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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
- Jul 18, 2011
- 5 min
Relationships for Adults
One area of relationships that I tend to help clients pay attention to is their own self in the relationship. We can often become quite...
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Jason McCarty
- Jun 13, 2011
- 2 min
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, 2011
- 5 min
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, 2011
- 2 min
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, 2011
- 3 min
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, 2011
- 2 min
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, 2011
- 4 min
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, 2011
- 4 min
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, 2011
- 1 min
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, 2011
- 4 min
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, 2011
- 3 min
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
- Jan 18, 2011
- 3 min
Addiction and Potential
The more I work with the phenomenon of addiction, the more fascinating it becomes as an extremely dynamic coping strategy – dynamic in...
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Jason McCarty
- Jan 3, 2011
- 4 min
I Don’t Love You Anymore
“I don’t love you anymore,” is a phrase that gets thrown around either in the middle of a deteriorating relationship or at the end. One...
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Jason McCarty
- Dec 18, 2010
- 7 min
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, 2010
- 3 min
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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Jason McCarty
- Nov 25, 2010
- 2 min
Acceptance and Change
Acceptance can be a very powerful approach or mindset to deal with suffering. It is not always about self-acceptance but overall...
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Jason McCarty
- Nov 23, 2010
- 4 min
Space and Place
An area of our lives that does not always get a lot of attention in the realms of psychology and spirituality is that of place. There...
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Jason McCarty
- Nov 19, 2010
- 5 min
Addiction in Relationships
I work with couples that are trying to mend their relationships after or during the impact of an addiction. There is a typical dance...
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Jason McCarty
- Nov 14, 2010
- 2 min
Emotional Sobriety
This week I wanted to share a book that can be quite helpful to those struggling to overcome addictions or to manage their more drastic...
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