The Importance of Understanding Loyalty Contracts
How does someone break free of an internalized system of beliefs, feelings, reactions, and expectations that were created and deeply rooted in early parent-child interactions?
How We Perceive Aging
The PBS program entitled “Sages of Aging,” features 12 experts in the field of aging coming together to discuss the state of aging in America and discuss the state of aging in America and how we perceive aging.
The Idea of Loyalty
Examining the idea of loyalty and framing that understanding through the lens of, “Loyalty Contracts.”
How Cultural Marginalization Enforces Unfair Loyalty Contracts
In Patricia Gianotti’s third book, Embracing Therapeutic Complexity, she talks about the powerful grip that unfair loyalty contracts have on people throughout their life span.
The Definition of Narcissism
A working definition of narcissism begins by inviting people to pause, and think about narcissism as a condition of vulnerability or injury, rather than thinking about narcissism as a “diagnosis.”
Let’s Stop Using Narcissism As a Four-Letter Word
Have you noticed that the word narcissist has morphed into a term of derision and contempt that is easily thrown around at will? But how many people really understand where the term comes from or what it means?
When I’m Disappointed...
Disappointments happen in life. If we’re smart, we can learn from them. With enough distance, disappointments that initially feel crushing often turn out to be life lessons.