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The Power of Scent: Aromatherapy and Psychotherapy
March 17, 2011 .
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Scents, Memories, and Emotions The use of pleasant aromas to enhance well-being dates back thousands of years. Fragrant oils were ceremonially used in the Far East, as well as in ancient ... Read More
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Common Therapy Approaches to Help You Heal from Trauma
March 9, 2011 .
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Learning about the stages of healing can be distressing, motivating, upsetting, or uplifting. No matter how you feel, your reaction is not wrong. Acknowledging your emotional response to ... Read More
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Jung & Play: Re-writing Your Myth
February 18, 2011 .
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Without playing with fantasy, no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of imagination if incalculable. -C.G. Jung Jung wrote about the need for finding ... Read More
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Art Therapy: Invoking Images to Heal Trauma
February 11, 2011 .
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Full permission has been given by the client to tell this story on GoodTherapy.org. All identifying information has been changed. Images hold keys that unlock our inner experiences. Images ... Read More
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When Children Say, “I Don’t Like You”…
February 3, 2011 .
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Hearing “I don’t like you!” from your child can hurt, but don’t believe that they really don’t like you. Kids, as young as 2, learn to say “No;” they have ... Read More
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The Two Pillars of Mindfulness-Based Therapy
January 31, 2011 .
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Mindfulness-based therapy is an approach in which the principles of mindfulness are applied for therapeutic purposes. What does this mean? My previous article discussed basic elements ... Read More
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Empathy in Physical and Mental Health Care January 29, 2011 . 15 Comments
Sometimes small things make the biggest difference. One place this applies is in the doctor’s office. New research published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal (CMAJ) finds that ... Read More
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Experiencing the Contrast of Life January 7, 2011 . 3 Comments
We are in the midst of January. One way to combat the cabin fever of winter and the shorter daylight hours for those across the northern hemisphere is to turn to creative processes. In ... Read More
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Therapeutic Play: A Tool in Nurturing Attachment
December 6, 2010 .
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During therapeutic play with children, therapists watch, listen, and interact during moments when a child may be giving voice to images, emotion, and story. “Image” implies an object ... Read More
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Exploring the Psychology of Anger and Motivation November 5, 2010 . 14 Comments
A new study published in Psychological Science links anger to increased motivation for reward, a feature that some might associate with more positive emotions. Interestingly, this study ... Read More
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Fibromyalgia is Linked to Childhood Stress and Unprocessed Negative Emotions October 29, 2010 . 9 Comments
Starting the day with fibromyalgia pain made Vera angry Fibromyalgia made it hard for 46 year old Vera to get her legs out of bed in the morning. As she moved toward the bathroom and began ... Read More
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Part I: Voice Dialogue and Healing the Inner Scapegoat – A Transpersonal Perspective October 29, 2010 . 6 Comments
“For years it lay in an iron box buried so deep inside me that I was never sure just what it was. I knew it carried slippery, combustible things more secret than sex and more dangerous ... Read More
