by Snowman Therapist | May 23, 2016 | Behaviors, Feelings, Thoughts
“It is more rewarding to resolve a conflict than to dissolve a relationship.” – Josh McDowell In the process of teaching our graduate course in counseling theory, I re-encountered a term from Carl Gustav Jung. The word is “sygyzy,” and it has applications to...
by Snowman Therapist | Feb 26, 2016 | Behaviors, Feelings, Thoughts
I’m not concerned with your liking or disliking me… All I ask is that you respect me as a human being. Jackie Robinson A few days ago, news of the sudden death of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia hit the news. Literally within minutes, the loss of a...
by Snowman Therapist | Oct 20, 2015 | Behaviors, Feelings, Thoughts
As a young high school teacher, many years ago, I once made a highly unromantic observation to a class of senior psychology students. Attempting to make a point about relationships and stages of development, I observed the following: We will marry (or enter into a...
by Snowman Therapist | Oct 6, 2015 | Behaviors
“Commitment is doing the thing you said you were going to do —–long after the mood you said it in has left you.” anonymous Life is about choices. We face them everyday, but we also live with the ones that we made, perhaps years ago, and over the course of...
by Snowman Therapist | Sep 1, 2015 | Behaviors
Just remember, when you ignore your significant other (silent treatment), you are teaching them to live without you. Lighting the Fuse……And Dousing It A few newsletters ago, we spoke of “Joe the Doorman.” In that article, we discussed the relative...
by Snowman Therapist | Aug 12, 2015 | Behaviors, Feelings, Thoughts
To love a person is to see all of their magic, and to remind them of it when they have forgotten. When you take things for granted, the things you are granted, get taken. “Don’t Look Too Fast” Today, my lovely wife was having a bad day. Nothing major, she would...
