Tag Archives: Portland Oregon
Shame and Patience
Picking right up with the last post on the Shame Sandwich, I just wanted to leave a brief note about shame and patience. I have been thinking about patience a lot and noticing our collective lack of patience pretty much … Continue reading
2017 The year we didn’t really want.
Back in the blog seat after a very long holiday season. I hope you all are feeling warm and cozy. 2017 seems to be the year that is starting off in a way that can’t help but have a profound … Continue reading
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Tagged 2017, Carrie Fisher, imprinting, inauguration, Portland Oregon, Star Wars, Therapy is Dandy, wishful drinking
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The Lego model of your brain
This is the entry that I try to finish the week before going on holiday. So to make it somewhat easier I thought I would try to combine psychology and Lego. Here it goes. In the past few weeks, with … Continue reading
The Therapy is Dandy Vulnerability Scale.
Time for something different, and an actual tool to use with all of the latest talk around our own vulnerability. I perused the internet and didn’t find a very exciting scale already out there, so I decided we can make … Continue reading
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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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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Therapy is Dandy! 