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7 Secrets of Letting Go
As challenging as it can be to move on from a bad emotional experience, here are seven ways to help make the process more than a bit easier.Tags: mindful awareness, relationships (Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features)
Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features - August 25, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Dr George Simon, PhD Tags: General mindful awareness relationships Source Type: news

The Will to Bear Discomfort: A Key Character Trait
Some folks make a mess of their own lives as well as the lives of others because they haven't cultivated the will to endure and work through uncomfortable feelings or circumstances.Tags: character disturbance, decision making, responsibility (Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features)
Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features - August 18, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Dr George Simon, PhD Tags: General character disturbance decision making responsibility Source Type: news

Acceptance and Change: Lessons From Mateo’s Cupcake Battle
It's one thing to give superficial assent to a demand placed upon us, but it's quite another when we truly accept in our hearts some principle of conduct and change our way of doing things. That's why adults sometimes act like children.Tags: parenting and children (Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features)
Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features - August 11, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Dr George Simon, PhD Tags: General parenting and children Source Type: news

The Joy of Helping
There are so many places in the world where your mere presence is so welcome and your talents so valued that you experience an uncommon degree of positive regard just by being present and giving of yourself. Tags: work-life (Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features)
Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features - August 4, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Dr George Simon, PhD Tags: General work-life Source Type: news

Self-Image: How We See Ourselves and Why It Matters
All of us tend to think that we're okay and it's everyone else who's all screwed up. But usually the truth lies somewhere in the middle. Others have their flaws, we have ours.Tags: relationships, self-esteem (Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features)
Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features - July 28, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Dr George Simon, PhD Tags: General relationships self-esteem Source Type: news

Landscape Therapy: Emotional Healing Courtesy of Mother Nature
Sometimes when I'm stressed, and need relief, I'll conjure up a memory of a picturesque landscape and use the natural world as an antidote for emotional distress and malaise -- "landscape therapy," I sometimes call it.Tags: anxiety and stress, presence, relaxation (Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features)
Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features - July 21, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Dr George Simon, PhD Tags: General anxiety and stress presence relaxation Source Type: news

Satire: Snideness that Satisfies
There's something inherently satisfying about poking fun at public figures, but good satire is about more than just poking fun at people. It calls our attention to important but possibly scary or forbidden things in a palatable way.Tags: communication, politics, society (Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features)
Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features - July 15, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Dr George Simon, PhD Tags: General communication politics society Source Type: news

When Therapy “Enables”
Therapy can be a rewarding and empowering experience, a great facilitator of growth -- or it can be an enabler of dysfunction.Tags: dependence, in practice, therapy (Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features)
Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features - July 7, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Dr George Simon, PhD Tags: General dependence in practice therapy Source Type: news

Becoming a Mature Adult: Is 50 the New 30?
Rates of human physical development have accelerated in recent years, but many of us are maturing much later than we used to on other important dimensions, such as "getting it" with respect to what life is all about.Tags: in practice, responsibility, social skills (Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features)
Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features - July 1, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Dr George Simon, PhD Tags: General in practice responsibility social skills Source Type: news