Spiritual/Existential

Boredom

October 12, 2010
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Psychologist Rollo May (1909-1994) wrote quite a bit on the issues of our existence as human beings, especially subjects such as anxiety and emptiness. In his book Man’s Search for Himself, he calls the 20th century the “age of emptiness”. Before the age of emptiness the focus was more on making a name for one’s [...]

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Cultivating Being

September 14, 2010

People come to counseling for all sorts of reasons. Everyone brings with them different goals, expectations, hopes, and desired outcomes. For many people counseling is helpful and for some it is not. Some people might not even know why it was helpful, but feel that just talking to someone, going somewhere to spend an hour [...]

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We’re All Addicts

August 31, 2010

I believe a major problem in how the general public, as well as some professionals, sees addiction is that it is too narrowly defined. When we say the word “addiction” most people just think of an alcoholic or drug addict. Some might think about sex addiction or gambling, but overall we tend to only think [...]

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Rejuvenation

August 10, 2010

Along the lines of the title of my column, Antidotes to Emptiness, I wanted to write about one way to bring fullness to our lives. Rejuvenation. What do you do to rejuvenate? What does that word even mean? Rejuvenate: to make someone or something look or feel younger, fresher or more lively. I did not [...]

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Get Out of Your Way

June 18, 2010

Who is in your way? What is in your way? Are you looking for more freedom in your life? What might that look like if you could wave a magic wand? What is your vision of health, and freedom, and vitality? Again, who or what is in your way? I would pose the answer that [...]

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Inner Peace

June 8, 2010

Peace is found, not through repressing experience, but through acceptance of whatever comes up. (Thomas Bien in his book Mindful Therapy). Most of us struggle with this concept. You might be thinking, “why would I want to accept the negative and painful feelings that come up?” Accepting and validating our own internal experience is the [...]

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