by Deborah Cox | Oct 12, 2020 | anger, child maltreatment, Connect, cultural healing, Relational Cultural Theory, Relationships
Sibling Political Anger I just spent a Saturday with my brother – after years of unspoken anger, political divisions, and very little contact. Three years my junior, he lives just twenty minutes away, Yet, we see each other perhaps once or twice a year. Michael and I...
by Deborah Cox | May 28, 2018 | Coaching For the Therapist, Connect, Feel Better, Relational Cultural Theory, Relationships, Therapy
How do you do it? . . . . . . People often say. How can a therapist sit with people who are in pain, hour after hour, day after day, and concentrate on how to help them feel better, while keeping themselves balanced? I usually say, “Tons of self care.” And...
by Deborah Cox | Feb 22, 2018 | Coaching For the Therapist, Connect, EMDR, Feel Better, Therapy
ReConceive: a Podcast about All Kinds of Healing My dear friend, Melissa Sundwall, a great therapist who also happens to be a lot younger than me, says: “Let’s do a podcast.” And I say, “What’s a podcast?” That literally happened. About a year ago. So we teamed...
by Deborah Cox | Dec 30, 2017 | Becoming More of Your True Self, Coaching For the Therapist, Connect, Therapy, Write and Heal
MORE I need to write, but haven’t in a while. I got a little bogged down trying to create neat, unoffensive packages of psychotherapy. I sort of lost myself, and writing became a chore. But I’m writing my way back home, thanks to a little rest and time...
by Deborah Cox | Feb 10, 2017 | Becoming More of Your True Self, Connect, EMDR, Mood, Relationships, Therapy
I just learned something: getting more of what we want happens when we shift into the right mindset to receive . . . Receiving Mode. We want intimacy, creativity, close friendships, satisfying work, a healthy family . . . a healthy community, nation, and world....
by Deborah Cox | Jan 25, 2017 | Becoming More of Your True Self, Connect, Mood, Relational Cultural Theory, Relationships, Women
Saturday was Voice Medicine for me. Not only did I march and yell, I connected with thousands (millions) of others and said, We All Belong Here. It countered the heavy weight of worry and dread I’d been feeling for the last two and a half months (maybe longer), made...
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