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Month: May 2013

Money Stress: Why We Use Money to Feel Bad About Ourselves

The American Psychological Association’s “Stress in America” survey revealed that work and money are the two leading causes of stress in Americans. We know that money needs to be managed, but many people may fail to realize that there are emotional aspects to handling money that are rooted pretty deeply in our pasts. Many people…

5 Signs of Emotional Abuse

It is estimated that 1 in 4 women will experience domestic abuse at some point during her lifetime, though it is hard to find real data since most domestic abuses are not reported. Abusive behavior is not solely physical abuse, but can also be emotional abuse which is just as dangerous and damaging. Emotional and…

8 Beliefs that are Actually Terrible Advice on Marriage

There is a lot of marriage advice that may seem like “common sense” which is often given by people who mean well that doesn’t actually help the marriage in any significant way. Some can even be counterproductive to saving a marriage. Ongoing marriage difficulties in the face of trying to improve the relationship may have…

Explore Alternatives | Evidence Based Psychotherapy in Seattle

  A review of the psychological literature reveals that only a very small percentage of psychotherapy services in the United States are tightly linked to existing scientific knowledge. It is a really quite strange if you think of it. Would anyone want undergo medical surgery that was not based on a current scientific understanding of…

Watching Porn in Seattle | The Problem That Must Not Be Named

  It’s ironic, but it is hard to have an adult conversation about sex. In some areas, sexually loaded topics are so taboo that you risk your reputation even to raise them. It is not as though we are unaware of this inconvenient truth, despite its political incorrectness in the mainstream culture. Recent research suggests that…

Psychological Suffering is Not Just About Pain

Clearly, suffering is a basic fact of life for humans. Yet suffering is not just about pain — psychological — or otherwise. It’s much more than that. Humans don’t just experience pain; they agonize over their painful memories, uncomfortable emotions, difficult self-evaluations. They worry and obsess about them, they dread them, they engage in all…

The Problem With Language | Acceptance Commitment Therapy

Not too long ago, perhaps a couple hundred thousand years, an obscure primate species called “human” learned a new trick. We learned to relate events arbitrarily–we learned to have one thing stand for another. We acquired symbolic thought. We’ve been bossed around ever since… The comedian Emo Philips has a saying that captures the situation…

What to Do When You are Thinking About Ending the Marriage

It is a tough place to find yourself, facing a situation where the only two options seem to be to stay in an unsatisfying relationship or to get out of it. The decisions a person makes in this situation will have long-term effects on their life. It can be important to consider the third option…

Weeding the Relationship Garden

Wendy Strgar learned about weeds before gardens. With her first garden, she inadvertently planted weeds that would overrun the garden she was trying to create until “gardening” and “weeding” became synonymous words for all practical purposes. Learning gardening, she learned that removing weeds was an important part of creating the garden that she wanted. As…

5 Signs that You May Have an Anger Problem

Anger itself is not a bad thing, but the behaviors that can result from being angry can be. It isn’t unheard of for a person to not realize that their anger is a problem, while the people around them are well aware of it. This causes relationship problems, not helped by the fact that the…

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