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Your relationship to Women in Art needs to be considered. This is reblogged because I find it thought provoking & important. Unfortunately I could not find the series on DVD to buy or watch. Continue Reading
Affairs & Infidelity are rarely as simple as someone was good while the other was bad. This is too simplistic an explanation but we all love it because it's easier to digest,rather than the difficult truths underneath. We love the simplicity of being judgmental or of gossip; someone is the… Continue Reading
I asked my friend Laurel Coppersmith M.S.W. to write a guest post because she has spent 25 years doing EAP work & 23 years in private practice. I respect her wisdom enormously: People spend 2/3's of their waking hours at work. Workplaces are highly stressful these days, and the experience… Continue Reading
Improving self-awareness is often a key to success in psychotherapyidea. In sessions I often consider how someone is lopsided or what's missing. Three of the art works at the 2014 Carnegie International did exactly the same thing in paying attention to opposite energy. Fear is something many people are lopsided… Continue Reading
therapyideaideas.net has been up & running since 2003. This is it's third reincarnation. When on the net it's crucial to keep adapting & updating (just like aging over the decades). When working on major changes or initially building the website I require long stretches of uninterrupted time. This April I… Continue Reading
PTSD & trauma includes experiencing the terrible sins of war, rape, or incest. PTSD makes you question the very core of who you are, like a jellyfish stranded on the sand. You are shaken to the roots of your sense of self & you now question everything. "When I was… Continue Reading
"People refuse to recognize complexity, he said. What's shame in one man is grief in another, and they are not the same thing. What's pig-stupidity is cowardice in another and blind in a third, and they are not the same thing, either. You'd think that would be simple enough to… Continue Reading
"...it is so profoundly dangerous [that] we are losing our tolerance for vulnerability... vulnerability is absolutely at the core of fear and anxiety and shame and very difficult emotions that we all experience. But vulnerability is also the birthplace of joy, of love, of belonging, of creativity, of faith. And… Continue Reading
"Trash has given us an appetite for art." - Pauline Kael Note: Six terrific movies that capture the victim, rescuer, persecutor drama triangle are listed on the manipulation page of this website. It's worth the effort to educate yourself about this game before you see the movies. It's a game… Continue Reading
"The world was meant for you and me To figure out our destiny(A Thousand Beautiful Things) To Live,To Die,To Breathe,To Sleep,To try to make your life complete- Lyrics from the song A Thousand Beautiful Things by Annie Lennox Happiness: Happiness is not a goal. Happiness is a by-product of life… Continue Reading
