All Things Psychological
Posted in love relationship on Nov 30th, 2009
Affective relationships give us a sense of purpose and provide added meanings to our lives, actions, and choices, as they create powerful motivations to set and pursue goals which aim is that of maintaining them. They affect us deeply, offering us opportunities to feel and express emotions that come from our universal need to be [...]
Posted in brain and mind, stress management on Nov 19th, 2009
When Parents don’t approve of their Children’s Significant Others
We all like others, particularly our loved ones, to approve of our choices of intimate partners, because these are a reflection on who we are. At the other end, parents often have ideas of who their children should choose as life partners. When children’s choices and parents’ [...]
Posted in brain and mind, stress management on Nov 17th, 2009
Mental silence is a state of calm that we reach when we stop the noise and quiet our minds.
Mental silence requires not only external silence, but also inner quiet. Oftentimes we have internal conversations about how we handled something, or what we should have done about a certain decision, or we cheer ourselves for having [...]
Posted in intimacy, love relationship, stress management on Oct 30th, 2009
What happens to couples when they are forced by external circumstances to live together? How does this situation affect each partner and their children, if couples have children? I suggest that, rather than fighting their situation – which does not solve the problem anyway – couples should face what is happening to them, understand how [...]
Posted in stress management on Oct 25th, 2009
The current recession in the US presents some unique challenges to couples. This is due to a very specific set of circumstances that came together in the past two years, particularly in the Southwest and in Florida. Adding to job loss and depletion of savings, couples in these parts of the country had the added [...]
Posted in intimacy, love relationship on Oct 16th, 2009
A lot has been written on the various areas of our lives affected by the current economic recession. One area that deserves attention, albeit not as immediately identifiable as others, is that of intimate relationships. When under a lot of stress, intimate relationships often cease to be haven from the storm, and can become the [...]
Posted in stress management, women's issues on Oct 11th, 2009
In the previous post of our discussion on women’s increasing unhappiness trends, we discussed how women’s anger gets neither acknowledged nor expressed, because we have internalized societal expectations of what our responsibilities are. When we cannot meet our/society’s expectations, therefore, we feel inadequate and unhappy rather than angry.
As a psychotherapist, I see this situation often [...]
Posted in stress management on Oct 2nd, 2009
Arianna Huffington, published an article in the Huffington Post on 9/17/09 titled “The Sad, Shocking Truth about how Women are Feeling.” Huffington discusses the multiple reasons that contribute to the current increased feelings of unhappiness in women vis-à-vis men, as reported by the United States General Social Survey. According to this survey, women’s unhappiness seems [...]
Posted in stress management on Sep 4th, 2009
We are all in this together
What are the changes that we are starting to see in our society, in the midst of the current economic downturn?
A shift in the value of money. Some of us seem to have changed the way we deal with money. We are saving more; we are looking for bargains; we [...]
Posted in stress management on Sep 2nd, 2009
We are all familiar by now with the most evident repercussions of this economic recession: loss of jobs, foreclosures, loss of savings, increased debt, and panic on Wall Street and Main Street.
Aside from these evident effects, there are others, more hidden but more insidious, which affect people caught in this economic downturn. These make up [...]
