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Dealing With Cognitive Distortions In Anxious Times
November 6, 2020Anxious times. – The very human tendency to engage in mental chatter doesn’t help. One tiny thought gets a little sunlight and it’s off to the races with all manner of distorted thinking, like kudzu on fertile ground. – One of the real gifts of spending more than 35 years working with folks who journey …
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The Role of Insight In Transformation
October 30, 2020Insight plays an important role in most psychotherapy. I am pretty solid in my belief that the most useful #Insights are the ones that arise following integration. – Insight does not produce change. Insight follows the neutralization of charged energy. The imposition of insight when there is still charge does little except produce more charge, generally in …
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Playing A Game With Catastrophic Thinking
October 23, 2020Most people engage in self-limiting cognitive activity in one form or another, to one degree or another. – Catastrophic thinking is a kind of self-limiting cognitive activity. It distorts our experience and perspective. And for those who journey with a mood disorder, this is no small thing. – Catastrophic thinking is like worry on steroids, …
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Clinical Spotlight: Logan Mahan, L.M.S.W.
October 16, 2020Tell us about what’s lighting you up about who you serve. Since transitioning out of residential treatment and into a private practice setting this year, I’ve loved the ability to work more intentionally with men, specifically gay men and other sexual minority men. These men come to me often carrying the burden of heavy injunctions …
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Navigating psycho-emotional rapids with AAIT
October 10, 2020Learning to paddle an oar boat on the Colorado River was one of the funnest and most challenging things I ever did. I spent many summers in high school in a canoe, but a big oar boat in big water, that was new territory. – Sometimes, working with a client can feel like we are …
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