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How Do I Know I’m Ready to Change?

It’s a multimillion dollar question: How Do I Know I’m Ready to Change? You have questions you can ask your self to truly know you’re ready to change: 1. How worse will it has to happen before I’m ready to change? 2. At what point I’ve to admit that I’ve become out of control? 3.… Continue reading How Do I Know I’m Ready to Change?

Pain Is A Motivator To Healing

In my own psychotherapy practice, pain is a motivator to healing. It’s a common sight during sessions.  Emotional or mental pain, in particular. People want relief and recovery. By pain, I refer to a person experiencing significant difficulty and suffering in handling life’s issues. Dr. Leon Saul, a psychiatrist and professor from the School of… Continue reading Pain Is A Motivator To Healing

Is Porn Destroying Your Marriage?

Is porn destroying your marriage? Your romantic relationship?  Since his teenage years onwards, Erwin, a therapy client, binges on pornography. Everyday. Almost without fail.  “I can’t control it, doc,” he said during a Zoom therapy session. “It’s been a long time now since our baby was born, my wife wants no more sex!” Last year,… Continue reading Is Porn Destroying Your Marriage?

Focus In The Present

Learn to effectively focus in the present. To be “fully present” in the present. As Jim Elliott put it, “Wherever you are, be all there.” As you do, you learn a healing way of life. It supports the integration of your whole being. Marissa had a lot of “holdovers from the past.” She used to… Continue reading Focus In The Present

Why Family Therapy?

Why family therapy? Whether recognized or not, family therapy is essentially a part of a person’s life recovery and healing process.  Mental health has social roots. And family is basic. You deny or ignore it, you skip an important foundation. In the life of the family, each member contributes to its balance – overtly and… Continue reading Why Family Therapy?

Choose Your Battles

Choose your battles. Say no to nit-picking. Pick only the majors that truly matter. Avoid the minors or trivial. I’m reminded of this saying by Philipp Melanchthon, “In essentials, unity; in nonessentials, liberty; in all things, charity.” A problem that derails this principle is “nit-picking.”  Merriam Webster dictionary defines “nit-picking” as …“a minute, and usually… Continue reading Choose Your Battles

Self Image and the Mind

Self-image and the mind go together. What you think about yourself in your mind shapes the way you live. Cecil Osborne, author of the book “The Art of Understanding Yourself,” writes: “The conscious and unconscious feelings you have about yourself constitute your self-image. This self-image you will act out in life. You will always tend… Continue reading Self Image and the Mind

Healing Your Mind Through Chess

Healing your mind through chess is a regular complement in my psychotherapy practice. You may read an article on Chess Therapy written by a chess coach in India. The author quoted me in his post, describing what I do and write about it. In my own psychotherapy practice, a creative complement I use is healing… Continue reading Healing Your Mind Through Chess

Love Is The Medicine

Love is the medicine. Healing love in a birthday poem of a husband to his wife. Yes, during the Covid year 2020.  See how this healing love looks and feels like in the said poem: “A long time ago, I was a lonely man.  A very broken man. Walks were filled with tears flowing from… Continue reading Love Is The Medicine

Daily Walks Clear Your Mind

Do you know that daily walks clear your mind? Yes, daily walks. About 20 minutes or so. That is proven to be therapeutic and health-maintaining. “Solvitur ambulando,” Saint Augustine once remarked. In plain English, it translates “It is solved by walking.” I walk each day. Usually, after my writing and therapy work, I take my… Continue reading Daily Walks Clear Your Mind

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