The Self Under Siege: A Therapeutic Model for Differentiation “How much of our identity or self is truly representative of our own wants and goals in life, and how much does it reflect the wants and priorities of someone else?” This is the question ...
Re-Gifting or Re-Giving? General wisdom these days declares that passing along a gift is tacky. Reasonable people get unreasonably offended when they even suspect that the puce ...
When You Can’t Afford Psychotherapy You know you’re in trouble. Maybe you’ve been depressed for what seems like ages. You can’t get motivated to do things. You ...
Siblings Don’t Have to be Rivals Siblings are the people we practice on, the people who teach us about fairness and cooperation and kindness and caring, quite ...
OCD, Guilt and Religion "For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he…."
~ Proverbs 23:7
Grace had grown up in a religious home. She ...
In Defense of Courtship “A froggy went a-courtin’ he did ride. . .”
~ From a 16th-century English folk song
Courtship. It’s such an old-fashioned word that some might ...
Treatment of ADHD in Children Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) can take quite a toll on both the adults and the child who has the disorder. It's ...
Suffer the Children: The Case Against Labeling and Medicating When a child has an emotional or behavioral problem, their school often recommends that they see a psychiatrist. This psychiatrist typically labels the child with a disorder, then advises the parents that the child should ...
Healing Those Stubborn Emotional Wounds Mary was experiencing low self-esteem and worthlessness.
She’d say her eyes were "broken faucets." She’d cry often, and would easily ...
OCD: When Once is Not Enough “Say good-night mommy, say good-night,” pleaded Johnny every night. It wasn’t as if he had not already ...
Parenting Well Means Being Well Prepared The International Day for Disaster Reduction is October 12. And my thoughts are turning more that direction than toward Halloween ...
OCD and Hyper-responsibility One of the driving forces behind obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is an inflated sense of responsibility, known as hyper-responsibility. Those who suffer from ...
Playing the Genetic Lottery In her first novel, Playing the Genetic Lottery, Terri Morgan tells the story of Caitlin Kane, a young woman whose parents and sibling suffer from schizophrenia. The novel is written as a sort of faux-memoir ...
