Phil Stark, LMFT, is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in Los Angeles. He is also an author and screenwriter, with credits such as Dude, Where’s My Car?, That ‘70s Show, and South Park.
We know change is unavoidable and that things will inevitably change over the course of our lives, but sometimes, it takes more than this knowledge for us to finally act.
A Personal Perspective: How we deal with the possibility of big changes in life is the step before how we deal with the actual experience of those changes.
A Personal Perspective: How we deal with the possibility of big changes in life is the step before how we deal with the actual experience of those changes.
A massage might reveal sources of pain that we wriggle around to avoid. Likewise, we might avoid painful subjects that are the ones we most need to talk about in therapy.
A massage might reveal sources of pain that we wriggle around to avoid. Likewise, we might avoid painful subjects that are the ones we most need to talk about in therapy.
When we fall prey to perfectionism, we think we’re honorably aspiring to be our very best, but often we’re really just setting ourselves up for failure, as perfection is impossible and its pursuit inevitably backfires.