Search results for "emotional"
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Powerful Unconscious Psychological Forces
Intense Emotional Reactions When an emotional reaction seems incommensurate with the event that occasions it we can be...
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Abandonment And Controlling Behavior
Protecting Against the Dreaded Outcome of Abandonment We have written about how people who were abandoned in childhood...
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The Paradox Of Abandonment
Increasing Intimacy People who were abandoned by primary caregivers in childhood face certain challenges when it comes to...
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Grieving Secondary Losses
Loss Produces Grief Any significant loss will produce grief. Whatever the main object of that grief is can...
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Deciding To Spend More Time In The Here And Now
Regressive and Progressive Forces Battle for Supremacy The two most powerful unconscious forces in human life move in...
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Ambivalence While Grieving
Simultaneous Contradictory Thoughts and Feelings Ambivalence, which is holding simultaneous contradictory thoughts or feelings, is a disconcerting experience...
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As a Helper You Have to Expect Setbacks
Projecting Passion and Energy Onto Clients In our opinion the single biggest cause of burnout for those in...
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The Draw of Being the Victim in a Relationship
Victimhood Implies Innocence At the conscious level none of us want to be victims. Being victimized means getting...
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Anxiety is the Feeling of Helplessness in a Hostile World
A Working Definition for Anxiety As funny as it sounds, most people don’t have a working definition for...
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Breaking a Bad Habit the Buddha Way
A Bad Habit is Like Bait The Buddha uses the image of bait to help us break those...
