By Patricia O’Gorman, PhD Author of The Girly Thoughts 10-Day Detox Plan: The Resilient Woman’s Guide to Saying NO to Negative Self-Talk and YES to Personal Power (publication date 10.28.14) The Resilient Woman: Mastering the 7 Steps to Personal Power (2013) Healing Trauma Through Self-Parenting—The Codependency Connection (2012) Our girly thoughts …
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Living Without Girly Thoughts? See How This Can Literally Look
August 21st, 2014 | Posted by in Adolescents' Issues | Body Image | Girly Thoughts | Women's Issues - (Comments Off on Living Without Girly Thoughts? See How This Can Literally Look)How Your girly thoughts Make You Ask– Am I Pretty Enough?
August 19th, 2014 | Posted by in Adolescents | Adolescents' Issues | Body Image | Girly Thoughts | Parenting | Women's Issues - (Comments Off on How Your girly thoughts Make You Ask– Am I Pretty Enough?)By Patricia O’Gorman, PhD Author of The Girly Thoughts 10-Day Detox Plan: The Resilient Woman’s Guide to Saying NO to Negative Self-Talk and YES to Personal Power (publication date 10.28.14) The Resilient Woman: Mastering the 7 Steps to Personal Power (2013) Healing Trauma Through Self-Parenting—The Codependency Connection (2012) …
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Issues with Diagnosing Female Sex and Love Addicts
August 18th, 2014 | Posted by in Sex Addiction - (Comments Off on Issues with Diagnosing Female Sex and Love Addicts)Much of the time, female sexual addicts are more difficult to diagnose and therefore treat than male sexual addicts. This may be due in large part to our Western socio-cultural attitudes about sexuality among women. Whereas men who have a lot of sex are often celebrated as “studs” and “players,” hypersexual women are typically denigrated …
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Getting Married? Don’t Say I Do to Your Girly Thoughts
August 14th, 2014 | Posted by in Body Image | Family Issues | Girly Thoughts | Relationships | Women's Issues - (Comments Off on Getting Married? Don’t Say I Do to Your Girly Thoughts)By Patricia O’Gorman, PhD Author of The Girly Thoughts 10-Day Detox Plan: The Resilient Woman’s Guide to Saying NO to Negative Self-Talk and YES to Personal Power (publication date 10.28.14) The Resilient Woman: Mastering the 7 Steps to Personal Power (2013) Healing Trauma Through Self-Parenting—The Codependency Connection (2012) …
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Are Sex Addicts Also Sex Offenders?
August 8th, 2014 | Posted by in Sex Addiction - (Comments Off on Are Sex Addicts Also Sex Offenders?)Today, as the trauma-based neurobiological problem of sexual addiction becomes more universally understood and accepted, sexual offenders who’ve been arrested for illegal sexual activity sometimes grasp at the “sex addiction” label, hoping to use it as an excuse for their behavior. One of the most egregious examples of this was Ariel Castro, the Ohio man …
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Your mind leads your Qi
August 8th, 2014 | Posted by in EnerQi Connection | Integrative Living - (Comments Off on Your mind leads your Qi)Life can be, like a roller coaster ride; Up one day, down the next. Act from your inner center. Whether things go well for you or ill, reflect: All things must change. As you learn to execute control of your mind and emotions, you will begin to understand that nothing in the universe remains …
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Is This Love?—No, It’s a Girly Thought!
August 7th, 2014 | Posted by in Girly Thoughts | Women's Issues - (Comments Off on Is This Love?—No, It’s a Girly Thought!)By Patricia O’Gorman, PhD Author of The Girly Thoughts 10-Day Detox Plan: The Resilient Woman’s Guide to Saying NO to Negative Self-Talk and YES to Personal Power (publication date 10.28.14) The Resilient Woman: Mastering the 7 Steps to Personal Power (2013) So Ray Rice says he’s sorry, and it’s all okay? Not …
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The Half-Lived Life: Part II
July 31st, 2014 | Posted by in Relationships | Therapy | Trauma - (Comments Off on The Half-Lived Life: Part II)The half-lived life is really organized and supervised, and it is the domain of “The False Self” or our Persona, which is the Greek word for mask. It was responsible for negotiating the first part of your life, not without some losses, pain, a few broken hearts and many broken promises. It protected you and …
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Intimate Conversations from the Treatment Room
July 29th, 2014 | Posted by in Integrative Living | Therapy | Treatment Room - (Comments Off on Intimate Conversations from the Treatment Room)Summer days can be so VERY humid, sticky and hot. My patient “B” had the worst breakout on her face after wearing make up on one such day. She usually can’t use anything but the gentlest of hypoallergenic products on her skin. Her schedule was very full, and she was unable to get an appointment …
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