Tag: perspective
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Growing a Marriage: Deepening the Emotional Conversation, part 2
“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.” Rumi In this article we will look at how to work with the negativity that arises within us through conversations with our partner in marriage. In the previous post, part…
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Body Image Issues: How to Live in Our Own Skin
Body image issues are inherent in our culture. Women, as well as men, are healing this problem by waking up to what it is and how it operates insidiously within our culture and within individuals. Body image definition: ‘Body image refers to how people see themselves. Distorted body image (also called negative body image) refers to…
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A Brief Overview of Gestalt Therapy
There are many schools of psychology. We hear a new spin on therapy, psychology and spirituality on a regular basis. Some of these ideas for healing body, mind and spirit are ancient, others are specific to the needs of our present cultural situation. We find many of these psychological theorists appeared in the western world…
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Understanding Depression, An Aerial Perspective
Depression is an individual problem that is linked to a cultural problem. A cultural problem because anti-depressant medications are the third most prescribed drug in the United States. http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/drug-use-therapeutic.htm That indicates to me a type of epidemic. To make it even worse, the depressive disorder is an epidemic that has become a normalized state…
