WHAT IS IT AND HOW DOES IT INFLUENCE US? How does Body Image affect us physically, emotionally and psychologically? How can we move beyond its negative influences? How we feel about our body or about our body parts affects how we feel about ourselves. What do you like or dislike about your body? How do you feel about your hair, …
Author: Chris Gilge
Taming Your Anger
Taming Your Anger is a program of guided self-discovery that teaches your brain a new response to the signal of anger. It allows the user to avoid the negative consequences of the uncontrolled outburst and destructive behavior. Our classes are a combination of online instruction and one-on-one phone coaching. During this 6 week program, you will be guided through exercises …
Teens and Tadpoles
When tadpoles mature into frogs we attempt to describe their maturation by noting their size or their ability to swim or their ability to breathe out of water, etc. Each of these variables identifies a difference between tadpoles and frogs but, even if we had 100 ways of describing differences between the two, we’d never get them all. The bottom …
LGBT Issues in 2017
Dealing with change requires adaptation to something new which has already taken place. Dealing with change produces stress, regardless if you are in favor of the change or if you are not. Known fact (if you believe in Science): Stress is unhealthy, to say the least. For instance, let’s look at the recent emergence of LGBT acceptance in our society: …
Why Does a Straw Break the Camel’s Back?
It’s the camel’s fault that the straw breaks its back because the camel agreed to carry so much weight that the sleight additional weight of a feather is enough to bring it down to its knees. Sound familiar? That’s what it’s like for those who need to make an emergency visit to the dentist to treat painful cavities or gum …
Trustworthiness
TRUSTWORTHINESS “The best predictor of future behavior is past performance.” “Fool me once shame on you. Fool me twice shame on me.” What is trust? I define Trust as a measure of confidence in the consistency of an individual’s or an organization’s behavior. Trust can also be defined as, “an emotion, based on one’s confidence that a person or …
Who We Serve
We offer programs to thse who want to develop their emotional intelligence and deal with their anger expression. We believe healthy anger expression and emotional intelligence should be taught by pediatricians, by human resources, by people invested in the internal developement of their relationship. We believe that learning to express anger in healthy, non-aggressive ways and to develop emotional intelligence …
Who We Serve
We offer programs to those who want to develop their emotional intelligence and deal with their anger expression. We believe that healthy anger expression and emotional intelligence should be taught by pediatricians to new parents, by therapists, coaches, educators to students in their classes, by human resource staff to all employees, as well as in treatment facilities.
Fool Me Once Shame on You…
I describe myself as an Adult Developmental Psychologist, acting as a catalyst for others’ developmental process. As infants become children, children become adolescents and adolescents become adults, adults can continue to evolve through additional, more advanced, stages of adult development. However, unlike earlier developmental stages which unfold naturally, advanced adult development requires intention and effort. Like it requires heat to …
What is Adult Development?
I describe myself as an Adult Developmental Psychologist, acting as a catalyst for others’ developmental process. As infants become children, children become adolescents and adolescents become adults, adults can continue to evolve through additional, more advanced, stages of adult development. However, unlike earlier developmental stages which unfold naturally, advanced adult development requires intention and effort. Like it requires heat to …