A Bridge Too Far?

A Bridge Too Far?

Kappasinian desensitization allows a client to manage emotional reactions that inhibit normal behaviors. The most common emotional reaction is panic in confined spaces (elevators or airplanes) but can also present as shame that causes us to rebuff intimacy or...
Trusting Yourself to Love

Trusting Yourself to Love

If this is your memory of your first relationship, you may hope that therapy would help you find the strength to trust again in other people. But deep down in the subconscious realm, there was a question being asked of the social part of the mind. “Why? This is...

Virtue in the Time of Coronavirus

Change is difficult in the best of times. Sometimes that change is joyfully awaited, such as the birth of a child. Even then, though, every parent will speak of moments of confusion, exhaustion, and perhaps grief over the changes that swept through their lives. Those...
Personal Development: Part 8

Personal Development: Part 8

Truth I grew up in a thoughtful environment, surrounded by people that engaged the world with confidence. As I filled the gas tank after high school one day, I couldn’t believe my eyes as a woman in a Cadillac slowly backed her car up toward the tanker hoses, glancing...
Why Hypnotherapy – 2 of 2

Why Hypnotherapy – 2 of 2

Our previous post described the general pattern of hypnotherapy. You might expect that hypnotherapy can be faster than talk therapy practiced by psychologists, and you’d be right. That said, talk therapy is necessary when the undesired behavior results from a chemical...