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Bipolar Disorder Fundamentals
In considering bipolar disorder, it's important to understand a few fundamental things to pay attention to, symptoms, triggers, and the wisdom of a tracking sheet. Let's take a look at the ABC's of this right now:
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How to Ask for What You Want: a Fable and a Story
When I first saw a couple I'll call Rachel and Jim, they were ready to divorce. Tension was high in the room as they talked. They were caught in a negative cycle, where each person's reaction helped keep it going. After I understood how each of them felt, I helped them see how they were stuck in that cycle.
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Sometimes We Must Fight, But Let's Know When
With conflict being the center of attention recently, it's critical to clarify what place fighting has in our world. What is there to fight against? When is it necessary to set limits? How do you establish such boundaries? And, is fighting ever justified to enforce life-affirming stands?
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Asylum Squad: Comic Strip 4
This installment of the comic is based on my perceived contact with aliens, and on my recurring fears about being around electricity at the time. Feeling extra sensitive through each of my five senses, I feared that electrical current was affecting my health, and for a long while I refused to sleep around it, fearing that it was affecting my health.
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Our Anxiety Disorders Topic Center has been Updated!
I am pleased to announce that we have entirely refreshed our Anxiety Disorders topic center. This has been a major undertaking with a few false starts along the way. It is good to finally get it out there.
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Step Outside Your Comfort Zone
In order to manage painful emotions, people can find themselves limiting experience and constricting their activities and thoughts. Fear of rejection and loss lead to avoidance of situations that might result in loss or rejection. In an attempt to prevent more negative experiences and to escape potential painful emotions some begin to limit what they allow themselves to do. Rather than approach new situations that could possibly trigger any strong emotion, they avoid and evade.
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Rewiring Your Brain for the Digital Age: A Good Thing?
I have just been in the process of deciding on a publisher for my upcoming book. In this process I learned of some exciting developments in the publishing world with the integration between books and the web. For example, you can now build in pictures in the book that you point your phone at and that pops up a video of me explaining a certain mindfulness practice. Pretty cool. At the same time I was introduced to an article in the NY Times that speaks of the potential neurological price we pay f
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The Author of Your Fate
Among the first discoveries of a person seeking to escape an Addictive Disorder is that the challenge is different than they thought. The will to refrain from incentive use is certainly necessary, but most people are good at heroics and can resist temptation. . . for a while. In fact, problem drinkers often use their ability to stop drinking as proof they are not problem drinkers. The problem is not an inability to withstand temptation; the problem is relapse.
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Too Many Forms
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Middle Childhood Parenting Material Completed
We are pleased to announce that we have finished the creation of our new Middle Childhood (ages 8-11 years) material.
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