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Michael Schreiner | October 14, 2016The Toll Of Being Compared
A common phenomenon in family systems is that certain members end up having their personality traits and behaviors...
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Michael Schreiner | October 14, 2016Increased Awareness And Impatience
In a motivational interviewing paradigm the stages for any significant life changes are pre-contemplation, contemplation, preparation, action, and...
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Michael Schreiner | October 12, 2016Feeling Lazy
There are few assigned personality traits as reviled as laziness in our society. This probably has to do...
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Michael Schreiner | October 7, 2016Peer Pressure And Low Self-Esteem
The lower the self-esteem the higher the susceptibility to peer pressure. This is because when self-esteem is low...
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Michael Schreiner | October 6, 2016Couples Who Play Together Stay Together
Early on in the life of most romantic relationships playful banter plays the lead role. The name of...
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Michael Schreiner | October 6, 2016Cultural Watchdog
Anyone who thinks in terms of well-adjusted or maladjusted is an unwitting cultural watchdog, a sort of unofficial...
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Michael Schreiner | October 2, 2016The Tyranny Of The Shoulds
Shoulds are the inflexible, authoritarian, joyless rules for thinking, feeling, and behaving that people subject themselves to at...
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Michael Schreiner | October 1, 2016Do Not Punish Your Partner
By punishing your partner we mean enacting all those conscious and sometimes unconscious changes in typical patterns of...
