When you’re alone and life is making you lonely (Petula Clark) you can always try out a new therapy. Check out our Top 10 Best Therapies for 2012: 1) Talk Therapy. Well, duh! 2) Chocolate Therapy. Ben and Jerry’s has a trademarked flavor with this name. Chocolate ice cream with chocolate cookies and swirls of chocolate pudding ice cream. Seriously, the best chocolate ... Read More »
You can’t change others; you can only change yourself. I was explaining this to a couple in for marital counseling. I shared with them that modern day therapy is not about wallowing around in the past. Instead it is about changing behavior. That’s why counseling is no longer referred to as mental health. It’s now called behavioral health. In listening ... Read More »
It had been a rough week and my husband, Bob and I were giving ourselves a well-deserved rest. After sleeping in–we decided no rules, no work, no commitments, and all the movies we wanted to watch beginning with an afternoon movie. For us, workaholics that we are, that would be like drinking in the middle of the day. Our DVD was ... Read More »
I can’t think of any subject that could use more harmony in this country than politics, so a story about finding harmony between people of different political persuasions. . . . I read an article in Time (December 17) by Rob Long, a rare conservative in liberal Hollywood. He wrote about how gentle and understanding his liberal friends were after ... Read More »
Recently I saw a man whose drinking had gotten so bad that it was going to cost him his wife and family. After two sessions of straight talk, he’d gotten sober and changed the course of his life. Before therapy he didn’t even realize he had a drinking problem. Then I saw a recent college grad who was so stressed ... Read More »
That’s from Cat Stevens of course. So how do you ride the Peace Train? Well, if I was on a desert island and I could only bring one mental health tool to help me keep my sense of peace, it would be this one: don’t get pulled into the drama. Would you like to hear what some of my clients ... Read More »