Category: relationships
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Men and Emotions
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Emotions are important to optimal life functioning, but due to conditioning and socialization, many men in our society tend to be at a disadvantage when it comes to recognizing, understanding and managing them. This is largely due to the way we have historically raised and treated boys in US culture. Fortunately, it is possible increase one’s understanding of…
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Compulsive Lying
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Why do some people lie over and over again, sometimes even about seemingly inconsequential things? It can be quite frustrating and damaging, both to the recipient of the lies and to the person doing the lying. A good assessment may be needed first to rule out substance abuse or other compulsive behaviors as well as…
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What Does “Too Nice” Mean?
Is it possible to be nice to a fault? When asked directly, most people will say niceness is a strength; however, if being “too nice” has ever been someone’s reason for rejecting you, niceness can feel more like a curse than a blessing. Are you really “too nice” or are you mistaking niceness for kindness?…
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Effective Parenting
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Positive parenting is a way to set expectations, instill values and live together as a family in relative peace while maintaining a resilient and satisfying relationship with your child. An essential part of a positive parenting is developing a strong foundation of trust, love and respect. It will be difficult to interact with your child…
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Recipe for Happiness?
Psychologists have been taking a growing interest in measuring happiness over the last decade. In retrospect, this seems to be a no brainer, but it is a fairly new approach for professionals who were historically more accustomed to focusing on life’s problems in order to help people thrive. Happiness is a subjective emotion involving sensations…
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Active Listening: The Perfect Gift
Looking for the perfect gift for someone special? Why not consider a gift that is precious and rare, appropriate for and appreciated by most people of any culture, gender or age, shows you really care, and is absolutely FREE? Active listening is that sort of gift. Active listening is the type of listening in which…
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Love Relationships
Love is one of life’s greatest rewards. But, like many good things, there is both a sweet side and a sour side to it. Serious or chronic illness, infidelity, intimacy concerns, changing roles and circumstances, anger, finances, parenting, communication problems all can contribute to distress in marriages or other partnerships. We start out at a…
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Selflessness
Our society values and encourages selflessness. We think about self-sacrifice and putting others before ourselves as virtuous qualities. To be selfless means, “having no regard to self”. Although we may choose to act selflessly at times (which can be a wonderful thing), we cannot completely disregard ourselves. Remember the Zen-Buddhist saying, “Wherever you go, there…