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Why a New Year Makes Sense for Goals
Jess Bailey at Unsplash It seems that annually a minor debate emerges about whether New Year’s resolutions are effective. Should people even participate in them? Don’t most people fail in them most of the time? What is special about a new year versus any other time...
Best Ways to Prevent Anxiety Attacks
Guest blog by Sophie Letts at meditationhelp.net. If your anxiety is continuing to get the better of you, it’s time to connect with a licensed therapist who can help you find the tools you need to combat your anxiety. Connect with Patrick Ramsey of Ramsey Counseling...
Ten Ego Checks That Help Relationships
When talking about consciousness or awareness, a major key is being able to control the ego. In Freudian terms, the ego can get complicated, but when I discuss it all I mean is that part of the personality that acts by impulse in the function of demanding wants and...
The Normal Sadness of Everyday Life Verses the Fog of Depression
I’ve been hearing a lot about depression today from various sources, some people asking what the difference is between sadness and depression, some wondering if people have to live with it as a life-long illness, and some just wondering what steps to take. Depression...
Creating Strategies Is Key Unless You’re Anakin Skywalker
Years ago when the Star Wars prequels came out I remember being annoyed by the young Anakin Skywalker. Though he was nowhere as annoying as his whiny older self, played by Hayden Christensen, I hated that the young to-be apprentice seemed to accidentally be the hero...
A Break from Chaos
Today I attended a lecture on Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy given by UTPB’s Assistant Professor in Counseling, Robert Zeglin, Ph.D., LPC, NCC. It was last week that I registered for the lecture, and I remember thinking that I’d not studied REBT in-depth,...
Martin Luther King Day and Being Together
I’ve always liked Dr. King, even as a kid in elementary school, when I didn’t really understand the impact of his life on twentieth century America and the world. Little did I realize in Mrs. Smith’s class in the fifth grade that King’s death had come just about a...
What the Golden Gate Bridge Uncovers About Severe Depression
Walking across the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco brought several reminders as crossed the strait that divides the two sides of what is a very tiny looking area of California on a map. First, as is the case with many monumental natural and man-made structures, I...
Yogurt Stains and My Lack of Cool
I don’t have my shit together. What a crass way to start of a blog post, right? I’ll add to the previous statement—I’m not under any illusions that I have my shit together. If I was listening to someone while in the counseling seat, my first questions would be, “What...
Burritos and Life Lessons
Not long ago I entered the Taco Villa drive through at an Odessa location with the intention of getting a bean and cheese burrito to tide me over for a couple of hours. Being fairly cheap, and at that moment needing fairly cheap food prepared quickly, reliable Tex-Mex...