For a while Willie Nelson owned an older truckstop on Interstate 35 between Austin and Dallas. (ownership not confirmed). I was working in Dallas often and stopped often at Willie’s Place to break up the drive and enjoy a chicken-fried steak. Attached to the Cafe was a small convenience store. …
Using Distance–The Flight Risk Husband When anxiety is high in a relationship, people use distance, conflict, over/under functioning, or a triangle (bringing in a third person). We are predictable. What couple or pair of siblings or parent-child duo isn’t exhausted going around and around in familiar and worthless patterns? Most …
The internet doesn’t need another psychologist answer site, thus I’ve decided to share what’s really been going on in my head behind the therapist blank looks and smiles. I take this step with great trepidation. I keep hearing what my father said when I became editor of my high school …
Psychology for the Short Attention Span I’ve been away from writing on this site for a while for a couple of reasons. The first was that the site was constantly being hi-jacked so that you, my friends, were forced to fight your way through full page ads to reach the …
“I can’t believe this is happening. . . to me.” We’re good people, right? Or we try to be. And yet we suffer. We start out each day with a plan, an intention toward kindness, and sometimes even a list. And then reality steps up and dents our serenity. It …
Cold Turkey Quick Fix Are you ready to be less predictable and downright mysterious? Now that you have owned your responsibility for your reaction habits (The motto: This is unfortunate, inconvenient, and unpleasant, but not a disaster unless I decide to make it one.) and you have been successful in …
Change Your Reactions, Change Your Life Quick Fix #2 Instant Buddha Quick Fix #2 for the Short Attention Span brings big results. Yet it’s so simple, anyone can do it. My dogs can do it. Sometimes. Set-up. For you to have a reaction, first you must perceive an action—You smash …
