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Letting go of the idea of the perfect family

Marcia Watts Posted in - Library - Family and Parenting

As attached as we might be to the idea of the "perfect family", one can't help wondering if such a family exists. After all, being in a family means having to deal with w ... Read more..

Taking care of yourself in stepfamily

Marcia Watts Posted in - Library - Family and Parenting

It may seem a little strange in a discussion about family relationships to talk about taking care of number one, but believe me it’s a really important and healthy thing to ... Read more..

Advice to therapists working with Stepfamilies

Marcia Watts Posted in - Library - Family and Parenting - Therapy

One important piece of advice I would offer as both therapist and stepmother to another therapist working with stepfamilies, is try not to push too hard and too soon for chang ... Read more..

How much is too much intimacy in therapy?

Kate Mikhailouskaya Posted in - Library - Relationships - Therapy

I never thought I was wary of intimacy and closeness before I came to realise this in my journey as a client with a psychodynamic therapist. The turning point of realisation o ... Read more..

Gratitude

Marcia Watts Posted in - Library - Emotions

Gratitude is something we can overlook and yet it offers such powerful benefits to our mental health. There are many benefits of expressing gratitude ranging from better physi ... Read more..

Building Trust

Marcia Watts Posted in - Library - Human Condition - Relationships

In this blog I’d like to focus on the issue of building trust and what this means for us as those seeking to grow, build community, and come along side others strug ... Read more..

Healing after Betrayal

Shushann Movsessian Posted in - Library - Relationships

Betrayal is a breaking of trust and goodwill in a relationship that can take a long time to heal from and can leave us changed forever. It has broken marriages, ended ... Read more..

Embodied Imagination work with trauma

Michelle Morris Posted in - Library - Trauma - Therapy

This story is about the experience of Embodied Imagination (EI) work, with a traumatic memory of sexual violation, by a group of teenage boys which a client I will call Miriam ... Read more..

Remarriage and step-parenting

Marcia Watts Posted in - Library - Family and Parenting

Families, whether biological or chosen, are what give most people’s lives their shape. Most of our happiest and most tragic experiences are somehow connected with family ... Read more..

What do we talk about when we talk about love

Peter Ellingsen Posted in - Library - Therapy

Raymond Carver came up with a memorable title for his 1981 collection of short stories. As a moniker, What do we talk about when we talk about love has it all. It points to th ... Read more..

Depression: The price we pay to love?

Peter Ellingsen Posted in - Library - Anxiety and Depression - Therapy

WHO KNOWS what pushes us over the edge? A middle aged woman I once interviewed said the depression that stole her life was a mix of childhood and genes. Parents who did not sh ... Read more..

Bacash Meditation Therapy

John Bacash Posted in - Library - Therapy

The purpose of the exercise We can have extreme emotional reactions to what comes to mind involuntarily. It may sound strange but anxiety and depression can come from just be ... Read more..

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