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Sorting the Past
In the comments after my last post, It’s still no, but still helpful, a number of questions were asked that I felt needed a longer answer than I would want to put in a comment and since they were all...
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To Let Go
Reblogged from Morning Story and Dilbert: To let go does not mean to stop caring, it means I can’t do it for someone else. To let go is not to cut myself off, it’s the realization that I can’t control...
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What I missed
Since I’ve been on the topic of how we work through our grief for that which we did not have, I thought I would share some particulars losses I ran into and what was underneath them. As I’ve worked my...
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(Highly overdue) Blog of the Year 2012 Award
The very lovely Chatte Nocturne from Not All About Cats nominated me for a Blog of the Year award back in early December and I am finally getting around to acknowledging it. So first, thank you so much...
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Silence
I’m doing a shift on the crisis line tonight and someone put up a wonderful quote from Rachel Naomi Remen on the wall. It’s about the power of silence and it’s so good (and true) that I wanted to pass...
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Why keep going back?
***Trigger warning: Religious content, I talk about my Christian faith in pretty specific terms late in the post. A reader emailed to ask me a question whose answer I thought would make a good topic...
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Handling the Erotic Transference: Male Patient, Female Therapist
Reblogged from FEELING UP IN DOWN TIMES: Psychology in real life, for the good life...: Seem to be getting lots of queries about erotic transference, otherwise known as falling for your shrink. Since...
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MIA for a bit
Just wanted to let everyone know that I may be a bit scarce around the blogosphere for a bit. We are coming up on a full release and since I’m the last guy in the pipeline, I tend to get very busy...
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Must Read Blog
I just found a really valuable blog written by Dr. Jeffrey Smith, a psychiatrist who works in Scarsdale, NY. I want to thank his reader K who very kindly linked to my blog, which is how I found Moments...
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How do you protect yourself from the hurt?
Greetings all, sorry I know I have been completely absent as of late. I am still working 10-12 hours a day, six days a week. Should be done in about two weeks which will be nice as I am missing having...
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It’s not really about my mom
Don’t want to leave everyone in suspense but between my schedule and the fact that I am in the midst of trying to understand what is going on inside of me, this will be brief (ok, admittedly, brief is...
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Finally Back
Greetings gentle readers, That hiatus was a twee bit longer than I anticipated. The end of the release kept stretching out without the hours getting any better (the upside is I earned a ton of comp...
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Medication
jwd50 asked over on the Ask AG page why I had never spoken about medications. And I realized its mainly because I have been stable on my medication for a long time such that I don’t really give it a...
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Depleted
Hi All, I am seriously behind in both my correspondence and in posting replies to questions from the Ask AG page. We just returned from a four-day trip to see my older daughter’s graduation (which was...
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Break
I’m going to be taking a bit of a break from the internet; I am feeling like I need to step back and figure some stuff out. I am also feeling extremely fragile and think some space is a good idea. I...
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Peeking out
Hi All, I’m attempting to come back out and play, but its a bit harder (and more complicated) than I thought it would be. Of course, when isn’t it? First, I want to say thank you so much to everyone...
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Monday Pick Me Up
Just a little something to cheer you up on a Monday! Enjoy. 51 Animal Pictures You Need To See Before You Die
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What’s a therapist to do?
Alex asked the question below over on the Ask AG page and I am going to offer my take on it. I am wondering if you have any insight on a psychotherapist’s role when a patient is demonstrating...
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Emotions in Eating Survey
A friend over at psychcafe put up the post below and I wanted to spread the word: A friend of a friend is working on a psychology PhD in Australia, and is doing some research around the role of...
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Some Handy Links
Greetings all, just a quick post to provide some useful information. I am working on a post to talk about how I am actually doing but its slow going. Promise I’ll get there eventually. But in the...
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