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Category Archives: Failure
Taking a Chance on Change
Change. It seems like it should be so easy. Things are this way. I want them to be that way. I’ll simply do it differently. If only it worked like that all of the time. But too often it doesn’t. … Continue reading
Posted in Accomodation, Adult Differentiation, Authentic Self, Awen Therapy, Change, Choices, Courage, Emotions, Failure, Fear, Jay Blevins, MFT, Psychotherapy, Risk, Stuck, Therapy
Tagged Awen Therapy, Change, Choices, Emotions, Fear, Jay Blevins, MFT, Obligations, Stuck, Therapy
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A Picture May Be Worth A Thousand Words…Are They the Right Ones?
As a therapist I see many different ways that people set themselves up for failure. Sometimes they do it intentionally out of fear or because they gain something else by failing. But sometimes they do it unintentionally. They set an … Continue reading
Posted in Awen Therapy, Challenges, Emotions, Expectations, Failure, Jay Blevins, MFT, Pictures, Psychotherapy, Therapy
Tagged Awen Therapy, Emotions, Expectations, Getting in own way, Imperfection, Jay Blevins, MFT, Pictures, Therapy
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Being Right Versus Being Kind – Take 2…
Last week I wrote about how sometimes it is more important to be kind than it is to be right when we are interacting with important people in our lives. But like most things, there are multiple facets of the … Continue reading
Posted in Awen Therapy, Care, Compassion, Emotions, Failure, MFT, Mistakes, Perfection, Psychotherapy, Shame, Therapy
Tagged Awen Therapy, Compassion, Failure, Imperfection, Kindness, MFT, Mistakes, patterns, Perfection, Perspective, Therapy, Understanding
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We Can All Use a Little Help Sometimes…
I had the opportunity to sit in a session with another therapist the other day. I loved having the chance because I think this therapist is one of the best I know. During the session she used a concept that … Continue reading
Posted in Awen Therapy, Borrowed Functioning, Challenges, Change, Confidence, Failure, Fear, MFT, Patterns, Psychotherapy, Reasons, Resistance, Risk, Self-Esteem, Sharing, Strength
Tagged Awen Therapy, Borrowed Functioning, Change, Failure, Fear, Help, MFT, patterns, Risk
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Confident…About What?
I was having a conversation with a friend they other day when they asked me a question that caught me off guard. They asked me “how can you always be so confident and know what to do?” The reason I … Continue reading
Posted in Awen Therapy, Bravery, Challenges, Confidence, Courage, Failure, Fall, Fear, MFT, Mistakes, Perfection, Therapy
Tagged Awen Therapy, Challenge, Change, Confidence, Failure, Fear, Imperfection, MFT, Perfection
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The Process of Change Revisited
Sometime back I wrote a post titled Change vs. the Process of Change. I discussed the fact that change is the place we want to be while the process of change is the road to reaching that place. It is … Continue reading
Posted in Awen Therapy, Change, Emotional Safety, Failure, Fear, Imperfection, Mistakes, Perfection, Perspectives, Psychotherapy, Relationships
Tagged Awen Therapy, Change, Couples, Journey, Perfection, Relationships, Risk, Therapy, Understanding
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Expectations, Rules and Patterns
A client recently sent me a blog post about rules versus expectations. It contained a lot of what I agree with. Basically expectations are the general assumptions we make about other people…about how they will behave in certain situations. Things … Continue reading
Posted in Awen Therapy, Compromise, Discussion, Expectations, Failure, MFT, Patterns, Relationships, Rules, Therapy, Uncategorized
Tagged Awen Therapy, Communication, Couples, Expectations, MFT, patterns, Relationships, Rules, Therapy, Understanding
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Spinning a Tale…
Here I go again. Another post centered on a TED Talk. What can I say? I’m a huge fan. If I was young and hip I might say I was a fanboy. Fortunately I don’t suffer from any illusions that … Continue reading
Posted in 4 a.m., Authentic Self, Awen Therapy, Challenges, Control, Decisions, Failure, Fear, Identity, Imperfection, MFT, Mistakes, Perfection, Perspectives, Poet Rives, Problem Saturated, Psychotherapy, Reasons, Risk, TED Talk, Therapy, Tools, Vulnerability
Tagged Anxiety, Awen Therapy, Change, Emotions, Fear, Imperfection, MFT, Perfection, Perspective, Poet Rives, Problem Saturated, Reasons, Risk, TED Talk, Therapy, Vulnerability
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I Don’t Read Instruction Manuals Anyway…
Mistakes, mistakes, mistakes. We all make them. How can we not? We are imperfect beings. We have limits…of understanding, of knowledge, of experiences. But yet we so often beat ourselves up for making them. Some of us more than others. … Continue reading
Posted in Acceptance, Awen Therapy, Challenges, Change, Failure, Imperfection, Mistakes, Therapy
Tagged Awen Therapy, Change, Imperfection, Instructions, MFT, Mistakes, Perfection, Perspective, Therapy
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What are we waiting for?
I saw this image on a blog the other day. I read it and it felt like it slapped me in the face. It seems like such an obvious concept. We spend our days “being careful” and not exposing ourselves … Continue reading
Posted in Awen Therapy, Connection, Emotions, Failure, Fear, Love, Psychotherapy, Relationships, Reward, Risk, Self-Esteem, Therapy, Vulnerability
Tagged Awen Therapy, Change, Couples, Emotions, MFT, Relationships, Reward, Risk, Therapy, Vulnerability
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