All posts tagged "change"
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Michael Schreiner | July 6, 2015
Insight And Change
If you’re trying to speak a foreign language on a consistent basis, even if you have a willing...
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Michael Schreiner | June 29, 2015
Coping With Upcoming Life Transitions
The prospect of moving from the familiar to the unfamiliar, which is what all life transitions entail, produces...
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Michael Schreiner | May 28, 2015
Minimization Of Problems
When people complain about a problem area in their lives it’s tempting to try to help them by...
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Michael Schreiner | April 1, 2015
Helping Clients Change With Motivational Interviewing
When trying to help clients change maladaptive, entrenched patterns of behavior counselors might be using intelligible words but...
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Michael Schreiner | March 31, 2015
Sometimes Change Is So Slow That It Is Hard To See
When aunts and uncles visit nieces and nephews they haven’t seen for some time they’re likely to exclaim...
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Michael Schreiner | March 30, 2015
Believing Someone Can Change Versus Trying To Make Them Change
More therapists should take heed of the classic idiom “You can lead a horse to water but you...
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Michael Schreiner | February 27, 2015
Milestones
When you think about it milestones of all kinds are arbitrary, their import lies not in the factual...
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Michael Schreiner | January 16, 2015
Small Changes For Some Are Big Changes For Others
It’s narcissism, plain and simple, that makes people place a lower or higher estimation on the difficulty of...
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Michael Schreiner | January 15, 2015
Existential Freedom
Until you accept that the person most responsible for holding you back is you, you’ll probably stay stuck...
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Michael Schreiner | January 6, 2015
Keep Hanging On And Things Will Change
Suicide is, at bottom, a strategy to change an unwanted situation that feels unchangeable. It was Rollo May...