How to Increase Dopamine
The Best Ways to Increase Dopamine If something has ever made you smile, then you’ve experienced dopamine. Dopamine is a chemical made by your...
Read MoreThe Importance of Practicing Self Love
Experiencing a Lack of Self Love Let’s try a thought experiment to illustrate a point concerning the way we treat our bodies. We’ll...
Read MoreTransactional Analysis: The Games People Play
A Quick History Count up the number of therapeutic modalities currently used in psychotherapy worldwide and they probably number in the hundreds. The psychiatrist...
Read MoreBorderline Personality Disorder Stories
Borderline Personality Disorder and Mythology You may never see it coming. The defenses can be aggressive, frigid, fiery, slithering, and destabilizing. Borderline personality...
Read MoreWhat is Respect?
Weekly Theme: What is Respect? Growing up we learned that respect is saying please and thank you, making eye contact when shaking hands, or...
Read MoreImprovisation: Flexibility and Creativity for Mental Wellness
Improving Mental Wellness with Improvisation What is improvisation, anyway? Google a definition and you’ll get “the act of improvising” - helpful, isn’t it? Let’s...
Read MoreReturning to the Present
Sometimes you hear a pull to return Like a fish out of water hears the waves Or a falcon hears the wind “Come back,...
Read MoreFamily and Accountability
The Value of Family Family – a word that can carry such pain and yearning yet also warmth and purpose. Barn Life practices the...
Read MoreWhat is Self-Love?
Self-Love is a Basic Human Necessity What are basic human necessities? Some include food, water, air, and shelter. These things we quite literally cannot...
Read MoreThe Power of Forgiveness
Forgiveness: The Ultimate Symbol of Strength Those of us in recovery who have spent some time among the twelve-step community know that...
Read MoreCrisis is Choice
The Turning Point Within Have you ever been in a situation faced with an important challenge that felt insurmountable by your usual methods of...
Read MorePsychosis and Schizophrenia
What is Psychosis? Psychosis is sensory perceptions and abnormal thinking experienced by an individual struggling with a schizophrenia spectrum or other psychotic-based disorder. Reminder!...
Read MoreThe Nature of Depression
Changing Perspective on Depression For some, “depression” is a scary word that carries a connotation of weakness and shame. For others, it’s a...
Read MoreIntroduction to Dream Work
Personal and Reflective of the Collective Unconscious Freud and Jung both played a significant role in the deep psychological emphasis on the...
Read MoreTypology: Archetypal Insight and Interpersonal Understanding
Opening the Darkened Caverns In Integrity In Depth, Jungian Analyst and Typology Specialist John Beebe suggests that therapy engages typological functions of both the...
Read MoreShadow and Vulnerability
It goes without saying that this year presents a difficult task for all of us. We all have questions about our place in this...
Read MoreShadows and Halloween
Our Celebration of the Macabre “To confront a person with his Shadow is to show him his own light…anyone who perceives his Shadow and...
Read MoreThe Great Momism of Psychotherapy
One of the greatest disparities of our modern day is the supremely undifferentiated nature of feminine archetypes. By feminine, I, of course, do not...
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