What do you do when you are faced with adversity and feel like you are drowning in it? My previous entry discussed the subject of hope. I believe that part of finding hope is finding meaning. Various theoretical orientations include approaches that focus on shifting or changing negative cognitions to positive ones. Encouraging the client [...]
I was six years old running with a wild pack comprised of my thirteen cousins, equal parts boys and girls, at our Grandmother’s farm in upstate New York. As our mother’s drank coffee and chatted and our dad’s played poker and tried to solve the world’s problems me and my kin were not only allowed, [...]
My email inboxes have recently been bombarded with spam excitedly pitching custom-made university diplomas, fake college degrees and transcripts purportedly belonging to “world famous” people. If that wasn’t enough, there are also spam mails meant to entice with offers of “high-end” Rolex replicas for gift-giving. As we celebrate the winter solstice, the holidays and a [...]
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