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How to Make Goals
Stability and Change
Jealousy and Pride
When You Can’t Get It All Done
When We Do It All at the Same Time
Why Sustained Anger is not a Protector
How Anger Imprisons Us
Emotional Independence
Emotional Independence
How to set a Boundary
Selfishly Helping
Codependency
Focus on You
Healing Others
How to Love Someone and not Their Expectations
Distinguishing You, Your Spouse, and Your Relationship
The Path of Most Resistance
Possibilities
Organizing Thoughts Versus Vomiting Emotions
Logistics Versus Emotions
Value
Self Worth
How Self Expectations Work
How to Measure Your Success
Inadequacy
Changes
Emotional Regulation
Emotional Regulation
How to Manage the Fear of an Emotion
How to Manage Painful Memories of Past Mistakes
Differing Emotional Ranges
Emotions and Memories
How to Tolerate an Emotional Situation
Emotions and Conversations
Anxiety
Anxiety Disorder
Anxiety Basics
Managing Panic Attacks
How to Manage Obsessions and Compulsions
Physical Health and Anxiety
Strong Emotions and Strong Thinking Dont Mix
Social Anxiety
How to Decrease Anxiety
Four Mindsets for Anxiety
Dealing with Unkowns
Depression
Depression Basics
Self Help Tips for Depression
How to Motivate Yourself When Your Depressed
Happiness as a Comparison Emotion
Chronic Fatigue
Accepting Emotional Exhaustion
Relationships
Relationships
Cultivating a Feeling of Gratitude with Your Spouse
Abusive Relationships
Pursue and Withdraw Patterns
How Smothering Works
How To Influence Your Spouse To do Chores
Returning Anger with Love
How to be Valuable to Someone You Love
Focusing on Faults
When the Alleged Victim is a Predator
A Marriage of Survival Verses a Marriage of Love
So you’re getting a divorce………
Communication
How Communication Occurs
Maintaining Equilibrium
The Process of Feedback
What a Lack of Emotional Intimacy is Like
When a Conversation Starts to Go South
Matching and Pacing
Influence
How to Create a Context of Positive Interpretations
Listen, Do You Hear My Soul?
Affair Recovery
Peace after an Affair
How To Decrease Anxiety About Trust
The Affair Journey
Emotional Connection
Taking a Break
Negative Probability
Positive Probability
Criticism
Appreciating Opposing Behavior
Highlighting
Pursuer/Distancer
Problem not People
Compassion
Time
Empathy
Not Assigning Meaning
Generating Love
Parenting Children
Children
Discipline With Absolute Rules
Teach the Child While He is Young
Children Will Respond to the Highest Allowable Threshold
Perfect Consistency, Every Time
Stay Firm in the Rules and Boundaries
Love Your Child
Use Natural Consequences
Solve the Problems, Don’t Pass Blame
Stress is a Motivator
Indirect Stress is a False Motivator
Pick Your Battles
Be United
Show the Way
Match the Consequence to the Child
What you Shed Light on, Grows
Compliments to Criticism Ratio
Tips
The Environmental Effects of Children’s Psychiatric Inpatient Hospitalization Stays
Learning Agility In Children
Parenting Adolescents
Adolescents
Allow Natural Consequences to Take Place
Do Not Do for Adolescents, What They Can Do For Themselves
Allow the Adolescent to Make Age Appropriate Decisions
Allow Adolescents the Ability to Give Input
Be an Example
Do Not Attempt to Parent through Unrighteous Dominion
Strengthen Your Marriage
Teach Intrinsic Values
Show your Love
Be an Active Listener
Instilling Values
Parenting Adult Children
Helping, to Sooth Guilt
The Financial Burdens of Adult Children
When Your Adult Child Disowns You
Positive Reinforcement
Love
Encouragement
Breaking Tasks Into Chunks
Shaping
Token Economy
Satiation
Premack Principle
Differential Reinforcement
Christianity
Christianity
Diligence
We Don't Earn Grace
The Pure Love of Christ
Worrying About the Future
Falling Short in God’s Eyes
Self-Esteem
Laying Down Our Life
Being A Servant
The church of Scrupulosity versus the church of Christ
Supervision
Supervision
How to Open Possibilities
The Impact of Language
Isomorphic Change
Learning Agility
Solution Focused Theory
Clinical Epistemology
Kinetic Family Therapy
Aligning Will and Advice
Understanding
Where Ya Headed?
The Journey
Action
Learning
Return and Report
How to Start a Private Practice
How to be Miserable
How To Be Perfectly Miserable About Your Spouse’s Failures
How to Feel Unloved
How To Heighten Your Emotional Pain
How To Make Your Children Angrier
How To Make Your Spouse’s Parenting Worse
How To Ensure That Your Spouse Fails At Standing Up For You
How To Not Validate Your Spouse
How To Be Discontent
How To Develop Social Anxiety
How To Increase Your Anxiety
Community Assistance
Shelters
Child Care Assistance
Legal Assistance
Medical Assistance
Addiction Assistance
Family Members of Addicts
Free/Low Cost Counseling
Computer/Printing/Internet
Employment for Disabled
How Mental Health Prices are Set
Community Crisis Numbers
Debt Reduction
Inpatient Substance Abuse
Podcast
Books
Body Effects on Mental Health
Neuropeptide Y
Brain-derived neurotrophic growth factor (BDNF)
Anterior Cingulate Cortex
Sympathetic Nervous System
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Differential Reinforcement

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January 15, 2025

So you're getting a divorce .......

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Things to think about when getting a divorce.

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December 31, 2024

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Vomiting emotions isn’t a long term fix.

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October 22, 2024
Self Worth

Our value is innate. We diminish our value but what we measure ourselves with.

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