July 2016 – Keith Wilson

The Shrink’s Links: The Fat Nutritionist

Here’s a website I like, the Fat Nutritionist. One who advocates a sane approach to food. Click here to go to a post on being nice to yourself.

The Road to Reconciliation: Understand the People of the Mind

As if it wasn’t hard enough to deal with the people who hurt you, you also have to deal with their representatives you carry around in your head. Actual people you can divorce, send to jail, move across the country and never see again; the people of the mind follow you, they share your bedContinue reading “The Road to Reconciliation: Understand the People of the Mind”

The Shrink’s Links: There is no try

The Road to Reconciliation: Get out of the middle of the picture

Let’s say you are deeply disappointed in your mother, who never was the mother you needed her to be when you were a child. You want to get past this because, after all, you’re not a child anymore, right? The story, as you tell it, goes like this: My mother divorced my father when IContinue reading “The Road to Reconciliation: Get out of the middle of the picture”

The Shrink’s Links: Spanking

Bringing you the best of mental health every week. Being the father of four children, I completely understand the urge to spank. My children are all adults and I still, from time to time, want to take them over my knee and give them a good one. So, there is the urge, but beyond theContinue reading “The Shrink’s Links: Spanking”

The Road to Reconcilation: Stay on the Road

First, I had you acknowledge your feelings, then set them aside. I had you recognize that you were a victim, then I urged you to stop playing the victim. I told you to not forgive cheaply, then I said you were a fool not to forgive. So, which is it? You ask. What do IContinue reading “The Road to Reconcilation: Stay on the Road”