Personal Growth

Turn Divorce Into Personal Growth
by EqualityinMarriage.org
Dozens of authors have written shelves of books on recovering from the emotional pitfall of divorce. Too often, these books are bought only to become props in the living room of a person who once thrived, but is now trapped somewhere in the healing proces

Let’s Be Rational
I'm Sorry
by Jay Krunszyinsky
Are you a rational or irrational thinker? You may want to believe you are a rational thinker, but you find that you are the eternal pessimist, able to see only the half-empty glass in many situations you face. You are a rational thinker if you turn

THERAPY: Some Common Misconceptions
by Leslie Karen Lobell, M.A.
by Leslie Karen Lobell, M.A. Despite efforts to educate the public so we can move beyond the old myths and stereotypes about therapists and their clients, many people still hold beliefs such as, I thought only crazy people go to therapy.

Chapter 1
When Misery Is Company: Ending Self-Sabotage and Misery Addiction
by Anne Katherine, M.A., C.M.H.C., C.E.D.T.
Why does happiness always seem to elude certain people? And why, when these same people seem to be on the cusp of achieving happiness, do they sabotage themselves? People who are addicted to misery try to protect themselves against feeling bad

Primary Selves And Disowned Selves
Embracing Our Selves: The Voice Dialogue Manual
by Drs. Hal and Sidra Stone
We can see, then, that what is generally seen as the ego, or as one's personality, is basically the Protector/Controller selves and its friends. The job of the ego, as always, is to provide an executive function for the psyche. It needs to make choices, l

Bigotry
by Tony Schirtzinger; ACSW, CICSW
A MILLION KINDS OF BIGOTRY: Racism is only one form of bigotry. It is ugly and perverse and does tremendous damage to everyone blinded by it, but these same effects can be seen from ALL kinds of bigotry. Families and cultures teach bigotry against

Theoretical Considerations - The Birth Of Personality
Embracing Our Selves: The Voice Dialogue Manual
by Drs. Hal and Sidra Stone
The key issue in thinking about the development of personality is the understanding of vulnerability and the pivotal role that it plays. We are all born totally vulnerable and in our early months and years of life, we must be taken care of by other people

The Voice Dialogue Method
Embracing Our Selves: The Voice Dialogue Manual
by Drs. Hal and Sidra Stone
In the last section of this chapter we wish to describe to you the method of Voice Dialogue and how it may be used in clinical practice with individuals and, to a lesser extent, with couples. It is the basic attitude towards the work and the selves

The Power of Self-Trust
Trusting Yourself: How to Stop Feeling Overwhelmed and Live More Happily with Less Effort
by Mary Jane Ryan
Everywhere I turn, I hear people are overwhelmed. Married or single, with kids or not, working or not, people are struggling to keep their heads above the water of their lives. We're overwhelmed by our to-do lists, we're overwhelmed by all the information

Are You an HSP? Temperament, Love, and Sensitivity
The Highly Sensitive Person in Love: Understanding and Managing Relationships When the World Overwhelms You
by Elaine N. Aron, Ph.D.
I fall in love so damn hard. I feel like an alien sometimes. Everyone else seems to be in a relationship. But what they call love just doesn't appeal to me. Investments, cars, sports, getting ahead at work-I don't say it, but I've zero interest in those

Embracing All Our Selves
Embracing Our Selves: The Voice Dialogue Manual
by Drs. Hal and Sidra Stone
Despite a good deal of encouragement from many of those whom we have trained in our methods, we have consistently refused to institute any kind of formal certification training in regard to Voice Dialogue. We see the facilitator as a creative musician

Transformation Through Action
The Transformation Handbook
by Jan Maizler, MSW, LCSW
The core of transformation by action is the profound self-challenge that comes with recognizing our fears, realizing the costs of having avoided those fears, eliminating our fears against them, facing them, and conquering them. Our reflexive reaction

NLP: The psychology behind the success
by Peta Heskell
I always acknowledge and thank in my work the many people who have trained and helped me throughout my life. In particular one of the great backgrounds to my work is the psychology of NLP originated by Richard Bandler.

Hey Little Girl Is Your Daddy Home?
Bitch: In Praise of Difficult Women
by Elizabeth Wurtzel
Considering the accelerated aging process that wastes away and wears out Hollywood's sweet young things with a fast-forward so fast it's as if they were living in dog years (bitch years?), it almost seems reasonable that Polanski should be a sucker for

Simple Joys
by Leslie Karen Lobell, M.A.
Do you take time to appreciate the simple joys in life? Do you smile at the sun or sing in the rain? Do you feel the warm sand between your toes at the beach? Your attitude is the key to freeing yourself and allowing joy into your daily life.

The Primary Selves In Relationship
Embracing Our Selves: The Voice Dialogue Manual
by Drs. Hal and Sidra Stone
In every relationship there is a dance between the Primary and Disowned Selves. The understanding of this dance is critical to understanding the kind of parent/child bonding patterns that are with us constantly in relationship. These bonding patterns occu

Receptive To Bliss: Creating An Uncluttered Mind
by Debora Myers
Empty Your Mind - Go ahead, just try it. To become receptive to bliss we must gather and then dump all the clutter, static and mental lint that clings to our mind. It's kind of like cleaning out your closet in the fall to make room for the new

The Emergence Of Voice Dialogue
Embracing Our Selves: The Voice Dialogue Manual
by Drs. Hal and Sidra Stone
The discovery of the reality of these inner selves was quite dramatic for the two of us. Our relationship has always been one in which we spent a good deal of time doing personal work with one another. In one of our very early work sessions, Hal asked to

Take Command and Gain Freedom
by Terry Rich Hartley, Ph.D.
Bookstores are brimming with self-help books, so you're probably wondering what this book has to offer that others don't. The answer is that my approach is not just a variation of other books; it is fundamentally different. Look in any bookstore and you'l

Experiencing The Energy Of The Selves In The Aware Ego State
Embracing Our Selves: The Voice Dialogue Manual
by Drs. Hal and Sidra Stone
We want to mention one final part of the process which is quite sophisticated and requires real sensitivity to energetic changes. Let us say we have worked with an Action system on one side and a Being system on the other side. We have had the subject