from last time, I have to acknowledge that this is also about the nature of emotion and how … Continue reading
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Tagged anxiety, Car collisions, counseling, Donald Trump, drama, Inside Out, interiority, meditation, Portland, Therapy is Dandy, Walt Whitman
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Trauma can be a pretty intimidating word
So why don’t we try to cut it down to size for easier consideration? As stated elsewhere in the blog once upon a time one of the best parts of my profession is that I get to read a lot … Continue reading
Breaking Internet Silence
Therapy is still quite dandy here in Portland Oregon, but I know the blog has been quiet for some time. Hope you are doing all right where ever you are reading this from. So, I have been rather preoccupied with … Continue reading
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People want to be right.
Therapy can be hard. I know I haven’t posted a lot recently, but it’s because therapy can be really hard. I mean the kind of hard that makes you hate it. It can make you hate yourself, hate your therapist, … Continue reading
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Tagged anger, anger management, Clarice Starling, counseling, dandy therapy, Darth Vader, emotional repression, fear, Fire on the Mountain, Hannibal Lecter, Henry Cameron, I am a Rock, Luke Skywalker, negative self talk, Portland Oregon, psychic armor, Reich, Simon and Garfunkel, Validation, Xbox
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Social Anxiety
(It sucks) The small town I grew up in had a public school system with a progression that was: elementary school, junior high school and then high school. Junior high was 7th grade to 9th grade. So, as a freshman, … Continue reading
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Tagged anxiety, arrested development, cottage grove, elementary school, empty chair, four horseman of apocalypse, Gestalt therapy, introverts, joy division, junior high, locker room etiquette, motivation, peer pressure, Portland Oregon, puberty, recess, social bullshit, Therapy is Dandy
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Counseling is Yoga for your brain
As in it gives you increased flexibility, endurance, and strength. It’s really quite that simple. When our bodies lose flexibility, strength or endurance, we tend to want to do something about that. Some loss happens with age, but exercise can … Continue reading
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