According to a survey, published November 9, 2018 in JAMA Network Open, 8.6 percent of people report experiencing distress or feeling unable to function normally due to problems controlling their sexual urges, feelings, and behaviors. Interpreting the survey results exposes issues that plague the entire…

I never thought about loneliness as a trigger for addiction. Then I heard this TED talk yesterday from Rachel Wurzman entitled, “How isolation fuels opioid addiction.” Then it all began to make sense. Isolation breeds loneliness and loneliness affects connection, intimacy and attachment negatively. People…

I am. And I want to tell you how I get past it. The couples I see in counseling sessions argue over the smallest, minute things and then it escalates into misunderstandings and holding on to resentments. Then they pay me to tell them what…

Addiction Counselors and entrepreneurs working alone may suffer from intellectual loneliness. Intellectual loneliness is a term I coined to represent the lonely feeling a person feels when there is no intellectual stimulation; no one to bounce ideas off of, or simply to have an intellectual…

I am where I am supposed to be  When we attempt to push away negative feelings they simply develop greater power and energy over us. What we resist, persists. Many people believe they can live their lives avoiding any form of pain or suffering, loss…

Perfectionism is all about fear Feeling we have to be perfect is all about fear. Old messages bombard us with warnings we may not be good enough or ‘what will other people think?’ Other people procrastinate because of childhood messages of “do it perfectly or…