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Dreaming is like gazing into a mirror that looks into the future. Each time we step into the reflection, the image changes into a more real possibility. Mental health information from a licensed mental health professional.
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Dare To Dream

English - Depression, Anxiety, Mental Health
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Dare To Dream · 2M ago

Brene Brown: The power of vulnerability and shame

This is an updated post from another a year ago. Here a highly intellectually focused researcher who surprises herself and begins a process of transformation from valuing strength in stoicism to embracing vulnerability as the core of strength. The first video was recorded in 2010. The second was rel
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Dare To Dream · 4M ago

The Existential Experience of the Trauma Should Be the Focus of Treatment in PTSD

How we integrate or make sense of our experiences have a lot to do with how they affect us. That's just common sense. However, the drive within psychology towards a research and evidence based practice standards has led to a move away from seeking the consensus of practicing professionals in the fie
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Dare To Dream · 5M ago

Do We Control Our Emotions, Or Do Our Emotions Control Us?

Image via WikipediaIt's been standard practice in Cognitive-Behavioral therapy to teach clients that our thoughts trigger our emotions. Thus with training and practice a client can learn to change feelings by changing thoughts. While that is generally true, what CBT specialists sometimes miss is tha
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Dare To Dream · 5M ago

Why I Do This Work

I meet the most incredible people in my work. Struggle as they might with various vices like substance abuse, serial monogamy, stormy relationships or keeping a job, the people I've worked with consistently have a surplus of one thing I highly value: empathy.Image via WikipediaIt seems as if people
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Dare To Dream · 6M ago

Facebook Depression: Another Media Frenzy

I'm going to try to write more short posts rather than work on a big paper for months before I post.There is a lot of hype about Facebook causing depression citing research. Actually, if you look, you will find the research had nothing to do with Facebook.Image via CrunchBaseIt all started with this
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Dare To Dream · 8M ago

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Dare To Dream · 9M ago

Emotion Regulation: Emotional Intelligence for Personal Growth

This is the eighth in a series of articles about emotional intelligence for personal growth. Emotions give our experiences a sort of color, a dimension of experience very different from other senses, different from even thoughts. Yet many of us find our emotions at times more of an enemy than a frie
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Dare To Dream · 9M ago

The Death of Amy Winehouse

Tragically another music icon ends an incredibly creative life at age 27. Besides the uncanny fact that so many (10) incredibly talented musicians who died at 27, there is the other apparent truth that they all had everything their peers could have wanted. They were incredibly successful, had huge f
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Dare To Dream · 1Y ago

On Being Wrong

Arguments over who's right may be the most common topic of disagreement anywhere and by anybody. Check out the insights Kathryn Schulz, in her book, Being Wrong, has to offer.   Ms Schulz makes a compelling argument that being wrong is more valuable than being right. In fact, if one is too preoccupi
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Dare To Dream · 1Y ago

Can You Detect a Liar?

Cover of Attachment in PsychotherapyAsk a lie detector professional and you will get a positive answer. But its not as simple as knowing how to work the instrument. The instruments used by a lie detector professional basically measure anxiety and are very similar to the machines used in biofeedback.
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