By Jeanine Austin, Ph.D.
Recently, I did a several favors for a woman in my community. Because she is in a similar line of work as I am, I also offered to help her when she expressed frustration about her success. Seemingly abruptly she mentioned a recent accomplishment I had and said curtly, “You attributed ____ to the wrong person. There was a person that said it before.” Shocked, I changed the subject. Read the rest of this entry »
By Jeanine Austin, Ph.D.
In the Bible we read “And first there was the word”. After reading that often I think, “Then everything got really tricky!”
There are different ways of communicating which most of us are familiar with. There are probably others on the continuum, but the four basics modes of communication are: passive, assertive, passive-aggressive and aggressive. We are all working towards becoming assertive. I hear from a majority of my female clients that they struggle with being too passive. They are in fear of being assertive because they feel their assertions may come off as aggressive or as an attack on the other person. They don’t want to ruffle feathers, be unlikable or goodness forbid, plain old mean! However, if we don’t express our truth we become resentful and often passive-aggressive or even outright aggressive. Read the rest of this entry »
By Jeanine Austin, Ph.D.
Most of us are very familiar with the dance between peace and chaos. Everything is going smoothly or at least nothing stands out as being a major challenge. We feel like life has allowed us to take a deep breath. We feel we have finally reached balance. Then along comes something to deal with, something that demands our focus, and something that re-orders our priorities. We wonder when we are going to finally reach a peaceful equilibrium and blissful homeostasis. Read the rest of this entry »
By Jeffrey Chernin, Ph.D., MFT
Click here to contact Jeffrey and/or see his GoodTherapy.org Profile
When it comes to unhealthy, ingrained patterns, we often use the term “vicious cycle.” Something causes something else, which leads to a downward slide. It starts when certain actions and perceptions that got you through childhood or early adulthood (coping strategies) remain unchecked and lock you into unhealthy behavior as an adult. The Adaptive Spiral, an idea which developed organically through my psychotherapy practice, is one way to change long-standing patterns that you developed early on as a way to cope with certain situations but became maladaptive. Read the rest of this entry »
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