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Monthly Archives: May 2013
Memorial Day
To those who’ve been so generous as to follow me, I apologize for being offline due to technical problems, as well as, quite frankly, having taken the holiday weekend COMPLETELY off, which I recommend for mental health reasons to anyone. … Continue reading
Posted in choices, Uncategorized
Tagged American Civil War, Civil War, Confederate, Decoration Day, healing, Memorial Day, reconciliation, Union, United States
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Might as Well Screw Up
I remember back when John Bradshaw was all the rage– Healing the Shame that Binds You, and so on. He got to be one of those speakers that they put on Public TV during pledge. One of the things that … Continue reading
Posted in behavioral health, choices, mindfulness
Tagged Creativity, Destination Imagination, Imagination, John Bradshaw, Mindfulness, mistakes, Psychology
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Happy, Shmappy
I just read a guy’s post from LinkedIn, where he quoted a lot of the research on happiness. The results are much as you’ve heard in folk sayings– wake up and smell the coffee, stop and smell the roses, happiness … Continue reading
Posted in behavioral health, happiness, mental health, Recovery
Tagged Altered state of consciousness, Happiness, Happy ending
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Smile– with your eyes
I was at a training not long ago, and the trainer told a tangential story. When he was in graduate school for psychology, he and a few of his fellow students decided to do a little behaviorist prank. It wasn’t … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged behaviorism, Blink, Human, Humour, interpersonal influence, Malcolm Gladwell, Smile, Social Sciences
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The most sophisticated defense
It is said that humor is the most sophisticated defense. I would also like to suggest that we use the term coping mechanism rather than defense. I think we can link it to a lot of other things, but the … Continue reading
Posted in behavioral health, Recovery
Tagged cognitive therapy, Coping (psychology), humor, smiles
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Recovery Choices
In the last post, I gave my burning building scenario of choice, which applies to lots of situations in life. All choices basically boil down to one of three kinds: 1) choices among possible good outcomes– do I want my … Continue reading
Posted in choices, Recovery
Tagged Addiction, Alcoholic Anonymous, Alcoholism, Stephanie Brown, Substance Abuse, Twelve-Step Program
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House on fire choices
There’s good news, and there’s bad news…. The good news is, we get to choose, no matter what. The bad news is, we have to choose, no matter what. In a previous post I related the phenomenon of really clear … Continue reading
Posted in behavioral health, choices, existentialism
Tagged Alternative, being a victim, Choice, not being a victim, recovery
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