by rulamo | Nov 29, 2020 | Couples Therapy, Depression, Grief/ Loss
No feeling is so painful as the pain of the human heart… One client of mine, when asked what it was like to feel shut out and rejected by her partner, used the word “soul-crunching” to describe her pain In fact heartache and heartbreak are often described by...
by rulamo | Nov 29, 2020 | Psychological Issues
We all have personalities, but what does it mean to have a personality “disorder”? What Do We Mean by Personality? A personality is a certain habitual way I deal with the world around me. When you think to yourself “boy, that person sure has a personality!”, what...
by rulamo | Nov 29, 2020 | Therapy
What happens in good therapy is hard to explain to someone who has not yet experienced it. Why is that? Because the person who enters the therapy room often isn’t the person therapy will reveal her to be. Her very goals and definitions of who she is belongs to...
by rulamo | Nov 29, 2020 | Anger Management, Emotion-Focused Therapy
Anger is an uncomfortable emotion for most people. We often wonder what to do with it when we feel it, or want desperately to get rid of it because we associate it with being out-of-control, find it to be destructive, or are afraid it. The Benefits of Anger: Anger...
by rulamo | Nov 29, 2020 | Depression, Guilt
One frequent problem people present with in therapy is: not knowing how to care for themselves emotionally. Many people make their lives all about caring for others, and not enough about caring for themselves. They might make statements such as: “My husband doesn’t...
