by Bill LaBrie | Oct 7, 2014 | Culture, Education, Essays, personal development, Philosophy, Psychology, Therapy
I’ve thought about this line quite a bit. Just like life itself, there’s more to it than there seems. First, we need to be aware that Socrates said this as he was found guilty of heresy and corruption of youth and was forced by Athens to commit suicide....
by Bill LaBrie | Sep 23, 2014 | Careers, Coping, Essays
It’s not just mental health. These steps improve your physical health as well. Since most modern coping/self-help literature seems to be focused on averting ill-defined misery of the sort for which there is no clear cause, I throw out my simple suggestion...
by Bill LaBrie | Sep 14, 2014 | attachment, Coping, Education, Essays, Parenting, Psychology, recovery, Therapy
The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self by Alice Miller My rating: 5 of 5 stars As a child I grew to shun and hate the label “gifted.” As I aged, I never really understood why. I had forgotten –or rather never understood —...
by Bill LaBrie | Sep 4, 2014 | Aging, attachment, Coping, Education, Essays, Psychology, Sex + Relationships, Therapy
Continuing my story of adult attachment disorder. Read part one here: The Parking Lot. Part 3 is here: The Recipe for Lemonade. It was a rare, happy occasion. I remember how normal and whole I felt that evening. I was standing on the front of the...
by Bill LaBrie | Aug 24, 2014 | Arizona, attachment, Coping, Essays, Psychology, Sex + Relationships
This is part one in a three-part series. Part 2 is here: The Sick System In some ways, I died in a parking lot one night in 1976. And it was near that same parking lot that I started coming back to life. It had been a parking lot for a Woolco back then. Nowadays, new...
