Articles Of Interest

By Personal Growth Counseling| July 17th, 2016 Everyone is a communicator. What and how effective one communicates determines many things that contribute to or detract from one’s quality of life. It determines the kind of car we drive, the house we live in and perhaps...

By Personal Growth Counseling| June 30th, 2016 The harm that is caused by emotional and mental control is causing a broken spirit that does not heal. It is simply interpersonal violence. It is an assault on a person’s self-concept and esteem. Likewise, it can be the...

By Personal Growth Counseling| December 23rd, 2015 Every year there is a lot of criticism among Christians by the attempts of the world to make Christmas a worldly and commercial event rather than looking at the true significance of the Holy Day of Christmas. One...

By Personal Growth Counseling| December 7th, 2015 At Christmastime, almost everyone is more likely to be reunited with family members and friends that we do not see very often. Some of these people may carry painful memories for you, and you may fear and/or dread...

By Personal Growth Counseling| November 30th, 2015 One of the most heartbreaking discoveries I made during my first year working at the Department of Human Services was that there were mothers out there who almost hate their own daughters. I am so fortunate to have...

By Personal Growth Counseling| November 30th, 2015 Not everyone with ADD or ADHD will find they face the same challenges at work. Many people struggle with distractions, which may be internal, external or both. Internal distractions may include random thoughts popping...

By Personal Growth Counseling| October 5th, 2015 The role of sexuality in the symptoms of patients/clients is far greater than dysfunction, abuse, and addiction. We live in a highly sexual culture, as evidenced by the media and especially the entertainment industry....

By Personal Growth Counseling| September 16th, 2015 When we think of a psychopath, most of us get an image of a violent killer or an over the top villain. What most people don’t realize is that we are probably dealing with someone or more than one person who...

By Personal Growth Counseling| August 30th, 2015 It is about disrupting the process of pleasure Addiction is such a harmful behavior that it should have been eliminated a long time ago. However, humans seem to be determined to experiment with things that make them...

By Personal Growth Counseling| 2017-09-26T04:18:31+00:00 July 29th, 2015 How we feel about ourselves affects every aspect of our life. Our responses to events are shaped by who and what we think we are. The dramas of our lives are the reflections of our most private...

By Personal Growth Counseling| July 28th, 2015 Stress. It is inescapable and unavoidable. Small amounts of stress are beneficial to the body, urging us to adapt to our environment. However, higher stress levels, if left unchecked, can lead to serious illnesses of the...

By Personal Growth Counseling| July 20th, 2015 An article written by my granddaughter, Bailey Ebersole: “To start this off, I want to be clear, I am not the skinniest person on the planet, nor am I the heaviest, but I think we all have those days when we  “feel fat.”...

By Personal Growth Counseling| July 21st, 2015 Personal Growth Counselors choose evidence based treatment interventions. These interventions need to be based on the client’s needs, and the goals for treatment need to be based on a variety of things. Some of the...

By Personal Growth Counseling| July 6th, 2015 Most of us parents have kissed our kids good-night, tucked them in bed, turned out the light and instructed them to be quiet and go to sleep. Right? Ok, that works for some children, especially if they are really tired....

By Personal Growth Counseling| July 20th, 2015 Stress. It is inescapable and unavoidable. Small amounts of stress are beneficial to the body, urging us to adapt to our environment. However, higher stress levels, if left unchecked, can lead to serious illnesses of the...

By Personal Growth Counseling|  June 2nd, 2015 Our goal is to have a strong, positive self-concept and to be able to maintain it regardless our expertise or lack of it in any particular area. This needs to happen regardless of the approval or disapproval of any other...

By Personal Growth Counseling| June 8th, 2015 Emotional Brain Everyone has at one time or another (maybe many times or most of the time) had the experience of being controlled by his/her emotions. I frequently refer to Emotional Brain as EB or “the Energizer Bunny.”...

By Personal Growth Counseling| May 27th, 2015 When bad things happen in your life (and they do to everyone) don’t allow yourself to be a victim. Only losers constantly blame others for things that go wrong in their life. I have found that rather than blaming someone...

By Personal Growth Counseling| April 9th, 2015 Far too often, people let problems overwhelm them before they seek help. This could be due to a number of factors, perhaps most often the stigma associated with seeking assistance with mental health issues. In therapy, we...

By Personal Growth Counseling| April 9th, 2015 Parental alienation (PA) is a serious mental condition that affects hundreds of thousands of children and families in the United States. It is a mental condition in which a child-usually one whose parents are engaged in a...

By Personal Growth Counseling| April 6th, 2015 Many of us grew up thinking that everybody’s needs are more important than our own. We often cling to old baggage from the negative childhood belief that we are not, nor will we ever be good enough, strong or pretty...