A Psychologist on the Loose
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Couple Stress, the “Woman Who Didn’t Know If She Liked French Fries”
Fusion and the “Woman Who Didn’t Know If She Liked French Fries Incident”
Dateline: Bergstrom Interantional Airport, which is deep in the forests of northeast part of Germany or in south Austin.
Fusion is the emotional process that occurs when the way one person feels is automatically absorbed by another person. Every close relationship includes a certain amount of adaptation to calm the other, the question is, to what degree? It’s only with too much fusion that we get into trouble.
For example: the family member who avoids going home for Christmas because he or she feels like a different person (less confident) when around family. More >
What’s Your Number? What Gets You Going?
Picture yourself as having a telephone punch pad on your forehead.
Each button is a statement or subject that can make you go crazy (EMOTIONAL GUIDANCE SYSTEM in charge).
Which buttons in your system are just waiting to be pushed and you will lose charge of yourself? For me CRITICISM (real or imagined) is hardest for me to not respond to. Yep, fling me a criticism and I FUSE with the anxiety of the person doing the flinging.
Yoda Note: When someone says something ugly about you, it isn’t about you. It isn’t about you even when it is about you. Meaning, the other person wouldn’t be pointing More >