“How can he not know how horribly inappropriate it was to give me a blender for my birthday?” “Does she not get that I can’t just spill my guts on demand? Why is she all up in my face...
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Did you know that some of the best resources available to a professional career counselor are available to anyone, and for free? True. I learned of some of them firsthand during my tenure at the US Employment and Training...
I was recently asked to identify the key factors that make employees satisfied and engaged on the job. Two theories came to mind, and both have proved themselves true in my experience in human performance improvement in a number...
Emotional Freedom Technique, or EFT, integrates ancient Asian healing traditions with contemporary Western clinical psychology by combining acupressure (digital pressure applied to acupuncture points) with imaginal exposure (i.e., mental imagery) to traumatic or conflicted feelings, memories, or images. EFT...
I recently read an article in which the author wrote, “I don’t know what makes a good marriage.” It was an advice piece on marriage. That we come out of primary, secondary, and post-secondary education with no instruction in...
Conflicts over the beliefs, practices, rituals and experiences related to a person’s religious or spiritual practices sometimes lead them into counseling or, at least, prove significant in treating the issues that brought them there. A survey of members of...
If only holiday happiness was delivered with the certainty of holiday gifts. Contrary to the joy that the holidays invite, some of us become painfully aware of the incongruity between the ideals of love, kindness, and connection and the...
Some people torture themselves over whether their marriage was a “mistake.” They second guess themselves endlessly about whether they’ve settled for less than the relationship they were supposed to have. The most common cause for their doubt is the...
According to ancient Chinese wisdom, summer is the season for partnership, warmth, joy and passion. Bring summer’s fire to your relationship by doing this exercise with your partner: On separate sheets of paper each write the heading, “I feel...
People use meditation and contemplation to gain calmness and perspective, lower blood pressure, augment medical treatments, reach beyond thought and senses to heightened states of awareness, and for many other reasons. Why not use these practices to renew the...