Will you want to get well? Sounds a strange question. You may be surprised many do, but in reality they don’t know that they actually don’t want to. They blame others. They make excuses. They play the victim role. Dr. Bruce Larson, in his book “There’s A Lot More To Health Than Not Being Sick,”… Continue reading Will You Want To Get Well?
Category: Spirituality and Psychotherapy
Dealing With Isolation
I’ve been thinking today of dealing with isolation. It appears uniform of the day again. With the worsening Covid crisis, there has been renewed quarantines and lockdowns. How do we face this? Understanding how isolation affects our health can be a relevant first step for self care. Dr. Philip Zimbardo, a psychology professor at Stanford… Continue reading Dealing With Isolation
Searching For Meaning This Pandemic
Nowadays, people are restless – searching for meaning this pandemic. Questions abound. What’s the purpose of life with all these crises and uncertainties? Where do I go? Are my priorities still holding? How should I feel? “It’s almost 2 years now, this Covid thing. Times when I just stare at anything. And freeze. I can’t… Continue reading Searching For Meaning This Pandemic
Forgiveness Does Not Equal Trust
Forgiveness does not equal trust. That is inevitable hard reality in human relationships. Since trust is a fragile thing, it needs time and process to be repaired when broken. “Why can’t you move on from here and trust me. I already told you the other woman is gone!” David told his wife Dina during a… Continue reading Forgiveness Does Not Equal Trust
Prepare For Possible Future Crisis
Nowadays, the call is to prepare for possible future crisis. We are living through a deadly global pandemic. That’s just being plain realistic. Facing the facts as they are. To have a plan. To prepare. And to take action as we move along. Mario crashed. He lacked enough cash to feed his family. He lost his… Continue reading Prepare For Possible Future Crisis
How Do I Know My Spouse Is Changing?
A million-dollar question: How do I know my spouse is changing? It’s something that always comes up in marital therapy sessions. The betrayed or victim wonders about it. Reality shows us that change must happen if a broken, wounded relationship is to survive. This is especially applicable to cases of emotional trauma involving infidelity. Can… Continue reading How Do I Know My Spouse Is Changing?
Do You Have C-PTSD?
Do you have C-PTSD? PTSD, a known psychiatric diagnostic category, stands for “post-traumatic stress disorder.” The attached C stands for “complex.” Nowadays, the C may stand for “Covid” which is a kind of PTSD. Roberto, all these months of Covid, experiences serious difficulties – physically and mentally. He has difficulties sleeping, eating, and resuming his… Continue reading Do You Have C-PTSD?
Books That Heal Mental Disorders
Psychotherapy advocates books that heal mental disorders. It’s called “Bibliotherapy.” As the applied words of writer W. Somerset Maughan put it, “To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for your self a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.” Chris is my 28–year-old long time therapy patient. He’s an avid reader of… Continue reading Books That Heal Mental Disorders
When Being False To The Truth
Psychotherapy heals by truth, so it necessarily directly deals with “being false to the truth.” Because … it’s truth that sets us free. Yet this remains a major problem of humankind. There is an enemy within. This disorder gets worsened for persons going through unmanageable mental and spiritual problems. Especially those who sabotage themselves and… Continue reading When Being False To The Truth
Good Trouble Versus Bad Trouble
Good trouble versus bad trouble. Be a good troublemaker. Yes, it means not the bad kind. For there is a difference between two kinds of trouble. Marie has a husband who is a serial womanizer and wife-beater. All these years, she just endured the pain and injustice. She simply kept quiet. She didn’t want to… Continue reading Good Trouble Versus Bad Trouble
