Business or Hobby

As a Business Owner or Senior Manager you effectively deal with this dilemma on two fronts. First of all you must stop “driving behavior” (doing more of what isn’t working) and change behavior through knowledge, skills, and training. Secondly you must deal with current attitudes. Your attitude drives...

Recognizing Signs of Violence

Warning Signs Often people who act violently have trouble controlling their feelings. They may have been hurt by others. Some think that making people fear them through violence or threats of violence will solve their problems or earn them respect. This isn’t true. People who behave violently lose...

Moving in Together Stirs up Old Fears

If you’re divorced and have moved on to a new, meaningful relationship, the prospect of moving in together can stir up a lot of fear related to your past marriage and its demise.  Anyone who has gone through a divorce will tell you that it takes some time to get over it and move on (understatement of the...

What If I Can’t Be Hypnotyzed?

I get phone calls from people looking for help to feel better.  Often the people who call want to know about hypnosis, and many times they have misconceptions about it, and those misconceptions seem to be pretty common. Last week a gentleman called looking for a therapist for his wife who has IBS –...

Confronting Child Sexual Abuse

Child sexual abuse is a significant problem in our society. Many studies have estimated that an alarming 12 to 25% of girls and 8 to 10% of boys experience some form of sexual abuse prior to the age of 18 years. Other studies have suggested that these figures may even be an underestimate and that as many as...

Adult Children of Alcoholics

Has alcohol been an important influence in your family’s life? You maybe aware that there were alcohol problems in your family when you were growing up. However, you may not appreciate ways in which those problems continue to affect you, even as an adult. Consider the following...