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What Makes A Friend?
So, I’ve been thinking about what makes an old friend very special. Of course, the best way to reflect on this topic is with my oldest friend, Hedda Leonard. Here is our list, complied by sending...
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Daily Acts
After attending a friend’s big birthday party, my daughter Keira mentioned that the young woman’s mother was not supportive. As a knee-jerk reaction, always protective of moms, I said (without...
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‘Tis The Season: 6 Tips For Roommate Management
These are the weeks when college students move into dorm rooms and apartments. Freshman are the newest people at sharing close quarters. Everyone moves in with high hopes and good intentions, but…....
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A Quick Tip To Improve Communication
Many couples come into my office and describe their problem as “communication,” a vague concept. In this post, I would like to describe one way for people to improve their general communication with...
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Sex is a Five Letter Word
It has been stunning to watch the sexual predators fall with the speed of video characters in an online game. To women who have known how entrenched sexual harassment is, the daily outing of sexual...
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Adults With ADHD (Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder) And Therapy
For many children diagnosed with ADHD, the symptoms persist well into adulthood. When adults learn that these lifelong symptoms have a name, they are often greatly relieved. They have been thinking...
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What Makes The Therapy Relationship Work?
For those of you who are familiar with therapy, either as clients or therapists, or both, have you ever thought about the reasons why sometimes therapy clicks and a bond is formed – and sometimes the...
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Warnings
I think that it was the psychologist Carl Jung who wrote about warnings. He believed that warnings were messages we received regularly, but that we did not always attend to them. It is up to us whether...
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Failure to Launch
Failure to launch or “Adult entitled dependence” is a concept that refers to: 1.) extreme dependence of grown children on their family and, 2.) high levels of dysfunction in adult children who are not...
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What Factors Create ‘Failure to Launch’?
In Tuesday’s post, I wrote about a phenomenon called Failure to Launch, characterized by: 1.) extreme dependence of grown children on their families and, 2.) high levels of dysfunction given that these...
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