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Gratitude: "Always there behind the clouds of my mind."

4/12/2018

 
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By: Cliff Schuman, LMFT 

A personal and helpful journey to find balance amidst life's challenges. Studies show that practicing and experiencing gratitude boosts feelings of satisfaction, strengthens our relationships and drives us to help others.


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After the Election: Healing the Pain

11/14/2016

 
After the Election: Healing the Pain www.ManhattanMFT.com

We know where you are right now: scared, hurt, alarmed, uncertain, excited, and frustrated. We know—we are there too. This election has been tough on all of us, regardless of where we fall on the political spectrum. It has been polarizing, dividing, and agitating. But, above all—it has been exhausting.


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Thrive Through Major Life Changes

10/25/2016

 
Thrive Through Major Life Changes www.ManhattanMFT.com

It happened. You are blind-sided, side-swiped, disoriented and bewildered. Whether your change was intentional or surprising, happy or sad, scary or exhilarating—one thing you can be sure of is this:

The change is in charge now.

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Make Room for Your Life. 

7/13/2016

 
How do we live our life and make room for being with our children while we are working so hard on building a good life for them? This blog post offers some simple tools.
By Amanda Craig, PhD, LMFT

I’m waiting for my son to get home from school.  It’s a beautiful day and I know he is going to want to play soccer, then football, and then play hockey with lacrosse sticks and a soccer ball.  Brutally honest, I am thinking about the couple of e-mails I would like to send and loose ends I’d like to wrap up before the end of business day.

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Motivation, Procrastination, and the Sleight of Hand.

6/20/2016

 
Motivation, procrastination, and the sleight of hand. www.ManhattanMFT.com
By Alex Peskin, LMFT

The best magicians make us think we are seeing something that is hardly possible to believe. Really, unless we are lost in Hogwarts or Westeros, we know that what we are seeing is actually a sleight of hand.

Distraction and misdirection lead us to focus somewhere else while something significant is still happening right in front of us.

You might not realize it, but some of the best everyday magicians are those of us who are lacking in motivation. 
When we are stuck, we use distraction and misdirection to avoid facing the painful truth about our lack of productivity and effectiveness. Procrastination is one of the big tricks we use.

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The Art and Science of Saying 'No'

1/19/2016

 
The Art and Science of Saying 'No' www.ManhattanMFT.com
By Cliff Schuman, MS, LMFT

Let’s face it: we all want to be liked, approved of, respected, admired and found pleasing. So, we ask a grocery checkout cashier how their day is going, smile at our neighbor, volunteer to bring juice boxes to our kid’s preschool party, bake cupcakes for the bake sale at work, doggy sit for a friend, help a relative pack and move, take a sibling to the airport on the same day your big project is due…
Well, that escalated quickly, didn’t it? Trying to be a ‘good egg’ is a never-ending game of musical chairs with your time, energy, and other resources. It is an untenable balancing act that few master.

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Have you got a case of Christmas Piss?

12/14/2015

 
Have you got a case of Christmas Piss? www.ManhattanMFT.com
Contributed by a reader

In our house, for many years we referred to the anger, exhaustion and general feeling of overwhelm before Christmas as “Christmas Piss.”

It got to be a joke after a while and helped ease the strain we had over trying to shop for the right presents, send cards, go to holiday parties (why is it that everyone entertains at Christmas?), find the perfect outfits for every event, and yet maintain a warm and glowing family Christmas.

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Best Holidays Ever! Therapist strategies for sane and stress-free holiday season.

11/19/2015

 
Best Holidays Ever! Therapists share their personal strategies for sane and stress-free(ish) holiday season. www.ManhattanMFT.com
Revised

Oh, the Holidays! We have a love-hate relationship with them. We look forward to them all year only to begin complaining about the stress, the over-the-top schedule, pants busting at the seams, and budget chocking on the dust of runaway spending.
 
We yearn for the perfection of holidays of our childhood, when Christmas (or Hanukkah or Festivus) was about BEING, having fun, family, and care-free wonder of what’s next. There was room for boundless joy, surprise, awe, tradition AND newness, doing AND being. Surely it wasn’t perfect (remember the time when you got your holiday outfit dirty before you even left the house and got the full doze of Mom’s wrath?), but it was to us.

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