Tools for Promoting Post Traumatic Growth: #1 (Recasting)
In “How We Choose to be Happy,” Rick Foster and Greg Hicks describe a process they call ‘recasting’. In order to learn how to recast: 1. Identify a problem that you’re currently struggling with 2....
View ArticleTheodore Roszack, our Toxic Culture, Boomers, and Hope
I just learned that Theodore Roszack died this past July in his California home at the age of 77 from liver cancer. I’ll miss him. I’ll miss his wisdom, his perspective, his call to therapists...
View ArticleWhy I Incorporate Positive Psychology into My Therapy
“There are no hopeless situations; there are only people who have grown hopeless about them.” Author Unknown Being a proponent for strength based therapies for the past twenty years, I was extremely...
View ArticleI Love Your Story Still….
I’ve been neglecting this blog as I continue to work on my book, “Dancing in the Dark: Lessons from our Darkest Nights.” And because I still can’t seem to manage to create a new entry today, I want to...
View ArticleThe Chilling Findings Regarding Long Term Use of Psychiatric Medications
First let me say that I am fully aware that psychiatric medications can save lives. My concern is not their existence, but their abuse. All too often people in emotional pain are prescribed medication...
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