by Deborah Cox | Aug 15, 2020 | anger, Anxiety & Calm, Becoming More of Your True Self, Coaching For the Therapist, cultural healing, dissociation, EMDR, Feel Better, getting grounded, Mood, Reconceive, Relational Cultural Theory, Relationships, Therapy, Uncategorized, Write and Heal
How does anger help us exit sick systems? Anger helps us exit sick systems. How? Anger allows information processing, because it is a part of the learning curve. So, let’s look at how anger facilitates timely exit when we need it. First, sick systems tend to have...
by Deborah Cox | Jun 15, 2020 | anger, Reconceive, Relational Cultural Theory, Uncategorized, Write and Heal
Anger Wisdom Means Knowing Our Triggers Here’s the beginning of one of my big anger triggers. When I was eleven, a younger kid who came to our house for violin lessons wanted to feed my little red swordfish. I warned him not to add any flakes because I’d just...
by Deborah Cox | Oct 29, 2018 | Becoming More of Your True Self, Create Art, Feel Better, following inspiration, Mood, Write and Heal
Creating Soul Healing You probably know how I feel about this one. Art saves lives. But for the rest of this post, I’ll stay away from the word, “Art,” and replace it with “Creativity” or “Creating.” Creating leads us out of...
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 | Apr 2, 2017 | Anxiety & Calm, Becoming More of Your True Self, Coaching For the Therapist, Create Art, Feel Better, Mood, Write and Heal
Your higher self knows how to calm you. We all want to find calm receptive mode. But not everybody wants to get a massage (although we should – there are people who can make us feel safer and less awkward). Some of us need action. We need to be out in a kayak or...
by Deborah Cox | Jan 26, 2017 | Becoming More of Your True Self, child maltreatment, Therapy, Women, Write and Heal
Lies often come from authority-figures. When I was growing up, preachers told the story of Abraham and Isaac: the one about how Abraham takes his child to a mountaintop and prepares to stab him to death as a sacrifice to God (whose ego must have been puny).Every time...
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