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Behavior helps us to see the limits we put on ourselves.

This is the final part of a 3-part series looking into the essential characteristics of Relational-ACT, the counseling philosophy behind the services provided by Life Weavings. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), created by Steven Hayes, considers behavior to be an indication of the direction or Value that one’s life is heading towards. As such, behavior is a source for constant appraisal of…

Journeys of our mind-maps are the lines and symbols of our interactional lives.

  Traveling usually requires directions. They may be obsessively precise or they might be confusingly opaque, but whether you’re deciding to turn down such and such a street or taking a right at the end of the fence-line, there’s still some level of guided movement involved. With GPS, the history of more broadly keeping an eye on where we’re going seems to, however, have gone away. Stories litter…

Personality is as much a social interactive process as it is a representation of who we are.

There can be only one, one me that is, one I that moves through events observing and directing behavior. Personal experience seems to support this notion, thoughts and emotions arising out of the maelstrom of our internal world in response to information we believe ourselves fully capable of comprehending. Yet the seeming ease this occurs obscures a wider situation. If we were to switch our…

Meaning-making based on Value is intrinsic to being human. No other can hold it for us.

Trauma is a profoundly human experience, happening to anyone regardless of gender, race, or profession. The degree of its effect is varied, the form it takes is most certainly tied to environmental and cultural context, and what is called into question are the deepest aspects of our lives. While trauma is often immediately connected in terms of mental health with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder…

The delusional is often everyday belief made larger by its consequences.

The nature of our mind’s “I” is a delightful example of illusory control. We possess it when we wake up, lose it when we go to sleep and rarely consider the variations that reside between those two states. We hardly ever need to. Contemplation of our conscious lives is left to the supposed fanciful depths of philosophical analysis and is a point of acceptable ignorance for most of psychology.…

Transference Isn't Just For Therapy We do not choose our thoughts, they arise freely from within our relational reality

Transference is the projection of feelings from one person onto another due to conscious and unconscious empathic connection(s). There are variations on this behavior, the counseling psychology professionals in particular being concerned with distinguishing “transference” and “counter-transference,” where the former is from the client to the counselor and the latter is the reverse. For purposes…