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This is a terrific movie that opens your heart layer by layer as you watch the screen. It is clear that growing up is a painful experience and that's part of what makes it feel real. The awkwardness, the living in fear of peer judgements and the reaching out to… Continue Reading
I haven't written a blog post in two weeks because I've been intensely working on a new design for the website which I began this summer. Other companies are involved & it's been a long process. I started the site on a vacation ten years ago, at an apartment in… Continue Reading
Addictions are all about feeling good fast without any effort; swallow too much booze or pop a pill & float, find porn on the internet instead of messy sex with someone real, gamble, or have sex with strangers because it adds drama to your life. The opposite of all this… Continue Reading
There often exists great reluctance about taking pills to get better......I myself grew up that way, with a predisposed negativity. I still remember the first time I took adult aspirin & what a miracle it seemed to be, when I was a freshman in college. Even in High School, I… Continue Reading
The Beatles were wrong in their lyrics "All you Need is Love." because that's only true for the first 6 through 9 years. Love makes the beginning of relationships so wonderfully, gloriously CERTAIN. Love keeps us drunk with certainty. It's Tina that knows the truth. Beginnings are the hardest part… Continue Reading
1: The most important criteria for finding a therapist to work with, is feeling you can be totally honest with them. It's crucial to be able to take a leap of faith so that you can spill your guts. Then you can be real with sharing all that is troubling… Continue Reading
Shame, self-hatred & self destruction are often all intertwined. These three make the road to change an obstacle course. This is a triangle of defeat & can stop growth in its tracks. It's a trap that absorbs all of someones energy and it's hard to crawl out of..... The real… Continue Reading
Denial is more powerful than love or hate. It is a force that most people underestimate despite reading about it in newspaper headlines. How did Sandusky's wife not know her husband was sexually abusing boys in their basement? I learned to respect denial over 30 years ago while developing the… Continue Reading
Many of us find great comfort in demonizing our ex spouses or ex friends to make it easier to banish them from our world. This is a very 1 or 10, black or white, self serving point of view. We call this either/or thinking which is always about the extremes.… Continue Reading
[caption id="attachment_2431" align="aligncenter" width="300"] Drawn by Linda Wallen[/caption] There seem to be enormous numbers of people who won't apologize. Apologizing requires openness & vulnerability. Many people hide behind the fallback emotion of anger that rings falsely because it is too puffed up & noisy. Easy access to anger is all… Continue Reading
