by Deborah Cox | Sep 29, 2015 | Relationships, Therapy
Dissociation takes us out of the moment. Yesterday, I stood in the MSU music building while my son warmed up for a violin performance. All around me, young pianists and violinists practiced their Chopin, their Mozart, in separate cubicles, getting ready to play for a...
by Deborah Cox | Sep 15, 2015 | Write and Heal
Wife Material, my new novel, started as a memoir before it became a work of fiction. I wrote it because I could not- not write it. In the beginning, I tried to expose the dark side of a religious sect – the one in which I spent my childhood. In the end, I’d made up...
by Deborah Cox | Sep 4, 2015 | Becoming More of Your True Self, Women
My husband keeps asking how I want to celebrate my dreaded 50th birthday. He means well. But nothing sounds quite right. A Mediterranean cruise?…No A zip line through the Rocky Mountains?…No A party with all our friends and a margarita machine?…No...
by Deborah Cox | Aug 27, 2015 | Mood
I first noticed the failure of psychology as a young psychologist, fresh out of graduate school with my half-mortgage-sized student loan. But because of that loan and all the training it represented, I refused to say this out loud. I was a new convert, an evangelist,...
by Deborah Cox | Aug 25, 2015 | Mood
Okay, I need to talk about something that really pisses me off. “I got spanked and I turned out just fine.” People who say this, in defense of old school parenting advice, usually prove my point, cluelessly. They hold a tight little view of the world. They...
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