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Jason McCarty
Nov 21, 20113 min read
Denial of Death
I am currently reading Ernest Becker’s revolutionary book, The Denial of Death. It has me thinking about many things: my own personal...
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Jason McCarty
Oct 24, 20114 min read
The Yin and Yang of Explanation and Experience
We all want an explanation for our lives, our behavior, our thoughts, and for how the world works. We search it out, we think about it,...
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Jason McCarty
Sep 26, 20114 min read
Therapy Is No Quick Fix
When I first started writing this column, part of my motivation was to bring more knowledge and understanding to the process of...
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Jason McCarty
Sep 5, 20116 min read
The Lost Generations
The Lost Generations: Function and Addiction in Generations X, Y, and Z. When I was working in a drug and alcohol treatment center, I...
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Jason McCarty
Aug 29, 20112 min read
De-Cluttering the Mind
What makes you feel simple and grounded? For me, it is the smell of the inside of a certain type of book, or watching my children play. ...
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Jason McCarty
Aug 15, 20112 min read
Waiting for Direction
Do we ever really know where we’re going? Many people come to therapy to figure out where they are going. It seems that some people...
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Jason McCarty
Aug 8, 20113 min read
The Lie of Psychotherapy
In any growth endeavor we can often feel that once we do the work and experience some healing, we’ll have arrived, living happily ever...
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Jason McCarty
Jul 26, 20113 min read
Environment
There are many philosophies to what contributes to our development. In the psychological world it is mostly focused on the internal life...
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Jason McCarty
Jun 13, 20112 min read
Four Noble Truths of Addiction
Buddhism is founded upon what Siddhartha Gautama realized were the four noble truths of human existence. I want to take those four noble...
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Jason McCarty
Jun 6, 20115 min read
Shame and Modern Thought
One could say that a huge reason people seek therapy or struggle in life is due to some aspect of shame. Shame is a sense that something...
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Jason McCarty
May 30, 20112 min read
When Things Are Going Well
Although there are many great aspects to psychology and psychotherapy, one pitfall is that sometimes we can get too focused on problem...
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Jason McCarty
May 16, 20113 min read
Feeling Stuck
Last week I wrote about change and how we need to take action in order to change. Sometimes change is also in how we see the world,...
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Jason McCarty
May 9, 20112 min read
You Have to Change to Change
One of my favorite authors, Irvin Yalom, MD, is a psychotherapist who has written a book entitled Existential Psychotherapy. I’m sure I...
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Jason McCarty
May 2, 20114 min read
Anxiety and Control
Anxiety is a complicated mental, emotional, and physical human experience. There is not usually one answer or cause to one’s experience...
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Jason McCarty
Apr 25, 20114 min read
Who are You?
So often in counselling/psychotherapy/social work and many self-help books, the focus is on “fixing” pathology. The focus is on...
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Jason McCarty
Apr 23, 20111 min read
Destroying Old Patterns
In a brief addendum to my last post on Addiction is Good For you, I would like to share a quote from Rollo May (1977) in his book, The...
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Jason McCarty
Apr 19, 20114 min read
Addiction is Good For You
I’ve written before on the idea that addiction can give a person reason to look more deeply into his/her life, resolving issues, hurts,...
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Jason McCarty
Apr 11, 20113 min read
Hope
Hope doesn’t seem to be a word we use much anymore – at least I haven’t used it much and I don’t hear others using it. I hear my...
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Jason McCarty
Dec 17, 20107 min read
The Unseen
I am struck by the impact of the unseen in our lives as human beings. I spend most of my time with clients talking about aspects of...
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Jason McCarty
Nov 29, 20103 min read
You Are Not Your Emotions
One thing the Eastern religions have given us in the West is a perspective that we are not our emotions, that we are the part that can...
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