by Brian Balke | Sep 13, 2020 | Relationships
Sex is the spice of life, but does it make a great relationship? We are built to feel that it should. As animals, everything that we do is designed to serve the survival of our genes. When that urge is frustrated, we feel frustrated. But, you know, society...
by Brian Balke | Apr 30, 2019 | Relationships
Psychoanalysis presupposes that we can reason about our behavior, but our brain adapts to the conditions of infancy long before we can reason. Most importantly, it is in infancy that we decide whether to trust that the world will care for us. In refining his...
by Brian Balke | Feb 27, 2019 | Basics
Exchange When living in tribes, young adults left home with all the skills they needed to survive off the land. Living now in cities, most of us enter adult life with only the skills to keep track of our obligations: we can write and read directions and make change,...
by Brian Balke | Jan 23, 2019 | Basics, Specializations
A Hypnotherapist’s View: Basic Behavior Battle trauma creates an imbalance in the warrior’s mind. Fear dominates his or her expectations. Obviously battle is not a typical experience, and the imbalance is extreme. But parents raise children with predispositions toward...
