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Bullying and Beyond: How to Stop Violent Behavior

…ow what to do when someone does become violent. Standing up to violence is critical to breaking the pattern and preventing future outbursts. If someone is threatening you with violence, it is important to remain calm and confident in the face of fear. Take a deep breath and stand up tall, maintain eye-contact and speak with a calm and assertive voice. Do not engage in any argument and avoid making threats, using provocative language and name-calli…

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Why You Keep Winding Up in the Same Relationship

…rol. Her husband felt victimized by her demanding patterns, but refused to voice his opinions. Even when we choose partners who complement us positively, we run the risk of eventually distorting them or provoking them to become someone who we are less compatible with. This is often not the case when we first get involved with someone. In the beginning of a relationship, we naturally step out of our comfort zones, forcing ourselves outside our own…

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It Is Immoral To Stop People From Loving You

…es and I have developed a powerful therapy technique, which we refer to as Voice Therapy, to identify and challenge negative or unethical behavior in interpersonal relationships. The procedures identify the source of most personal problems by revealing a partially conscious system of self critical and hostile attitudes that people harbor towards themselves and others. In this therapy, clients learn to recognize their negative internal dialogue, an…

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How to Begin Again: From Wounds to Wisdom

…le to prepare myself immediately prior to speaking, as I normally do. with voice and body exercises. In the end, my talk was slow and broken as I checked my notes to find my way, and I took twice as long as I should have. My perception was that I had failed. And my failing was not in the quiet of my personal life, but right there in front of an audience, witnessed by colleagues. Though I had received positive comments after the talk, my expectatio…

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Making Sense of Your Life to Empower Your Future

…s and techniques one can use to write a coherent narrative and create more inner security. These include methods for accessing any unresolved traumas, big or small, and making sense of them, so they don’t haunt you or replay in your adult life. Research has demonstrated that it is unresolved trauma the causes problems in our parenting and in our relationships with those closest to us. I became increasingly fascinated by the method of creating a co…

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How Mindfulness Can Save Your Relationship

…ar with our mind. Ultimately, it allows us to recognize the many “critical inner voices” that, without us even knowing it, we would typically allow to rule our lives. As we get to know these “voices,” we can start to act against them, not permitting them to color our perceptions of ourselves or our partner. When we know ourselves, we become stronger in our relationships. As mindfulness expert Dr. Jon Kabat-Zinn notes, mindfulness is about paying a…

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What It’s Like To Live With Mental Disorder

…depression. It’s called depression with psychotic tendencies. It’s not my inner self that is talking to me either. There’s three different voices and one of them wants me dead. I can’t tell people this or talk about it because it freaks people out and some people that I do tell assume I’m some dangerous person and run the other direction.” — Jennifer L. I’M NOT STRONG LIKE YOU “My sadness — out of fear that others will judge me because of how min…

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4 Home Remedies for Being More Relaxed

…ant. 2. Drink Green Tea Drinking green tea is another great way to achieve inner peace and wind down. Green tea contains an amino acid called L-theanine, which is a derivative of glutamate, a type of amino acid. The reason why this particular type of tea works so well is that theanine has been proven to be an anti-stress chemical as effective as anti-anxiety pharmaceutical drugs. Its main perk? It does not come with all the unpleasant side effects…

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The Psychological Effects of Emotional Hunger

…that result from having an emotionally hungry parent Ways to develop more inner security How to shift to being more loving, and less emotionally hungry The Webinar will draw on Dr. Robert Firestone’s theoretical understanding of emotional hunger as well as attachment theory to explore the causes and consequences of emotional hunger. It will illuminate how a person can feel for their experience, overcome the impact of emotional hunger, and learn t…

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Do You or Your Partner Have an Anxious Attachment?

…he online workshop, “Developing Secure Attachment.” In order to build more inner security, we have to understand our own attachment history and where our models for relationships come from. With this understanding, we can develop a coherent narrative of our early experiences that will give us insight into how we relate today. It can also be helpful to build relationships with people who have a more secure attachment style than our own. If we hang…

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