About Patricia O'Gorman, PhD
http://www.patriciaogorman.com;http://thepowerfulwoman.net
Patricia A. O'Gorman, Ph.D., is a psychologist in private practice. She is noted for her work on women, trauma, and substance abuse and for her warm, inspiring, and amusing presentations that make complex issues accessible and even fun. She has served as a consultant to organizations across the country in preventative and clinical strategic planning. Dr. O'Gorman is a cofounder of the National Association for Children of Alcoholics, and she has held positions ranging from director of a rape crisis center to clinical director of a child welfare agency, and director of the division of prevention for the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA). She is a veteran of numerous television appearances, including Good Morning America, Today, and AM Sunday and is the author of eight books including: The Girly Thoughts 10 Day Detox Plan (2014), The Resilient Woman: Mastering the 7 Steps to Personal Power (2013), and Healing Trauma Through Self-Parenting (2012) 12 Steps to Self-Parenting.
The more you engage and connect, the more engagement and connections you will have. ―Loren Weisman A common theme in psychotherapy sessions is connection. Women share that they want more connection, particularly with their intimate partners. But the way many women go about this is often self-defeating because they feel they need to fix some …
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being desirable, connection, dogs, girly thoughts, healing from trauma, intimacy, oxytocin, puppies, sex, sexual intimacy, Veterans, Walter Reed Medical Center, women and hormones, women in psychotherapy
Saturday night, I literally fell asleep tweeting. I woke up after six hours and began tweeting again. This is not me. Why did this happen? I was pumped. I was tweeting about Josh Duggar and his sisters. I tweeted my outrage and my concern for the increasing number of sexual abuse survivors who are screaming …
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abuse disclosures discounted, being second best, damage done by sexual abuse, family messages, girly thoughts, incest, JoshDuggar, JoshDuggar and his sisters, media stories blaming women, not as valuable as a man, not sleeping, sexual abuse, toxic self-talk, Twitter, voice your concern, women being treated as less than
I met Roseanna recently when I gave a talk at a university. She remembered that I asked women to share their girly thoughts, an obnoxious term I coined to describe that toxic, inner self-talk that plagues and disempowers women. Roseanna’s Contribution Roseanna send me a poem she wrote about her sister, …
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being afraid, being afraid being alone with teachers, books club, condoms not fitting, creative writing, gender studies, girly thoughts, having a sister, management meeting, Michelle Sohn, needing to be attractive, Roseanna Boswell, Sexual Assault, sixteen
Sometimes we need a study to prove something we have known for a very long time—that we have been feeling bad about ourselves for as long as we can remember. Read it and Weep In an article originally published in Eating Disorders: The Journal of Treatment & Prevention and blogged about by …
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"depression", Addiction, anger in women, book clubs, dieting, feeling bad about yourself, girly thoughts, grief, hope in taking charge of your thinking, hormonal changes, impossible images of perfection, over eating, over-drinking, self-sabotage, speaking to girls in your family, too much wine, weight concern in childhood, working a second shift at home
“This is who I am and look at me not being perfect! I’m proud of that.” —Kate Winslet Girly thoughts are the way you internalize society’s messages about how you should look and should feel. They affect you on many levels, from the way you speak and write about yourself on …
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body acceptance, Cassey Ho, changing your breasts, changing your eyes, changing your thighs, cyber-bullying, girly thoughts, kate winslet, self-acceptance, toxic self-talk, women empowerment, women's empowerment, working out
I’m returning to the scene of the crime (the city I grew up in), New York City, to speak to fellow psychologists, and I’m inviting you to join me! Why? Because as women we all have girly thoughts, and together we can learn to identify them as well as strategize ways to eliminate them. I …
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bad hair day, being 'unfeminine', being a 'good girl', being nice, corporate speaking, embracing your inner business woman, girly thoughts, legacy of women being less than, naming a stressor, new york city, nys psychological association, nys psychological association division of women's issues, professional speaking, psychologists, publishing, social media, toxic self-talk
“If your dreams do not scare you, they are not big enough.” —Ellen Johnson Sirleaf I was walking my dog this morning when a neighbor asked me where I’ve been. “I didn’t see you last week,” she offered. “I was in Nebraska,” I proudly shared, “in the land of strong prairie women, …
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dream big, girly thoughts; trauma and addictions; public speaking, Nebraska; anxiety, public speaking and anxiety; Harold Reutter; strong women; strong doesn't mean unfeminine, The Independent; grand Island, walking your dog
“You are imperfect, permanently and inevitably flawed. And you are beautiful.” —Amy Bloom Beauty should be painful? Really? It is amazing how powerful our girly thoughts are . . .yes, those thoughts that tell us we have to live up to a certain societal standard if we want to be desirable, no matter …
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ab workout, beauty is pain, eating healthily, exercise, foot binding, French court, girly thoughts, needing to look beautiful, Nina Bahadur, pain killers, painful beauty, rib removal, stress eating, Victorian Era, waist training
I am sitting in the living room of a friend who is playing the piano, looking out on the snowy April landscape. She is relaxed; her home is immaculate, which wouldn’t be a cause for surprise except for the fact that she is on day 55 without water. Yes, without water. In this mountainous …
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being frozen, girly thoughts, harsh winter, laundromat, living in mountains, livings without water, no water, oil companies, small towns, stopping self-sabotage, taking clean clothes for granted, toxic self-talk, washing your cloths, washing your hair, women musicians
