Happy Anniversary! What?! You forgot?! Yep. This internet version of Lucy’s psychiatric advice booth has been up for two years. It’s been two very fine years and all of my thanks go to you, our ever-growing digital dysfunctional family.* Last year I spent a few articles giving this website a colonoscopy and inviting others to [Continue]
“Surrender: to give oneself up into the power of another…or to give oneself over to something (as an influence).” -Miriam Webster’s Dictionary I mentioned the concept of surrender in last month’s article on my decision to sign into a weight loss center. I began to chew on that concept, and re-realized how important to [Continue]
The words, innocuous—even inviting—leapt off the page and hit me like a viper’s nest in the face. “Meet the Treatment Team,” it read. The paper had been photocopied so many times that the edges of letters were worn and blurred, like windblown hieroglyphics. They set off a Bobby Brady firework explosion in my [Continue]
“Think of a Paradigm Shift as a change from one way of thinking to another. It’s a revolution, a transformation, a sort of metamorphosis. It just does not happen, but rather it is driven by agents of change.” -TakeTheLeap.com In therapy one of the hardest things to do is help someone shake out of [Continue]
“Money is a major source of stress on people, and what tax season does is shine a great big spotlight on the issue.” -Michael McKee, Clinic psychologist, president of U.S. International Stress Management Association I’m not even going to say what time of year it is. You know. I know. He, she or it knows. [Continue]
He was able to deliver four hammering punches to his unsuspecting peer before I could get between them and escort him back to the staff office. We had been discussing his unwillingness to curb his unruly behavior right before he methodically walked out of the office into the community and silently began his [Continue]
“When my work space, or my living space, is cluttered, my mind is cluttered. There is no room for creativity, for moving forward…. and it feels so HEAVY! When I get it all organized I am liberated, I feel light, and anything is possible.” -Anonymous Organization Convert Man, check out that spot! A White board [Continue]
Chuck Wendig is a man of many talents and a one prolific, profane, and prodigious penmonkey.Last week’s Seven Act Flash Fiction Friday Challenge proved to be the framework on which I hung an idea that I’ve had for some time. While more cute than chaotic, all should fear this horrific attack on America… Wrong Numbers [Continue]
It’s been two weeks and there hasn’t been profound interest in The Operation Habit Challenge despite the chance to try something life changing, and the motivation of a prize. That’s not too surprising, since I firmly believe that change is on a continuum and if you’re not at the point where you want to change [Continue]
I sat in the green plastic chair and tried not to think about the amount of weight that the scale just told me I had gained. Then the Weight Watchers group leader said “They say it takes 32 repetitions of a behavior to build a habit—I don’t know if it’s true, but that’s what they [Continue]
