Did you do your homework? From the first article on Modifying Behavior in 8 weeks, we talked about the stages of change: pre-contemplation, contemplation, determination/preparation, action, and relapse-maintenance. Some people get stuck at pre-contemplation, others take years to contemplate, and many, many others progress to the stage of relapse-maintenance where…
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Valentine’s Day I abhor the season. Flowers. Chocolates. Dinners. Fancy-nancy, overrated, season of “love”. Valentine’s Day brings to mind the awkward giving of flowers, the crinkle of plastic when you walk, girls carrying identical bunches of roses on the street, and men having the hardest time of all to decide…
Comments closed8 Music generally comes in 8. A four-four pattern in a bar (not a drinking one) that leads your drumbeats, aerobic classes, or prelude before dancing where the instructor goes “5, 6, 7-and-8!”. We’re advised to sleep 8 hours, drink 8 glasses of water a day. Abs comes in an…
Comments closedI help you, you help me The idea of codependence is an affront to most people: I behave like this because I LOVE HIM/HER, and they wouldn’t function so well without me, and get this…They need me! I find a definition online (goodtherapy.org) a little elementary, “Codependency involves sacrificing one’s personal…
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