Stand with your feet comfortably together. Take one foot and stick it out in the direction you want to go until you throw yourself off balance. Then, at the last instant, when you’re about to fall on your face, bring the other foot forward to stop yourself from falling. Repeat this dangerous operation as longContinue reading “Learn to Walk”
Monthly Archives: November 2017
If You Can’t Find Help
Let’s face it, it is a whole lot easier to acquire a Problem than it is to get help in eradicating it. In many localities, there are drug dealers at every corner, but to get your loved one to a clinic, takes two buses. Intake coordinators will make him wait in a room with oldContinue reading “If You Can’t Find Help”
Why I can’t take Medicare
I would love to take Medicare, but I, and every other licensed mental health counselor and marriage and family therapist are not permitted to do so, because of an arcane regulation that needs an act of Congress to change. It just so happens that there is a bill before Congress that aims to change that:Continue reading “Why I can’t take Medicare”
Simulate Dawn
Bringing you the best of mental health You’re not a morning person. If you were, you wouldn’t be hitting the snooze alarm so much and be late for work so many times. When you do succeed in hauling yourself upright, you wouldn’t feel quite so grumpy, and so unable to do the very things thatContinue reading “Simulate Dawn “
Don’t Try, Do
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Team Up with the Person Against the Problem
If you get the opportunity to work with your loved one to vanquish the Problem, don’t mistake this opportunity for the Problem, itself. You could blow your chance because of the presence of your own Problem. Let’s say your husband has not been able to keep it in his pants. He’s flirted with others, cheatedContinue reading “Team Up with the Person Against the Problem”