Holiday Stress and Peace
The holiday season is here again and we are once again full of the yearly hustle and bustle of the season. Shopping for the perfect gift, visiting with family [...]
Gratitude
Russell Rainey, MS, LPCWarning: This will be the same recycled article that you have always read this time of year! Each year, around the first week in November [...]
Unique Intensive Workshops
Caroline Smith, MA, LPC, LSACA personal past. Everyone has one. And sometimes they are not very great. A family past. All families have one. And sometimes [...]
Challenges of Going Back to School
Patricia Calabrese, PMH-NP Oh, it’s that time again! A time when some kids are unhappy to go back to the structure of a classroom, but parents can be thrilled [...]
Taming Your Temper
Ted Crawford, Clinical Therapist Anger is useful in situations where we need more energy to protect and assert ourselves. However, the intensity of anger often leads to regretful behavior. [...]
Anger
Ted Crawford, Clinical Therapist Anger problems are nothing new, but their prevalence seems to be swelling; no doubt a symptom of life’s increasing complexity, among other things. Anger that isn’t [...]
When the Last Child Leaves Home: The Empty Nest Experience
By Kathy Coffman, MS, LPC, NCC In describing the transition into the inevitable empty nest lifestyle, I think of the famous Charles Dickens quote from A Tale of Two [...]
Codependency
Ted Crawford, Clinical Therapist For each person struggling with addiction, there are several people connected to him/her who are struggling with the emotional chaos that ripples from it. The [...]
What Is Addiction, Really?
Ted Crawford, Clinical Therapist “Addiction” is a term that gets thrown around all the time but few really know what it actually is. Let’s see if we can gain [...]
How to be neurotic and miserable
Ted Crawford, Clinical Therapist We are not suffering from a shortage of “self-help gurus”. In fact, we may be suffering from “guru-overload”. Some, like wiggling dogs scratching for an “open door”, [...]
Recovery and the Holidays
How does one stay in recovery through the holidays? Holidays are a time of celebrations with family, friends, and business associates. All with their unwritten expectations: family traditions, peer [...]
The Gift of Change
Caroline Smith, MA, LPC, LSAC Families often change when the pain of staying the same is greater than the pain of change. Hurt and anger are two [...]
