Patrick Reeves, Marriage and Family Therapist

08/11/2021

Truth from Sue Johnson:

https://www.facebook.com/drsuejohnson/posts/375708147261603

09/19/2020

Tim Ferriss on healing from childhood trauma, with an extensive set of links and resources.

For me, this is the most important podcast episode I’ve ever published. In it, I describe the most life-shaping, certainly the most difficult, and certainly the most transformative journey of my 43…

08/08/2020

A couple years old, but even more relevant right now.

A nationwide survey by health insurer Cigna finds that loneliness is widespread in America. Millennials and people in Generation Z tend to feel lonelier than retirees.

07/17/2020

"You also need to be vigilant of the current environment in many schools that, with the best of intentions, deprives students of age-appropriate challenges or responsibilities. Use your influence to encourage teachers and schools to continue to set tasks that develop students’ maturity and resilience."

Put that helicopter back in the hangar and let your children find their own way. Their independence will likely surprise you

07/14/2020

“On a collective level,” Hollis writes, “our culture’s treatment plans for the absence of a personal, intimate relationship with the gods are materialism, hedonism, narcissism and nationalism, as well as a coursing nostalgia for a world that never really existed. Our contemporary Odysseys are redirected to the Apple Store, the palliative pharmacy, or forays along the River Amazon Prime. Guided by Google, whereby all things are knowable, we wonder why we are so absent-spirited, so lost, and so adrift. We may say that these secular surrogates, these ‘isms,’ constitute our values, our de facto religions, those in which we most invest our energies. But we have to ask the obvious question, ‘How well are are they working for us?’”

There’s never a bad time for finding wisdom that heals our wounds and helps us chart a path through the rough patches of life, but so far, 2020 seems an uncommonly rich opportunity for us to plumb …

07/14/2020

I currently see clients online through a secure video platform or by phone, with availability throughout the week. Issues we can work with range form dealing with anxiety, depression, life transitions, religion and spirituality, and relationship issues

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07/09/2020

http://ralockhart.com/WP/2020/07/09/why-not-ask-for-a-dream/

Here is a new essay by blog member Dr. George Mecouch author of While Psychiatry Slept: Reawakening the Imagination in Therapy. [This book is available at Amazon using this link: ] In this essay, t…

06/22/2020

http://www.thisjungianlife.com/episode-116-finding-resilience-a-conversation-with-jim-hollis/

James Hollis, noted Jungian scholar, teacher and author, joined us to discuss resilience. His new book, Living Between Worlds: Finding Personal Resilience in Changing Times, will be available on Amazon in mid-June.

06/19/2020

I currently see clients dealing with anxiety, life transitions and adjustment, and relationship issues online through a secure video platform or by phone, with availability throughout the week.

You are welcome to message me or call to set up a 15 minute free consultation to see if we might be a good fit.

05/17/2020

Without consciously deciding to, you can even get “attached” to feelings you haven’t resolved. But if you become aware of the exorbitantly high costs of not acknowledging, and working through, these feelings, you’ll realize that heedlessly clinging to them hasn’t at all contributed to your welfare. Quite the opposite.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/evolution-the-self/201606/you-only-get-more-what-you-resist-why

Our eyes, gestures, and tone bring us together in a more profound way than words alone. It’s why we look hopefully toward the return of in-person, face-to-face connection.