Raising Assertive Kids Assertiveness isn’t necessarily innate. While it might come naturally to some people, it’s largely a skill -- and an important one at ...
5 Tips to Increase Your Assertiveness “Assertiveness is all about being present in a relationship,” according to Randy Paterson, Ph.D, a clinical psychologist and author ...
Anger Trigger Behaviors The vast majority of chains of angry behavior never proceed past the first link. For example, someone in the family will tease or insult ...
October is Domestic Violence Month Domestic violence remains a huge and largely hidden problem. The purple ribbons you may have seen recently on car bumpers and people’s ...
Don’t Let Fear Destroy Your Relationship Why do we fight with our partners? I’m not referring to small arguments that resolve reasonably quickly with a compromise. ...
I Love You. Now Change. She married him because he was hardworking. She was considering divorce because he turned out to be a workaholic who was barely ...
How a Bully Is Made The short- and long-term harm done to bullying victims has received much attention lately. The complex web of factors which go into ...
A Band-Aid for a Marriage in Crisis Imagine a heavy-duty truck riding off the road, slipping down a hill and getting stuck in thick, sticky mud. Trying ...
In the Zone: Depression and Emotions Introduction: This article proposes a non-drug treatment for depression in terms of hidden emotions. It appears that most depression involves ...
The Squeaky Wheel: Complaining the Right Way to Get Results Have you ever noticed how good you feel when something gets resolved after complaining about it? Conversely, if a solution is not reached do you oftentimes feel worse than you did before?
Be it in our ...
Being Good vs. Being Codependent Is the way that you are ‘being good’ to your loved ones actually caring and good?
Or are you involved in codependent ...
Got An Angry Kid? Parenting Spike: A Seriously Difficult Child Search Barnes and Noble or Amazon for self-help books on “child discipline” and over 8,000 titles show up. Eight thousand! You can find magic 1-2-3, positive discipline, discipline without tears, how to discipline with one ...
A Lifetime of Joy after Clinical Depression This is a true story, as told to us by Alice (not her real name):
When I was born my mother was dismayed -- she didn’t want a child ...
Rejecting Childhood Rejection “I can’t figure it out,” one of the writers to Psych Central's "Ask the Therapist" column wrote recently. “My parents never give me any emotional support or even seem to like me. I always get ...
Dealing with Anger Constructively We all get angry. But for some people this basic and powerful human emotion is difficult to manage. We may have trouble expressing anger, or even recognizing it in ourselves. On the other ...
Reacting on Autopilot: When Good Intentions Fall Short Disclaimer: The characters from these vignettes are fictitious. They were derived from a composite of people and events for the purpose of representing real-life situations and psychological dilemmas which occur in families.
Julius was a ...
