The following is a guest post from Mark Hochwender, excerpted from Sweet Fruit from the Bitter Tree, available from Real People Press or Amazon.com. Internal Garden I work as a therapist, and my experience is that all successful therapy is the resolution or transformation of conflict within the self. One day I got a call [...]

Many approaches to therapy are purely, or mostly, reactive. The classic example is Freud’s analytic method of sitting behind the couch out of sight of the client, quietly listening, and only occasionally making interpretations about what the client says. Carl Rogers listened and reflected back the words and feelings that clients expressed, in what was [...]

The following is a guest post from Andrew T. Austin. I once met a very distressed lady on the first morning of a workshop. Prior to the workshop she had been to see her doctor, and I imagine she looked just as distressed when he saw her as when I saw her. “I’m feeling very [...]

Christmastime is a difficult time for many, as holiday hopes and spirit sometimes collides with reality when connecting with relatives and friends. This post may be a bit long, particularly with everything else on your plate this season, but I think it may help you thread your way through the labryinth. In my book, Transforming [...]

“One of the most important functions of the mind is to transform hindsight into foresight.” Recently I carefully reviewed my book Transforming Your Self: becoming who you want to be, in order to prepare it to become an e-book. (Now available on Amazon Kindle.) I came across a section on guilt and values conflicts that [...]