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Tips for Coping with Coronavirus Stress

…o lead researcher Dr. Kristin Neff. When we’re alone or afraid, a critical voice in our head can start to take over, critiquing our actions and exacerbating our fears. Practicing self-compassion not only gives us a break from beating ourselves up, but it allows us to feel connected to others through a shared human experience. Here’s what it comprises: Self-kindness rather than self-judgment Mindfulness rather than over-identification with thoughts…

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Living while dying – Notes from the resistance

…ates the world in a motorized chair. He can no longer speak in his natural voice, so he communicates through a voice box. He no longer breathes on his own. Yet in his disability, his humanity is more present than ever. When he talks to these politicians, they are forced to confront their own mortality as well. Anything less than a personal human response was almost painful to watch, and it underscored the incredible power of Ady Barkan’s signature…

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The Loss of Pleasure: Attachment Relationship and Loss: A Conversation with Carol Gilligan

…can hear this loss in the shift from a relational voice to the patriarchal voices of selfless femininity and detached masculinity. Dr. Carol Gilligan’s theory suggests that listening and providing resonance for the pre-patriarchal human voice is key to psychological and political health – a requisite for love and relationships. In this Webinar, she explores in what ways psychoanalysis, both theoretically and clinically, can provide resonance for h…

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Helping Children Thrive: How I Spoke Up for One Little Girl

…tions are sometimes known by other names like GAL (for Guardian ad Litem), Voices for Children, or Child Advocates. In all these places, CASA volunteers are making significant differences in the lives of the children they advocate for. National studies show that children who have CASA or GAL volunteers spend less time in foster care – an average of eight months less than kids who don’t have advocates. They are more likely to be adopted and half as…

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When Life Becomes a Death Sentence

…staccato laugh, recall his smile and remember the tone and cadence of his voice, but I cannot touch him, squeeze his shoulders or even give him a friendly jab on the arm. I cannot ask him or ever know the answer to what propelled him off a ladder into another realm—one that I am not part of and have no access to. Our lives are composed of stories. Some we tell ourselves, and other people add to the narrative. In the wake of my brother’s suicide,…

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The Ethics of Interpersonal Relationships

…aggressiveness in defending the fantasy bond and learning to cope with the voice process have strong implications for child-rearing and better mental health practices. Identifying destructive behaviors and faulty programming in family life and society, developing insight into the relationship between defenses and aggressive responses, and offering a method to counteract destructive trends constitute a challenge to what many people consider to be h…

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Dear Voices…………Goodbye.

…to fear success, And believe I’ve failed, having done my best. Sometimes I voice my protest, At what you say to me, But you’re always there to lead me back where you need me to be. Confused, lost, and broken, as if I’m not really there, A torturous re-education, from you, the voices; The ones who really care. How can you care about me? You bring so much despair, When I feel good you bring me down, Not caring, just, unfair. I’m tired of all the sad…

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What Goes On in the Mind of Your Therapist?

…unique glimpse into the mind of the therapist, Overcoming the Destructive Inner Voice. In it, he tells true stories of working with patients in therapy and their process of transformation. In his introduction, he wrote, “Psychotherapy represents a powerful personal interaction and a unique human relationship in which a trained person attempts to render assistance to another person by both suspending and extending him-or herself.” The goal of the…

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Coping with the Economic Crisis: Story from a PsychAlive Member

…re the burden of this painful reality, it is essential not to indulge in a critical voice inside that tells us that we ourselves have lost any value. The human spirit is the one commodity that does not decline in worth. We can grow richer, and by growing richer, succeed on a level we may never have had we not known this struggle. Only with this mentality can we lift ourselves, and one another, out of this crisis and maybe even come out a little ta…

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Why Going Back Home Can Leave Us Feeling Lost

…and laid back people with little to say in the way of anything negative or critical. Yet several times during the visit, he noticed my friend’s voice take on an uncharacteristically high-pitched tone, as she’d defensively react to what seemed to him rather innocent comments from her parents. When he mentioned this observation on the drive home, my friend was puzzled by how much his impression and the things he recounted her saying sounded like her…

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