Is Your BPD Loved One Serious About Therapy?
Is Your BPD Loved One Serious About Therapy? – What Every Family Member and Loved One with Someone With BPD in Their Lives Needs to Know – BPD and Life Coach A.J. Mahari stresses that it is important for any family member or relationship partner of borderline to be able to evaluate how their loved one with borderline personality disorder (BPD) is progressing in terms of recovery, if in fact they are in therapy. It is equally as important for the family member or relationship partner of the person with BPD to understand that if the borderline in his or her life isn’t in therapy and continues to choose to not face their issues there is absolutely no way to effect change in that person. This is, for many, in and of itself, a crucial thing to radically accept and often is a pivotal choice point as well.
“Dirty Laundry” and The Paradox of Evolving Enlightenment
Adhering to the paradox of the quest to air “Dirty Laundry” while at the same time sweeping the past and its pain under the proverbial rug is a sure-fire way to deny your own individual evolution – your own personal enlightenment. It is not an authentic way to live your life. It is a painful and limiting way to live your life. It is a paradox that if not resolved, more often than not, results in a polarization that does not promote mental health or healthy relationship styles.
The Mystery of Understanding
Self Improvement, self growth, and getting to know more about who you authentically are require a willingness to learn more on a conscious level. The seeking of more understanding needs to be a conscious choice to embrace more awareness. Awareness that will unfold to you on this journey through the mystery of all that you might not yet fully understand about your self. Do you find that there are aspects of your life that just seem to defy your understanding in actual and purposefully consciously aware ways? Are you a seeker of more personal enlightenment when it comes to aspects of your relationships, your attitude, your moods, and your over-all choices in your life?
The Power of Awareness
Excerpt From The Book “The Mandala of Being” by Richard Moss, MD – Any story you tell yourself about who you are, any belief you have, any feeling you are aware of, is only an object of your larger consciousness. You, in your essence, are always something that experiences all these and remains more complete than any of them. When you realize that you are inherently larger than any feeling that enters your awareness, this very awareness will change the feeling, and it will release its grip on you.
AIDS: The First 10,000 American Cases
AIDS: The First 10,000 American Cases – Author of the Book, “Walking The Rainbow: An Arc to Triumph by Richard René Silvin – By the summer of 1981, an unnamed phenomenon was being widely discussed in medical circles. Three here-to-fore rare illnesses: a pneumonia (Pneumocystis Carinii), a cancer (Kaposi’s Sarcoma) and a fungus (Candida) were atypically being observed in increasing numbers in large American metropolitan centers. A Center for Disease Control (CDC) task force created a new term grouping them as “Opportunistic Infections” meaning conditions that would not normally appear in healthy individuals and which, therefore, needed some “opportunity” to manifest themselves. Sadly, since the problem was so largely based in the homosexual community, it did not ignite concern in government or even among the general public. A conservative wave had come to power in Washington, DC, and it was clear that as long as “normal Americans” were not at risk, there was no reason to prioritize research programs or even education.
News and Views
Dialectic Magazine will be including a section both in the magazine and on our blog wherein we will feature news and writers’ views of the news in politics, sports, music, celebrity news, entertainment, movies, and so much more.
The Healing Touch
Authors of the book, The Body Has A Mind of Its Own, Sandra and Matthew Blakeslee as you to imagine lying on a therapy table as a healer places her hand under the back of your neck. Her touch is gentle, calm, tranquil. She places her other hand lightly onto your left shoulder, then onto your right shoulder. A sensation of tingling warmth ripples through your body. A nagging pain in your lower back begins to drain away. It’s not vanquished, but it fades drastically. You relax under the spell of the healer’s hands.
Hurry Down Sunshine – Memoir By Michael Greenberg
The writing of a memoir is a tricky proposition, and not only because the form has been dragged through the mud by its own practitioners in recent years. Philip Roth has a passage in his novel The Counterlife about “the strange bind” in which the family members of a writer find themselves: “Their own material is articulated for them by someone else who, in his voracious, voyeuristic using-up of their lives, gets there first but doesn’t always get it right.” Having written a memoir about my daughter Sally’s manic breakdown in 1996, I’ve put my own family in this bind.
What’s In A Size?
What’s in a size? What is it that drives the media machinery that reflects our values and fears back to us reasonably accurately and has resulted in such fat-phobic and sizist cultures? What’s in a size has all to do with numbers that people manipulate to try to control what sells in this materialistic consumer-driven consumptive world.
Media On Media – Cracked Mirror View?
Is main-stream media distorting information as the result of seeing its own reflection in what is a cracked mirror view? Does this view distort what is reported? It seems that many of the news and information shows, and yes even the odd entertainment-news show that I watch does in at least some small way turn the attention of what they are paying attention to back on themselves lately. What’s up with this media on media thing? It can’t really be honest introspection can it?
