Key ingredients in a good relationship.
Compassion and Respect
Comparing can cause harm.
Comparing yourself to others
Unconscious drives and more…
Interesting read
Feel like a misfit?
Feeling like a misfit is a lonely place. Great ted talk about feeling like you don’t fit, coming from hardship and working through the shame that causes us to get in our own way.
Do you really want to make a change?
Stages of change. Good article on what can get in the way of making changes in one’s life.
Pain pill epidemic.
Doctors and Drug Dealers. How different are they? Are doctors the new drug dealers? Controlled substances really aren’t different from street drugs. Pain pills have the same chemical structure as heroin.
Trauma and how anchoring in the present helps the work.
Trauma and dissociation.
How to help someone who is grieving?
Grieving…platitudes and trite responses are not helpful.
Niceness as a defense.
Is being nice also kind?
Love, sex, intimacy, longing
Love and intimacy