What Meanings Do You Attach to Events?
It is possible to gain control over one’s thoughts, beliefs, emotions, and behavioral responses by noticing automatic reactions to various types of events. From years of repetition, the responses seem…
Let It Go
Releasing negative beliefs, thoughts, emotions, behaviors, and conditions can be marvelously exhilarating! However, changing one aspect of your life (or many aspects) brings about other unexpected changes. Some might be…
Distorted Parental Patterns
Dr. Daniel Siegel describes several patterns of functional and dysfunctional parenting that establish later responses akin to PTSD. The first group is children who are fortunate enough to have secure…
Where Do Our Children Get Those Behaviors?
One realizes intuitively the moment the question is asked that behaviors, even difficult or challenging ones, are learned. Johnny doesn’t come out of the womb prepared to have a tantrum…
Mental Health Stresses of Adolescence
The adolescent years are challenging even in relatively problem-free famiies. All bets are off, and what had been true for ten or eleven years is suddenly not true. The well-behaved…
What Meanings Do You Attach to Events?
It is possible to gain control over one’s thoughts, beliefs, emotions, and behavioral responses by noticing automatic reactions to various types of events. From years of repetition, the responses seem…
Let It Go
Releasing negative beliefs, thoughts, emotions, behaviors, and conditions can be marvelously exhilarating! However, changing one aspect of your life (or many aspects) brings about other unexpected changes. Some might be…
Distorted Parental Patterns
Dr. Daniel Siegel describes several patterns of functional and dysfunctional parenting that establish later responses akin to PTSD. The first group is children who are fortunate enough to have secure…
Where Do Our Children Get Those Behaviors?
One realizes intuitively the moment the question is asked that behaviors, even difficult or challenging ones, are learned. Johnny doesn’t come out of the womb prepared to have a tantrum…
Mental Health Stresses of Adolescence
The adolescent years are challenging even in relatively problem-free famiies. All bets are off, and what had been true for ten or eleven years is suddenly not true. The well-behaved…