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Negative Parentlng of Infants and Toddlers Increases Aggression
Results of a new research study of more than 260 mothers and their children, followed from birth until first grade, were published by University of Minnesota this week. Before the study, researchers...
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Overcoming Fears and Building Emotional Intelligence
“Fears are educated into us, and can, if we wish, be educated out.” -Karl Menninger If we want to overcome our fears, and most of do, we must first be willing to examine them. Just cultivating...
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How to Master Worry and Anxiety
We recommend a number of different books for our clients who suffer from fear and anxiety. One of our favorites is called The Anxiety and Phobia Workbook by Edmund J. Bourne, now in its fifth edition....
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Depressed Dads Need Help to Help Their Kids
For many years, the medical community has known that when moms are depressed, it puts their children at risk for more emotional and behavioral problems but until recently, the impact of fathers’...
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Happy Families Have Feelings Too…
“Feelings are what connect us to life and to one another. To be able to feel is one of the extraordinary gifts of humanity. To neither suppress our feelings nor be caught by them but to withstand them,...
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Emotional Self-Healing for Couples and Families
“Feelings like disappointment, embarrassment, irritation, resentment, anger, jealousy, and fear, instead of being bad news, are actually very clear moments that teach us where it is that we’re holding...
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News on Couples and Empathy: Reader Beware
“When someone really hears you without passing judgment on you, without taking responsibility for you, without trying to mold you, it feels damn good. When I have been listened to, when I have been...
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Look Out, Parents! The Kids are Catching Your Emotions
Susan and Larry called our counseling clinic to get help dealing with the problems of their seven year-old son, Billy. Billy was falling behind in school, having trouble paying attention in class,...
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Joy=Love–Fear and Other Emotional Equations for Happiness
“Everything can be taken from a man or a woman but one thing: the last of human freedoms is to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.”– Dr. Viktor Frankl...
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Making Peace with Painful Memories
“The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It’s the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.” -Lois Lowry, author of The Giver I am writing today inspired by this week’s celebration...
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