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Category Archives: Psychology
Why Am I Reacting This Way?
After years and years of therapy, I’m finding my self-talk moving away a little from wondering why other people act the way they do to why do I react the way I do. For instance, instead of worrying quite so … Continue reading
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Mark Twain: The Worst Loneliness Is To Be Not Comfortable With Yourself
I’ve struggled with feelings of loneliness throughout my life. This webinar explores the topic better than anything I’ve heard before. Alexandra Katehakis: * What does it feel like in my body to be alone now? Am I lonely because there … Continue reading
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Why Don’t I Ever Feel Heard?
I have spent my life struggling with the feeling that I am not being heard. I guess it goes back to my early years in foster care. Whatever the cause, it is a big reason I blog. The healthier I … Continue reading
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Breaking The Family Trance
When you think you’ve changed through therapy and workshops, go home for the holidays and see what happens when your family pushes your buttons. Therapist Jerry Wise: “All of us grow up in families in which we are hypnotically induced … Continue reading
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Over-Seriousness Kills Self Differentiation
Therapist Jerry Wise: “Over-seriousness is a reactive state…when we become immature, naive…when we enmesh through seriousness and intensity. This lessens our self-differentiation and clouds our self-awareness.” “So often, people are talking and someone becomes very serious… If we are the … Continue reading
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My Emotional Shell Keeps Me Safe But Not Happy
Therapist Jerry Wise: “The belief that someday I will find someone who will love me in ways I don’t love myself. That’s an immature dependency-needs approach. I’m going to find that special someone who will love me in ways I … Continue reading
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When Can Others Hurt Us?
Mass email: Many of us entertain a fantasy that some person can complete us. We don’t believe that we’re complete in ourselves. Only when we do will we become able to share in a life-enhancing partnership with another person. Only … Continue reading
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Nature Vs Nurture
I’m listening to a lecture on Social Neurobiology by UCLA pyschiatrist Daniel Siegel: “One way of describing shy kids is that they have more reactive right hemispheres. Jerome Kagan (of Harvard) found that depending on what the parents did, shaped … Continue reading
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Parenting From The Inside Out
I love this Daniel Siegel book. Here are excerpts that moved me: For those whose histories included a sense of emotional unavailability and a lack of attuned, nurturing parenting, there may have been an adaptation that minimizes the importance of … Continue reading
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An Anxious-Avoidant Begins A Relationship With A Secure
Here’s some background on attachment theory and romance. I interviewed a female friend who has an anxious/avoidant attachment system and comes from a similar upbringing to me: When you are loved consistently by a good man, what comes up for … Continue reading
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