Rekindling Desire
…urred and helps them to bring physical affection and sexual closeness back into their lives….
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CE Webinar – Love in the Age of Twitter
…ding answers and strategies for helping. So today, as more individuals and couples seek help for their relationship issues, we, the clinicians, can offer better help and insight. So while the changing zeitgeist has provided unique challenges, neuroscience and sociological research is quickly providing answers. Topics to be addressed will include but not be limited to: clinical applications from neuroscience, psychogenic versus autogenic sexual aro…
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Give Yourself a Retreat: The Gift that Keeps on Giving
…hat send their employees on a retreat see happier, more productive staffs. Couples who go away (together or separately) learn valuable and lasting tools in keeping their relationship strong. Parents who take time for themselves are more available and attuned to their children. The excuses to not get away, like you need to spend time with family or get practical affairs in order, will often do you less good in the long run than taking the time for…
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What You Need to Know About Mental Abuse
…e There are many patterns of mental abuse that take place within families, couples and in the workplace. These include: Public humiliation, sarcastic remarks or jokes, overly critical comments or judgments, degrading and/or condescending comments Control and acting parental Pointing out your flaws in a non-constructive way Withholding affection, intimacy, and empathy from you Being isolated and emotionally disconnected Codependency; not treating y…
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The Unselfish Gift of Going on a Retreat
…hat send their employees on a retreat see happier, more productive staffs. Couples who go away (together or separately) learn valuable and lasting tools in keeping their relationship strong. Parents who take time for themselves are more available and attuned to their children. The excuses to not get away, like you need to spend time with family or get practical affairs in order, will often do you less good in the long run than taking the time for…
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If a tree falls in a forest, should I get out of the way?
…intolerable. Given the complexity of the relationship between sensing and experiencing, it becomes clearer as to why there is so much variation in how the same set of circumstances can have widely divergent meanings between individuals. So, how do our children begin to learn about themselves and what is meaningful to them? There is a big difference between knowing (as in reporting data, events, etc.) and being known (by self or by others) which i…
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Negative Feelings, Essential Signals on the Road of Life: Supporting our Children on their Path
…about the kind of partner that suits us best and what it takes to sustain relationships. Part of having a full life is fitting in and having relationships and these social negative emotions help our children learn how to do this. While we have many distractions and conveniences in our own lives that leave us numb to our emotions, perhaps it is time to reconsider the impact that this avoidance has on our children. Being able to quickly evade or es…
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What Parents Need to Know About the Teenage Brain
…cessarily attuned to the child. An important first step for changing their relationship with their child is for parents to better understand their own minds. In Brainstorm, Dr. Siegel further suggests that parents would benefit from gaining insight into their own attachment histories. A person’s attachment style is formed in their first years, yet it shapes how they relate throughout their lives. By coming to know their own attachment patterns, pa…
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"If All You Have is a Hammer, Everything Looks Like a Nail" by Debra Kessler, Psy.D.
…lone, frustrated, and like they’re failures again! So, if consequences for troublesome behavior aren’t working to “teach,” we haven’t yet found the right trigger and need to look further. Triggers are highly individualized and children need their parents to notice with them. Some factors that compromise all of us are sleep, hunger, illness, and allergies. Furthermore, like all of us, children build expectations based on past experiences and, there…
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Fighting the Emotional Battles of Breast Cancer
…he took care of me, and I allowed him to take care of me, and the physical relationship and the emotional relationship only deepened.” Remember to have fun! Focus on the future! Fighting breast cancer is a difficult undertaking with the intensity of the treatment and the side effects, the emotional reactions plus the attacks of the critical inner voice. It is easy to lose sight that there is still joy in life. Yet there is still fun to be had. In…
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