Blog Articles
Additional resources written by our PCS therapists.
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Spirituality – A Concept of Connection
Series Two: Blog Five Addicts who enter a 12-step community for recovery often struggle with the concept of God or Higher Power. Those who are religious often struggle with mistaken beliefs marred by shameful teaching or personalize their perceptions of the concept of God with their relationship with their parents… -
Belonging
Series Two: Blog Four Everybody needs a place to call home–a place to feel safe and to feel they belong. Old war veterans seek this experience at the V.F.W. Some golf cronies pursue it at the country club. Ball players who retire from their sport reminisce about the camaraderie of… -
Cooperation Not Competition
Series Two: Blog Three Competition is revered throughout the world by many. To be a fierce competitor is considered a favorable trait. In sports individuals are judged by the kind of competitive spirit they demonstrate. Men who do not have a competitive spirit are considered less macho by many. Some… -
The Unencumbered Being
Series Two: Blog Two “So often we make a commitment to change our ways, but stall in the face of old reflexes as new situations arise.”— Mark Nepo Living in sobriety requires a willingness to make adjustments. We tend to cling to old patterns of living. We are creatures of… -
Going Deep – Embracing Tolerance and Forgiveness
Series Two: Blog One “Forgiveness is not always easy. At times, if feels more painful than the wound we suffered, to forgive the one that inflicted it. And yet, there is no peace without forgiveness” — Marianne Williamson During these times in our country, tolerance is becoming a rare commodity… -
I Don’t Care | Part B
Elijah Bedrosian, LPC, SEP discusses relationships and tools to deal with overwhelm. -
The Stories I Tell Myself
Within each of us are volumes and volumes of stories we have collected about ourselves, others, and the world around us. These stories are created in our mind by our ego in the form of constant and continuous thoughts. The term ego is often used in very different ways. Here… -
Dealing with our imperfections, problems, and failures.
— By Agustin Hubert How many of us are trying to find perfection? How many of us have problems? How many of us fail often? If you are anything like me, your answer to one (or more) of the opening questions is a loud and clear “of course!”. If so,… -
An Alternative Approach to the 12 Steps
Series One: Blog One Hundred “We took the position that AA was not the final word on treatment; that I might be only the first word.” — Bill W. The 12-step program is legendary to the emancipation of literally millions of addicts. Dr. Bob and Bill W. are iconic examples… -
Living With Loss–The Discomfort of Grief
Series One: Blog Ninety-Nine “Grief Changes Shape, but it never ends”- Keanu Reeves Reeves’ reflection is hard to live with but has been true in my life of recovery. I have learned that I do not have to wallow daily in the overwhelming experience of grief. I have discovered that… -
Thresholds Don’t Go Anywhere
Series One: Blog Ninety-Eight “We shall not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.”- T.S. Eliot Thresholds indicate a point of beginning. I will never forget when I stepped across the threshold… -
Belonging and Finding Place
Series One: Blog Ninety-Seven “All things are connected like the blood that unites us all. When the last red man has vanished with this wilderness, and his memory is only the shadow of a cloud moving across the prairie…Will there be any of the spirit of my people left? One… -
Healing Fractured Moments of Life
Series One: Blog Ninety-Six Tomorrow is the inauguration of a new president. Events foreshadowing inaugural ceremony have been unprecedented. Beliefs about the veracity of the election have been skewed with claims from many that the counting of votes has been fraudulent. Many do not believe that the election officials and… -
I Don’t Care
Elijah Bedrosian discusses rejection and managing overwhelm. -
Making Sense of It All: Understanding Sexual and Gender Expression
I am an out and proud masculine cis gendermonogamous kink-friendly gay man.Who are you? We live in a world that is increasingly open to non-mainstream forms of gender and sexual expression. We talk about gender-neutral bathrooms and gender pronouns and watch movies like 50 Shades of Gray which address forms… -
Invisible Wounds
Trauma is an interesting phenomenon because, while most individuals have lived through life-impacting negative experiences, many who seek psychotherapy services–and perhaps even more who don’t–either believe they have never experienced trauma, or the trauma(s) they did experience are so ancient they can’t possibly be relevant today. So how can it… -
Embracing the New (for Now) Normal
As the saying goes, being in a committed partnership means: “for better and for worse.” What it also means is: “for different”. With the ups and downs of this last year, it’s likely that you may have experienced all three. Within a short period of time, you and your partner… -
The Practice of Compassion
Series One: Blog Ninety-Five We know that someone like Michael Jordan trained for years to get as good at basketball as he was, but we assume someone like Mother Teresa was just born like that. Really, compassion is a skill you need to practice having for other people and also… -
Bitter or Better? Living in the Broken Places of Life
People with disabilities are often professors to the world regarding coming to terms with broken places in life. We all experience broken places in our lives — some less obvious than others, some less socially judged than others. Yet brokenness and limitation are universal challenges all humanity must face. When… -
RESOLVED
New Year’s Eve is infamous for announcing New Years’ resolutions. This tradition goes all the way back to the Babylonians some 4000 years ago when they first began celebrating a New Year. Traditionally, the week between Christmas and New Year’s is a time for thinking about one’s past mistakes and…
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