anxiety
Healthy Relationships: Who’s on First? What’s on Second?
Who’s on First? What’s on Second? Navigating In, Through and Around the Independence, Codependence and Interdependence of Loving Relationships Remember that old Abbott and Costello skit where the two of them go back and forth and round and round trying to have a clear conversation about “Who’s on first,”etc.? If you do, then surely your…
Read MoreThe Lost Commandment: Thou Shalt Not Should On Thyself
I should do that. I should’ve done that. I shouldn’t have done that. You should do that. You should’ve done that. You shouldn’t have done that. They should do that. They should’ve done that. They shouldn’t have done that. There’s a lot of “shoulding” going on these days. How odd, then,…
Read MoreHealthcare: NOT Health NOR Care…Emergency, Urgency and Currency
. My 90-year-old mother was recently taken via ambulance to Bayfront Health St. Petersburg, (the former Bayfront Medical Center) due to a fall she had when she was out walking. Fortunately, in spite of a black and blue face and a couple stitches on her forehead, my mom had no serious damage. She is blessed,…
Read MoreWe Are (Probably) ALL Addicts
My team warned me NOT to write this. In fact, they threatened to quit if I did. See ya, guys; there’s the door. I’m writing it anyways! (They’re full of idle threats, and I know they’re just watching out for me!) We are (probably) ALL addicts. So there, I said it (actually wrote it, but…
Read MoreWhat IS Addiction?
When you put “addiction” into the almighty Google search engine window, you’ll see that there are “about 166,000,000 results.” That’s a lot of places online where the word addiction shows up. Aside from Wikipedia (no offense, guys), which seems to get itself as the first listing most of the time, Psychology Today is the top…
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