Reality Fragmentation is when you discover that the reality you thought you were living is a fiction. Instead you have been living in an entirely separate reality, but you didn’t know it. One of the most emotionally damaging things you can do to a person is to make them doubt their ability to perceive reality accurately. Reality Fragmentation and the resulting disorientation create a feeling for … [Read more...]
June Recommended Reading
Getting the Love You Want, by Harville Hendrix PhD Getting the Love You Want, was originally published in 1988, and has been revised several times. Hendrix and his wife, Helen LaKelly Hunt, PhD, were the originators of Imago Relationship Counseling, a type of couples’ therapy. The term “imago” is Latin for “image, “and refers to the “unconscious image of familiar love.” In other words, there is … [Read more...]
The Handicap Created By Emotional Disconnect
We often think that emotions are felt with our minds, but this is not true. Emotions are felt in the body. While the mind oversees naming the emotion, and giving it meaning, the feeling itself gets felt by the body. Consider the following ways our bodies register emotion. Rage makes us feel tingly and tight throughout our chest and arms and face. Shame brings a flood of heat and warmth to … [Read more...]
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