Loneliness is a very common form of human suffering. It starts with Mother Figure-Infant disconnect as the CAUSE. When the primary caregiver does not supply enough of the emotional ingredients for the baby to take in the blueprint of a warm, nurturing, available...
Feeling Stuck In A Rut And Not Knowing WhyI’m very big on Sigmund Freud. He was a genius in many senses of the word. He introduced a concept that is invaluable in my practice: the repetition principle. The textbook term is “repetition compulsion” and refers to a state...
Overeating, especially during the holidays, can destabilize your mood. Food, like any drug, can be used to self-medicate our emotions. It starts with Mother-Infant disconnect as CAUSE. When Mother, or primary caregiver doesn’t supply enough of the emotional...
Instead of keeping score, give in your own way because you want to.We don’t mean to, but we do it all the time: that unconscious tally—what you did, what I did. What I did that you didn’t do. What I wish you would do, but I know you won’t, and I’ll resent you for—...
I often get calls from couples complaining that they have been to several therapists with no results. Why is this so?The fact of the matter is, when two people come together in an intimate relationship, past wounds from childhood get reactivated within the...