trying to enjoy life. But as my therapist once said to me, maybe my definition of “enjoying life” is different from theirs. Maybe they’re just very content constantly complaining about and to each other and living in filth and squalor. Maybe they are so used to each other and each ot...
A therapist or counselor can assess your symptoms and diagnose whether you have a gambling disorder. They can also provide you with strategies to help you stop gambling and manage your symptoms. Depending on your situation, you might also need to seek additional services such as a support group...
we drove to the coroner’s office to collect the items on my brother-in-law’s person at the time of death. The coroner is open to the public for just three hours a day. Receiving the contents
or intentional community, or whatever you call it when neighbors are all cooking together in a big group kitchen but minus the bearded dude in orange robes who sleeps with all the women and the person in sunglasses standing off to the side holding a briefcase filled with everyone’s trust-fu...
Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold. Unfortunately, you can’t choose your family. But luckily, you can always choose your therapist. Family Quotes about Happiness The single most important factor in our long-term happiness is the relationships we have with our...
My family is like the elephant in the story of theblind men and the elephant. It’s so big that no one person can really get the full picture of what’s going on. We can only see a small part at a time, and make conclusions based on that. For a long time, I believed my uncle...
By David Joel Miller, MS, Licensed Therapist & Licensed Counselor. Family. Photo courtesy of Pixabay.com Were you the good kid or the bad kid? It’s common in dysfunctional families for people to be assigned roles. It’s almost as if the family had a closet full of hats and when you...
(here, me) might make to change the status quo or resolve the conflict — there’s an escalation, or other way in which “power-over” is communicated. This communication may be first made in private, but sooner or later can be gestured towards (by the abuser) should it go public, ...
he would need to go somewhere in the shopping center and then call his ABA therapist and then work to describe where he was so the therapist could find him based on the description. This took a LOT of work and when things seemed like they were finally going well, we’d intentionally cha...
( nobody is perfect and in love you have to learn to love a person for the good the bad and the ugly) As far as myself is concerned the bad and ugly was revealed very early in our relationship. I was young and immature as we both were. I made changes for the better as she ...