Category: helping
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Empowering or Enabling?
How do we know when we’re enabling a loved one – feeding their unhealthy habits rather than empowering them toward greater confidence and autonomy? Mindfulness of the intentions behind our actions and their consequences can help.
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Getting Unstuck
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One of the trickiest aspects of a psychologist’s job is to help motivate clients to do things they are reluctant to do, but may help them feel better. Common mental health problems like depression and anxiety involve a biased or stereotyped pattern of thinking and behaving which maintains or exacerbates the condition. These patterns keep…
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A Path Toward Happiness: Help Others, Help Yourself
Researchers have found that one of the key elements of happiness is altruism or kindness to others. It turns out that most human beings get a boost from helping others and doing good things for the world. I have often suggested volunteering as a therapeutic tool for improving mental health; especially with conditions like depression,…