A Psychologist on the Loose
Parents and Siblings
Baseball, Rose Colored Glasses, and Family Stress.
Baseball, Rose Colored Glasses, and Family Stress.
Dateline: Las Vegas Paris Sportsbook International Branch Office. Just put my twenty on my team to win over 59 games this season. Usually, I put my twenty on them to win the pennant. Odds 500 to 1. I’m pretty sure the bet taker doesn’t even register my bet. The cashier merely winks at his co-workers and pockets the money. But this time I could bet only on them winning 59 out of 162 games. Happy Dance.
Loyalty is not about winning. Or depending on others, including family, to make you feel like a winner.
Reduce Stress Instantly, The Flying Lawn Chair Incident
Stress. The Flying Lawn Chair Incident. How to Save Time Instantly.
Dateline: DFW Airport International Branch Headquarters, chair in the corner, face to the wall.
First, I’d like to apologize to those unfortunate passengers on flights with me this weekend. If you are thinking, “Maybe I was on a plane with her and I didn’t know it,” you were not. If you recall a short blond woman, her agonized face mashed into the window, who seemed determined to cough up her lungs, or heard one side of the 737 you were in crackle and thunder, just maybe you were. I’m very, very sorry.
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Stress. Perception and “The Case of the Well-Shaved Woman”
Stress and Anxiety at the Pool
Dateline: San Antonio MiTierra International Branch Office. Home of most beautiful bar and an incredible bakery. Working with mariachis and tacos. Life is good.
The paper this morning had a letter from a woman who was appalled, very appalled. Appalled enough to take some serious action. Those of us in Texas have suffered a drought over the summer leading to watering restrictions of various sorts and lots of conversation.
The Appalled Lady (AL) was writing to inform the city of a natural resources problem that, perhaps, the rest of us didn’t know about. Austin, Texas is the home of More >
The Intoxicated Babysitter and the Third Graders at the Renaissance Hotel
The Intoxicated Babysitter and the Third Graders at the Renaissance Hotel
Dateline: Chili’s bar, Little League World Series Final. These kids are great fun.
What was your first thought when seeing the two boys in the pool. Was it, where were their parents? Not that the question is a bad one, just not the only one.t was your level of fear seeing pic? Remember herding sheep in other countries. The swimmers do look a bit younger than the third graders in the situation below.
Okay, one more shot at James Arthur Ray, then I’ll let him go. Maybe. The sweat lodge situation is just such a good More >
Fall Series on Bowen Family Systems Theory
Bowen Theory: Chronic Anxiety and Defining a Self
Fall 2011 Seminar
This early notice is to provide information for department heads and agency directors.
As a part of our commitment to study and share Bowen theory, eight sessions on the theory originated by Dr. Murray Bowen will be presented in Austin by Hal DeShong, Ph.D. and Barbara DeShong, Ph.D. Programs will be two hours each on every other Tuesday beginning September 13 and concluding December 13. To accommodate the holiday season, December sessions will be held on the first two Tuesdays of that month. The time for the program will be determined by More >
Stress, Anxiety, and All the Pretty Little Drinks, Part 1
Stress, Anxiety, and All the Pretty Little Drinks
“Thinking for Yourself” Therapy on Someone Else’s Dime
Dateline: Mi Terra Restaurante, San Antonio. Davy Crockett died down the street not that many blocks in Fall of the Alamo. (Played in the latest remake by Billy Bob Thornton who delivered the one good line in the movie. As the Mexicans held him up to be shot, he shouted, “I gotta warn you, I’m a screamer!” ) The remains of the Alamo dead are in a vault a few blocks at Flores and Commerce in the San Fernando Cathedral.
Group Think versus Thinking for Yourself is a tricky More >
The Wrestler, Praise, and Self Confidence
How much of who you are is just living out the expectations of others?
How much of who you are is just holding off your fears?
How much of who I am is just a reaction to too many episodes of Most Shocking Police Videos? (Gotcha.)
Back to The Wrestler. Warning: Plot busters revealed in this post.
Randy the Ram (Mickey Rourke), The Wrestler, is a man who split rather than figure out how to have close relationships with people who were actually close (wife, daughter, friends). Now, this is not to blame Randy or label him, because he, like the rest of us, came by his defense systems honestly. He reacted More >