Is There More to Love Than What You’ve Experienced?
One of the core traits of a dependent personality is difficulty accepting challenging or disturbing truths about self or others out of a need to maintain the status quo.
How Do You Handle Unresolved Anger?
When the world is against you, when people are out to get you, when events are against you, you live in a state of siege. A siege mentality contributes to the state of Red Alert. Unresolved anger is a breeding ground for stress
Depression is on the Rise
As more people become aware of depression, they recognize its presence in their own lives. The nameless dread, the constant fear, the ever-present weight takes on a name. It has now become a “diagnosis.”
Are You Addicted to Internet Pornography?
Pornography addiction is like any addiction, in that it is progressive in nature. What began as exciting and arousing becomes less so over time, and there is a need to increase the amount, volume, and depravity of the images in order to achieve the same level of stimulation.
Depression: Learning False Truths
Sadly, many of us grow into adulthood with a list of childhood truths that can include many false and incomplete truths. Families, for good or ill, give us our first lessons about ourselves.
Get Moving: Physical Motion and Depression
Fat is a bad word. Diet is a bad word. Exercise is a bad word. That’s why we need to discuss “physical motion.” The reality is that most people don’t exercise, but everybody moves. Ben came to The Center • A Place of HOPE tired, burned out,...
Relationships: The Disorganized Attachment Style
A disorganized person is a hodgepodge of responses without a consistent pattern. If there is a pattern, it is that there is no pattern. The disorganized person has come to view relationships, often because of the presence of abuse, as a source of both comfort and fear.
Relationships: The Ambivalent Attachment Style
In a previous post, we discussed the traits of individuals with The Secure Attachment Style. Now, let’s discuss The Ambivalent Attachment Style. An ambivalent attachment style comes from a childhood in which love and affection are inconsistently given, based...
Relationships: The Secure Attachment Style
How do you know if you have a secure attachment style? People who have this attachment style exhibit specific characteristics and personality traits. Here is a list of statements for those with a secure attachment style.
Living with PTSD
Imagine being involved in a terrifying incident where you were physically harmed or threatened. Then imagine reliving that awful memory over and over again, each time as fresh and horrific as when it happened. This is the essence of PTSD.
Partnering Online
Recent technology has presented us with a new, potentially devastating forum for inappropriately sexualized relationships. The Internet with its anonymity and wide-open content can tempt us to cross physical and sexual boundaries.