As the therapist’s partner in the therapeutic act of recovery, it is also your responsibility to make the process both safe and fulfilling. Recovery is fueled by a strong determination to recover from pain: childhood pain, relationship pain, habitual bad choices pain, addiction pain, loneliness pain, and anxiety pain. Recovery work benefits from a safe […]
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Are You an Over-giver? – Angela Capretti, LMHC
Balance can be very important to consider in romantic relationships as well as in most areas of life. I have worked with many individuals and couples who were experiencing distress resulting from dynamics they created that were lacking balance. Several of these cases involved “over-givers“. An example of an over-giver is someone who focuses too […]
Process Emotions Better Now – Angie Capretti
There are two common errors when processing emotions. Error One: the experience of negative or painful emotion triggers a lower level or maladaptive defense mechanism that shuts down the processing and bottles, or represses the emotion. This can take the form of invulnerability, denial, distraction, withdrawal, avoidance, escape into fantasy, numbing oneself, cutting off emotionally […]
Increasing Your Self-Awareness – Angie Capretti
Increasing your self-awareness can help you to understand what is going on in your head and why. Self-awareness can also help you to experience emotions and feelings in a more productive way. This can result in a change in the way you respond emotionally and behave. Self-awareness can shift you out of self-victimization, help you […]
The Immutable Law of Love and Marriage
How is that for promising the goods? In this short blog I’m promising to deliver life changing realization of the very essence, meaning and purpose of the massively vital topic of romantic love. That’s some serious trash talk! I saw a poster once about the most important ten things you need to build a successful […]
The Secret Mind Blowing Actual Purpose of Marriage
I was invited to another wonderful wedding recently. My handsome young nephew had a smile that could have lit up the universe as his gorgeous blond bride was making her way down the aisle to join him in the bonds of matrimony. He was marrying the woman of his dreams and it was all good. […]
You Will Need Help For Out of Control Jealousy Reactions
I was reminded again this week that the most difficult issue that a therapist can face in his or her office is intense jealous reactions or what we call ‘Abandonment Issues’. I had two intense and out of control abandonment related crises banging around my office this week. Abandonment issues are the King Kong gorilla […]
Marital Nightmares
Bad things can happen when you least expect them to. I had one such unexpected, moderately nightmarish experience last Sunday. While tooling home on my Harley a young man inched out into my lane. When I slammed on my brakes my bike kept going but I hit the pavement with a very sickening and painful […]