by Rachel | Sep 11, 2017 | Anxiety and Phobias, Depression and Grief, Emotions, Family and Friends, Personal Change, Relationships, Self-awareness, Self-Confidence
Let’s talk about how beliefs affect our coping strategies in life and, in turn, accidentally keep us stuck. Take John for example. John is 45 years old. Growing up, he developed the idea (called a negative core belief or a schema) that he is “unlikeable”. Here...
by Rachel | May 10, 2017 | Uncategorized
Therapy: What Are You Paying For? (Guest Blog from Martha Crawford) Every few years, I encounter a certain kind of wounded, fearful client who – in order to wiggle out of any vulnerability – attempts to hang onto their sense of power or privilege by insisting that the...
by Rachel | Feb 1, 2017 | Anger Management, Compassion, Conflict, Emotions, News
This is a guest blog by a good friend of NBP, psychologist Karen Nixon. We hope it helps. Yesterday I read how affected some of my Facebook friends are at what Trump is doing. I felt very disturbed, spending the day on the Internet reading the news and a lot of...
by Rachel | Aug 19, 2016 | Compassion, Emotions, Personal Change, Relationships
“I was recently involved with a narcissistic man who was completely unable to empathize/care or even think about my feelings and needs. Sometimes I would have to explain how his behavior was affecting me and he would eventually acknowledge he could see how I might...
by Rachel | Sep 20, 2015 | Anxiety and Phobias, Emotions, Self-awareness
Humans: Maybe we have become too smart (or stupid) for our own good! Some theorists say that at some point in our evolution, our consciousness advanced to the stage where we confused the contents of our consciousness (thoughts, perceptions, feelings, sensations) for...
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