Category Archives: Personal Power

What’s Good for the Goose…

Posted on November 19, 2013 by awentherapy

A friend shared the following article by Emma Gray (via The Huffington Post) titled 23 Things Every Woman Should Stop Doing with me. She loved the article, as do I. Her most interesting comment was that she thought this advice applied to … Continue reading →

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Those Voices…

Posted on June 12, 2012 by awentherapy

I think most people have heard voices in their head.  I don’t mean movie-style voices directing us to be serial killers.  I mean thoughts that contradict us, that challenge whether we can succeed, that tell us we aren’t good enough.  … Continue reading →

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How Deep?

Posted on February 21, 2012 by awentherapy

My mother had a saying.  She’d ask us “How many wells does it take to make a river?” The correct response, at least according to her, was “One – if it is deep enough.” As a kid I first didn’t … Continue reading →

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When Being Nice Really Isn’t

Posted on February 14, 2012 by awentherapy

(Note – The following post is written from a heterosexual perspective.  I suspect that at least some of the concepts apply to non-heterosexual couples as well.  However, because I have only dealt with these concepts in heterosexual couples I have … Continue reading →

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Sometimes There Are Just Choices…

Posted on November 30, 2011 by awentherapy

Life seems to present us with an endless stream of choices to make.  Some of them we make without really giving them much thought.  In fact most of them are like that.  Every time we do something during the day, … Continue reading →

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