Freedom from and Freedom to
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View ArticleRespecting Elders in a Society of Rugged Individualism
My intention is to stir up a conversation as to a possible answer to why there seems to be a decreasing degree of 'respecting your elders' in the United Stated and other individual focused cultures (as...
View ArticleThe thoughts, emotions, and behaviors triangle
The Diagram below can be used to understand the interconnectedness of thoughts, emotions and behaviors. Additionally the diagram gives an easy to understand explanation of the many different means of...
View ArticleScientism
Scientism is essentially the result of dogmatism for the scientific method, which leads to gross overgeneralization about the importance or ability of the scientific method. Most speakers on the...
View ArticleIntegrity and Your Social Potential
Perhaps it is at times better to measure your integrity on the degree to which you are asserting your potential to best positively influence the community and to manifest your purpose as opposed to...
View ArticleDemocratically Denying Education – the internal flaw of democracy
Democracy needs education to function properly; without an informed electorate it would be unclear as to what any given person’s vote was based on… this turns voting into a game of chance where we the...
View ArticleSystemics in Psychotherapy
Systems therapists are interested in helping a family, couple, community, school system, country etc. to function with dynamics and structures which best support the well being and potential of the...
View ArticleReflection and Psychotherapy
Reflection is the ability to hold a stimulus in the present moment without reacting automatically. In a state of reflection, a person can notice or observe the presence of a thought or feeling that...
View ArticleFeelings are important in growing consciousness – Existential and Mindfulness...
Accepting your emotional reality and holding an awareness of those feelings helps us to be conscious of how we are currently being influenced … understanding this influence opens up the possibility to...
View ArticleIs Depression the Result of Self-Centeredness?
In this post I will be laying out a hypothesis for how the US’s value of freedom and individualism may be affecting our national depression rates. Continue reading →
View ArticleWhat is a mentally healthy person? Characteristics of an emotionally,...
The purpose of this post is to give a list of the variables that I believe impact a person’s mental health. As a therapist, I help people to augment their abilities in the below attributes. Therapy is...
View ArticleBoy of the Fall (music post)
Quick Summary: This is a song that I wrote originally in 2002ish – but reworked in 2008ish. Music is my means of re-centering… generally I start with a poem and add instrumentation. This song concerns...
View ArticleFeedback loop in a Couples interaction
Quick summary: In a Couples interaction there tend to be dynamics that are reoccurring which spiral out of control and lead to a vicious cycle in which resolution in highly unlikely. I will offer a...
View ArticleStopping unwanted thoughts and daydreams
Quick summary: you have quite a large degree of control over where you keep your attention but often there is an exceedingly appealing reward for keeping our attention on the thoughts and imaginary...
View ArticleParenting Teens with Diabetes
Quick Summary: I will offer two super easy techniques that I use in family therapy to assist a family in structuring itself to best meet the diabetes management needs of a teen. My wife is a senior...
View ArticleCome to Carry us Home (music)
Quick summary: This is a song I wrote in 2010 as I sat in a rocking chair nervously waiting for the first phone call from my biological parents. The song is about the confusion surrounding identity...
View ArticleShed Your Old Skin (Music)
Quick summary: This is a song that I wrote in 2008 about the need to change… fundamentally. I was in a time of extremely heavy stress do mostly to my job placement working with children who had (and...
View ArticleI’m not alone (Music)
Quick Summary: This is a song that I wrote in 2010 about accepting the peace of my current restful space. I was in the process of building up my private practice after about 8 years of working in...
View ArticleWind Blown Hair (Music Post)
Quick Summary: This is a song that I wrote in 2006ish (can’t honestly remember) that playfully uses sounds and images to paint a feeling. The theme surrounds the wisdom that can be faintly experienced...
View ArticleHope in a space of Hopelessness
Quick summary: In this post I will offer a metaphor that sheds light on a common misperception of hope – being that hope is connected only to concrete outcomes… that hope is a belief that things will...
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