Personality

Changing the way you look at Yourself

Day by day, the majority of us have a painful war with ourselves. It is a constant fight that includes constant criticism, pressure, anger, sadness and endless cruel comparisons. It is an everyday struggle that gets in the way and keeps you from seeing yo

Overcoming Self-Doubt
by Crystal Woods
Do you have a dream of something you would love to do, achieve, or be? Are you chasing it? What's holding you back? It's hard, sometimes, to believe in your ability to be or do everything you dream about. Even the most determined person has their d

Maintaining Your Individuality in Love
by Paul Mauchline
Mature love is a partnership in which both individuals have room to be themselves even while being together. Do not give up your own dreams and goals for the sake of a relationship. Mature love requires giving your love with no strings attached

Self-Love : Is It Selfish?
by Leslie Karen Lobell, M.A.
Is self-love the Greatest Love of All? Or is it selfish and self-indulgent? Learning to love yourself may be the greatest love you ever experience and achieve. Self-love is not selfish or bad. When you love yourself, you will feel good about

The Elements of Personality
The Color Code
by Taylor Hartman, Ph.D.
Every child is born with a unique set of personality traits. Ask any woman who has given birth to two or more children and she will attest to the fact that while still in the womb her children showed marked differences in their behavior.

Our Definition Of Consciousness
Embracing Our Selves: The Voice Dialogue Manual
by Drs. Hal and Sidra Stone
The first point to consider is that consciousness is a process, not a static entity. There are three distinct levels or processes that make up the basic process of consciousness. The three levels are : The Awareness Process; the Experiential Process; the

The Gender Myth, The World of Personality Type
Just Your Type : Create the Relationship You've Always Wanted Using the Secrets of Personality Type
by Paul D. Tieger, Barbara Barron-Tieger
There's no denying that those who espouse the viewpoint that gender is an inevitable barrier to good communication have struck a chord with millions of people who are frustrated with the way they deal with their partners.

Selves In Relationship: Mapping the Bonding Patterns
by Drs. Hal and Sidra Stone
As a therapist how does one approach this? First, we would like to reiterate our view that this is a perfectly natural interaction in relationship. There is nothing pathological in this bonding pattern and much can be learned in terms of both relationship

Embracing Our Dark Side
Do I Have To Give Up ME to be Loved by GOD?
by Margaret Paul, Ph.D.
Our wounded self is our dark or shadow side, not because it is bad but because it is cut off from the light of God. It lives in the darkness of fear and the heaviness of false beliefs instead of in the light of love and truth. Moving toward enlighte

The Principles of Personality Type
The Art of Speed Reading People: How To Size People Up and Speak Their Language
by Paul D. Tieger, Barbara Barron-Tieger
People come in all shapes and sizes, and, certainly, every person is unique. But you'll probably agree that some people are much more alike than others. And behavior that may seem random is, in fact, quite understandable and often even predictable

The Dance Of The Selves In Relationship
by Drs. Hal and Sidra Stone
There is a natural ebb and flow in relationship, a movement between intimacy and distance. Even the most ideal relationships have moments in which intimacy is interrupted and good will is in short supply. As we studied the rhythms of relationship

Assessing Your Colors
Living Your Colors: Practical Wisdom for Life, Love, Work and Play
by Tom Maddron
The key to your secret self is just an easy quiz away. Take the Color Test to identify your dominant color and open the door to amazing new insights about how you handle work, family, and romance. Based on a synergistic combination of ancient wisdom

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

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

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

Thinker or Feeler: A Matter of Principles or Values
The Art of Speed Reading People: How To Size People Up and Speak Their Language
by Paul D. Tieger, Barbara Barron-Tieger
While Sensing and Intuition describe the different ways people take in information, Thinking and Feeling describe the very different ways people make decisions, or come to conclusions. Clearly, each of us has the ability to make a decision based on logic

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

Love, American Idol Style
by Lisa Daily
Does the American Idol judge we like the most hold some clue as to the kind of people we're most attracted to? I asked around, and the favorite judge VS. potential mate answers were surprisingly accurate. Below is the Love Life Idol-ometer

Selves In Relationship : Working With the Bonding Patterns
by Drs. Hal and Sidra Stone
Relationships challenge us to grow. Each relationship carries within it the guidance for our further development and growth as well as the seeds of its own destruction. We as therapists are in the position to move deeply into the mysteries and complexitie