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Suffering and Happiness- Say What Again?!?
New year, new resolve! It is time again for resolutions and for most of us, we have the usual goal, lose weight, exercise more, eat healthier, or may be stop our vices, stop smoking or drinking, and so on and on…. As for me, my New Year’s resolution is to be happier. So, I set…
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Virtual Meetup
Unlock Your Potential as a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with FullerRelationships! Are you a licensed psychotherapist in private practice, feeling the challenges of isolation and navigating the business side of your profession? At FullerRelationships, we understand the unique struggles you face and are here to guide you on a transformative journey. Why Join FullerRelationships?…
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The Porcupine Dilemma: On Becoming Relational
Most likely, you have not met Arthur Schopenhauer, but for sure all of you know Sigmund Freud. Although we all know Freud as the father of psychology, in managing our relationships, I believe we would be better served in getting to know Arthur Schopenhauer. THE PSYCHOLOGY OF ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERSchopenhauer was known to be the father…
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Storytelling and Psychotherapy
Shhh…The Secret of Psychotherapy and Storytelling Judge, jury, executioner…aka couples therapist! Couples who come in to see me tell their stories with one question in mind, “am I right or am I wrong?” with the hope that I will “rule” in their favor and support them in their bid to be right. So these couples…
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Relationship SMARTs
S.M.A.R.T! It’s an acronym for Small Measurable Achievable Relevant Time-Limited – SMART. Similar mnemonics are applied to all sorts of process flow studies, but how about applying it to a relationship?! It’s a suggestion found in Harville Hendrix and Helen LaKelly Hunt’s “Getting the Love You Want” book on Imago Therapy. Try this surprisingly effective…
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To Be Or Not To Be Filipino: Parenting Challenges In The U.S.
The following is a letter I received from a reader: Dear Gale, I am 52 years old and have been in the States for 3 years now. I am married with one daughter who is 13 years old. I read your article on teenagers and wanted to see if you can help us with this…
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The Filipino Story: The Choices We Make
Once upon a time, there was a Filipina nurse who decided that she would go to the States so she could earn enough money to improve the quality of life for her family. She knew that if she were to stay in the Philippines her family would have to live a hand-to-mouth existence. If she…
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Don’t buy into the BS of a Pandemic
These days, everything that we know has been changed and upended, with the future basically uncertain and unknown. Uncertainty and the unknown are already very much anxiety-provoking, add to it, feeling out-of-control and helpless. Therefore, what to do? First: Breathe…seriously. Because this needs to be our reaction to a situation that is not an emergency…
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East VS West
Saccharine is an artificial sweetener which when used to describe a person implies that the person is sweet but artificial, *while sarcasm is defined to be a form of humor that uses irony or mockery with the purpose of indirect criticism. In my opinion, this comparison embodies the basic differences in my own intercultural relationship,…
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A Couple O’ Differences In Gender
In the beginning there was man and a woman. In some circles they were known as Adam and Eve, and the world was never the same again. In fact eons later we are still struggling with the differences in gender. Nowadays research has proven what we have known all along, that men operate differently than…
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