"There is no incurable illness, only incurable people.” That’s Dr. Bernie Siegel in his book “Love, Medicine, & Miracles,” with a subtitle “lessons learned about self-healing from a surgeon’s experience with exceptional patients.”That statement strikes me. I want to ...
Date Posted: June 1, 2016
Categories: Abuse / Abuse Survivor Issues, Addictions, Relationships & ...
Written By:
Dr. Angelo Subida, Psychotherapist
Many people have a negative reaction to the thought of their parents having sex; usually it is a repugnant thought, maybe accompanied by disbelief. This may be obvious, but the reason you are reading this article is because your parents had sex. All being well, they are still having sex.A ...
May 27
Categories: Aging & Geriatric Issues, Couple Counseling, Marital Counseling, ...
Written By:
Dr Oberdan Marianetti
Just recently I was having a conversation about masculine and feminine energies with someone new to the topic. The conversation was fascinating and it highlighted how confusing this topic can be.It also reminded me of some of the cases I came across, where the masculine and the feminine were ...
May 27
Categories: Codependency / Dependency, Couple Counseling, Marital Counseling, ...
Written By:
Dr Oberdan Marianetti
Ahhh.. the weekend is finally here! But, are you dreading it when Monday comes around? Sadly, you are not alone in this global epidemic of workplace unhappiness. I shared my findings and suggested ways to 'break out of the work cubicle' with a very receptive audience at a TEDx talk. We can all design the life we want.
May 27
Categories: Career Development and Change, Workplace Issues
Written By:
Dr Oberdan Marianetti
Family difficulties like conflict or divorce can be hard for children to mange a they may not be able to communcate verbally about their feelings. This can result in unresolved difficulties that may result ...
May 2
Categories: Art Therapy, Divorce / Divorce Adjustment, Family Problems
Written By:
Andrew C Wright HCPC registered (UK)
"Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart, and the senses." – Lao TzuRelationships are about trust from both partners and take open communication to maintain. When difficulties arise each person can lose the ability to compromise and ...
Apr 17
Categories: Couple Counseling, Marital Counseling, Relationships & Marriage
Written By:
Andrew C Wright HCPC registered (UK)
Image Credits: pixabay.com (CC0 Public Domain)How do I begin to define the mother-daughter relationship? I for one think that it's very dynamic and complex.Its dynamism is due to the natural progression of life. Mothers start out as primary caregivers and role models for their young ...
Feb 26
Categories: Family Problems, Life Purpose / Meaning / Inner-Guidance, Parenting, ...
Written By:
Miss Psychobabble
I’ve heard so many people talked about this. When someone has mood swing, she or he would asked me, “Am I have bipolar?”, “I felt ups and downs mood so I must be have bipolar, isn’t it?”, “Lately, I can’t control my emotion anymore and it ruin my ...
Feb 18
Categories: Bipolar, Depression, Mood Swings / Bipolar
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Picture this: someone walks up to you today and, quite matter-of-factly, informs you, “You’re an addict.”How would you react? You might recoil and bristle in indignation. You might wonder at the sanity of this person, and not without reason either. Why, you hardly drink at all ...
Jan 20
Categories: Addictions, Drug Addiction, Gambling Addiction, Love addiction
Written By:
Maryann Wei
British poet Thomas Eliot once wrote in 1935, “Human kind can not bear very much reality.” 30 years later, he as well as his loved ones were forced to bear reality. Thomas stopped writing – and breathing. It’s painful but it’s fact.
Jan 9
Categories: Adjusting to Change / Life Transitions, Adult psychological ...
Written By:
Dr. Angelo Subida, Psychotherapist
Life is stressful in modern times. Each one of us are multitasking to fit in the numerous demands of life daily. Often amidst the craziness of daily demands, life seems to spiral out control. We feel stressed, helpless, often wondering how we ended up where we are now.The good news is instead of ...
Jan 8
Categories: Career Development and Change, Happiness, Stress Management, ...
Written By:
Piyali Chakrabarti
A classic experiment almost 4 decades ago revealed that elderly residents of nursing homes who bore the onus of nurturing a potted plant outlived their counterparts who did not. More recently, research has extended advantages of indoor ...
Dec 16
Categories: Control Issues, Self-Care / Self Compassion
Written By:
Maryann Wei
This infographic on the topic 'Emotional Intelligence and Your Career' which looks at how EQ (emotional intelligence) is the new IQ.See the full infographic below: Created by Brighton School of Business and Management ...
Dec 15
Categories: Career Development and Change, Emotional Intelligence
Written By:
Psych Mat Asia Editor
Many people have heard of Elisabeth Kubler-Ross’s five stages of grief (denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance), and they generally find that these stages could reflect their grieving process, at least to ...
Dec 1
Categories: Grief, Loss, Bereavement
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When we lose someone through death, it is common for grief, sadness, anger or anxiety to appear sometimes. While these mood issues might seem like depression, the experience of grief is quite different. Grief is precipitated by distress over the loss of another e.g. death. Generally people could go ...
Dec 1
Categories: Depression, Grief, Loss, Bereavement
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The metaphor of an iceberg architecture has been widely used across both popular and academic literature, perhaps most dominantly in two areas: to represent the layers of culture (and hence “hidden” culture), as well as in Freudian terms, to describe the conscious and unconscious ...
Nov 12
Categories: Blended Family Issues, Child and/or Adolescent Issues, Child ...
Written By:
Maryann Wei