Posted on Jul 30th, 2006 No Comments »
Patterns of living are passed down from generation to generation. This happens through the vehicles of modeling, genes, interaction, highly-charged experience, illness and the like. In the last month, I have been able to witness what is passing down the generations in the family of which I am a part; and I am […]
Posted on Jul 17th, 2006 No Comments »
My morning paper [West County Times, Contra Costa County, California] has an article about singer India.Arie. It states: “But those who pick up her latest album, ‘Testimony, Vol. 1: Life & Relationship,’ won’t hear any of the bitterness she once harbored. Instead, in what has become India.Arie’s philosophy, she manages to find […]
Posted on Jul 13th, 2006 No Comments »
7/13/2006 Thursday 9am to 10am Pacific Time
Houston-based Imago-trained Licensed Professional Counselor Renee Lederman started out as a middle school counselor, who had opportunity to observe how girls related to their bodies as they blossomed into womanhood. Intrigued, she began to interview women around the world–in Paris, Barcelona, Dubrovnik (Croatia) and throughout the […]
Posted on Jun 6th, 2006 No Comments »
Remember the name! Dr. Emil Coccaro, chairman of psychiatry at the University of Chicago’s medical school, funded by the National Institute of Mental Health, and two of his medical colleagues, has just given us evidence from biology and cognitive science that Intermittent Explosive Disorder is a real “illness,” for which people can be diagnosed, […]
Posted on May 27th, 2006 No Comments »
We did a survey not long ago that shocked me, but (sadly) did not surprise me. We called 37 of the nearly 60 colleges and graduate schools in California that train psychotherapists to do their craft. We called very large California universities, and the smaller, specialized schools as well. We asked this […]
Posted on May 19th, 2006 No Comments »
Today’s “front page” on AOL contains an article about “happy slapping,” the humiliating “game” of punching, hitting or slapping someone, unexpectedly, and having the incident filmed (with video camera or cell phone) and publicized on the Internet. Largely perpetrated by teens, according to this report, and inspired by several television shows, “Happy Slapping” got […]
Posted on Apr 18th, 2006 No Comments »
It’s come up more than once in the past week, so it’s time to revisit this topic again!
Many years ago, as part of my healing as a “Recovering Angry Person,” I realized that whenever I feel angry (and especially the hurt that is always underneath), I must deal with it, upfront. If I don’t, […]
Posted on Apr 7th, 2006 No Comments »
Last night was scary at my house. My son came to visit, to help me with some computer issues, and as he drove over the hill, an irate driver (for no apparent reason, according to my son), began to crowd his bumper and blow his horn. I was on the cell phone with […]
Posted on Mar 29th, 2006 No Comments »
Today is an auspicious day, marked especially by a solar eclipse. I was listening to a tape distributed by my friend, Jon Fox, in which it was emphasized that this is a time for us to move ourselves toward forgiveness–all of us. Now, forgiveness was a very difficult thing for me for many […]