Blog Articles
Additional resources written by our PCS therapists.
-
Educating our Children about Pornography: An Important Piece of Sex Education
Please watch the following New Zealand public health advertising campaign targeting pornography and kids: Porn ad designed to protect children Early in my career I did research about sex education. I learned that in the United States we are not doing a good job preparing our young people to make… -
Masks
We are talking only to ourselves. We are not talking to the rivers, we are not listening to the wind and the stars. We have broken the great conversations. By breaking the great conversations we have shattered the universe. All the disasters that are happening now are a consequence of… -
Perspective
I was much younger — much less patient. My oldest daughter was 4 years old. We were driving into a light rain in spite of a bright sun, running to the store after a particularly frustrating day. Turning a corner, stretching across the sky directly in front of us, was… -
Get On Up Or Get Down | Part B
Elijah Bedrosian, LPC, SEP speaks about “feeling better in ways that make more sense”. -
Reflections on the 12th Step
Series One: Blog Seventy-Three “Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these Steps, we tried to carry this message to others, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.” I grew up in an evangelical cult. Not all churches that are evangelical are cult. But, mine was…. -
Shame Stalking
Series One: Blog Seventy-Two “A dysfunctional family is any family with more than one person in it” — Mary Karr “In troubled families abuse and neglect are permitted, it’s the talking about them that is forbidden” I had been told more than once to not live my life with my… -
Healing Requires Holding Your Feet to the Fire When the Heat Is Turned Up
Series One: Blog Seventy-One Most folks are tired of the COVID pandemic with predictions of a third epidemic wave this Fall. Everybody has an opinion about the value a mask for protection. Over 200 thousand Americans are dead and millions are left without work waiting for the House, the Senate… -
Sabotage: Feeling Good about Feeling Bad
Series One: Blog Seventy “I decry the injustice of my wounds, only to look down and see that I am holding a smoking gun in one hand and a fistful of ammunition in the other.” ― Craig D. Lounsbrough I played one year of football in high school. It was… -
Feeling Like a Fraud— No one Wants to be an Imposter
Series One: Blog Sixty-Nine “All my friends thought I was a very happy human being. Because that’s how I acted- like a really happy human being. But all that pretending made me tired. If I acted the way I felt, then I doubt my friends would have really hung out… -
Finding a Safe Place When Your World Falls Apart
Series One: Blog Sixty-Eight What is a Safe Place to Me?A place where my head restsAnd my heart feels,Where the mask I wear,Falls awayA place I feel grounded,In my chaotic life.Where if only for a moment,I feel happy.A place wherethe smile on my face isn’t fake.Where I feel a part… -
The Power of Your Personal Story
Series One: Blog Sixty-Seven “Nothing is more healing than your personal story” My older brother grew up pretending he was dog. Getting down on his hands and knees, he and his buddy Delmar Stone would chase cars like dogs do until one day his shirt got caught on the bumper… -
Intolerance
Series One: Blog Sixty-Six “Intolerance is itself a form of violence and an obstacle to the growth of a true democratic spirit.”–Mahatma Gandhi “Honesty gets us sober, but tolerance keeps ups sober”-Bill Wilson Intolerance is the great debacle of our times. People who struggle to accept their own weakness, flaws,… -
Radical Forgiveness
Series One: Blog Sixty-Five “Forgiveness is not easy. At times, it 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 There are times that the act of forgiveness seems absurd. A year or so… -
Compassion: Transforming Good for Nothing into Good for Something in You
Series One: Blog Sixty-Four “The problem in the world is that we have forgotten that we all belong to each other” Mother Teresa On a hot summer day in Charleston, South Carolina the temperature was approaching 95 degrees with typical Carolina humidity. It was miserable. To make the misery worse… -
Reimagining Recovery
Series One: Blog Sixty-Three “After a cruel childhood, one must reinvent oneself. Then reimagine the world.” ― Mary Oliver Recovery is about reimagining the personal reality in the world you live. “The first step towards reimagining a world gone terribly wrong would be to stop the annihilation of those who… -
Curse or Blessing–the Transformative Metaphor Every Addict Encounters
Series One: Blog Sixty-Two Meaningful insights in recovery addiction often surface in paradoxical metaphors. “To be in control you must let go”; “in order to win you must lose”; “To know God you must be willing to embrace what you don’t know”— are common anomalies that contain significant wisdom and… -
Recovery Requires Facing the Standard Stock Every Day White Bread Moments of Life
Series One: Blog Sixty-One “I’ve been to the bottom and I’ve been to the top and peace will come from somewhere else”—Aaron Rodgers, Green Bay Packer quarterback A few months ago I completed a book entitled Dare to Be Average: Finding Brilliance in the Commonplace. I wrote it because I… -
Living in Consultation with Accountability while embracing Consequences: Core components toward Relapse Prevention
Series One: Blog Sixty Addicts who seek recovery want to stop their destructive behavior. The physical and emotional pain, the hollow loneliness and despair is no longer worth the effort to spin the lies that are needed for one more trip around the track of getting high on whatever drug… -
The Face of Fear
Series One: Blog Fifty-Nine “More than anything, fear blinds, and only by stepping without hesitation into the next inch of the unknown, can we build confidence in the life we are about to live” — Mark Nepo Fear of the dark is a prevailing experience among many people. It is… -
Dancing with Addictive Intrigue
Series One: Blog Fifty-Eight “Intrigue is a drunken dreamland- with bewitching charm — It fades connection—pushes peace so far away-Ecstasy eats at reality —Undaunted enchantment numbs with empty possibilityPlaying charades all over again—drags me back to where I started my day. Like a hard-nosed hound, the lion never ends its chaseIt…
Subscribe and thrive.
Subscribe to receive the latest stories, thought leadership, and growth strategies from PCS therapists.