A bad outcome of a mid-life crisis tosses people into counseling. They report that the person they knew became entirely different over night. It is almost cliché that with a mid-life crisis comes the impractical sports car, the extramarital affair, late nights at bars, new friends who are twenty years younger, hipper clothes or a… (more…)
Do you have a client who pushes away good companions for no real reason? Just when they were getting close, they pull back to the beginning of the relationship refusing to go any deeper. If your client’s behavior is challenged, they react with intense resistance and denial, claiming they are just not in a good enough… (more…)
Spend some time in a nursing home and observe two very general types of elderly people: ones who are still happy and others who are still miserable. Both of their stories have a fair share of life tragedies, health problems, loss of loved ones, wars, disappointments, and successes. Yet one group walks away with a… (more…)
There are two kinds of parents when school starts: one says, “Yay Ho, school has started” and the other says, “Boo Ho, school has started”. Your child’s reaction is almost universal with combination of “Oh no work again” mixed with “Yay I get to see my friends again” and topped off with “Eek what if…” … (more…)
There he was at six years old running to welcome me home with open arms. His warm embrace and excitement over greeting me filled my heart with overwhelming joy. Our son dominated my greeting making sure that my husband did not get close and when he did, he immediately jumped in-between our embrace. He spoke… (more…)
Have you ever found yourself in a small tight space like a storage closet, a closed MRI, or an elevator and out of nowhere you felt like you were going to lose it? Suddenly your breath seems lost, your palms and underarms sweat, your heart races, you feel light-headed and your stomach does flips. The next… (more…)
You have finally realized that you are married to a narcissist. Everyone else around you already knew this and even warned you about him but for some reason you thought it would be different. Maybe you believed that he would change for you and maybe he did before you got married but as soon as you… (more…)
A Bully Narcissist may have you intimidated. A Girly Narcissist may have you feeling bi-polar. A Poker Face Narcissist may have you questioning reality. A Debater Narcissist may have you arguing with yourself. But a Psychotic Narcissist will have you downright fearful with little justification for how or why you are feeling that way. The… (more…)
College towns are hard to get around just on foot because of the distance between classes and dorms, so as a college student, I took up bike riding. One day while riding in the street, granted I was riding in the opposite direction of traffic which is strangely prophetic of my college years, my wheel… (more…)
Just as a wife needs to read what it feels like to be disrespectful to her husband, a man needs to read what it feels like to be unloving to his wife. So if you are a wife reading this, please don’t email this article to your husband and demand he reads it. If you… (more…)
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