Have you ever wanted to ask a mental health therapist a question? Well, now you can! We are excited to announce at Joe Martino counseling that we are starting a series called, Joe Knows. We are currently collecting questions that will be chosen at random by us with no real method to the madness. The…
June is a hard month for me. It is both the month that my mom was born (the 7th) and the month that she died (28th). To be honest, I don’t remember much about the month that she died. I was vaccuuming the house when my Dad called to tell me that she had died….
Dr. Robert Lehman recently shared this with me and I thought it was important enough to share. Parental and family time Family celebrations Connecting rituals Familiar and sacred places Shared common interests Family stories and symbols What do you think of the list? Would you add anything? Would you take anything away?
Most of us are not so wise. Fearing the pain involved, almost all of us, to a greater or lesser degree, attempt to avoid problems. We procrastinate, hoping that they will go away. We ignore them, forget them, pretend they do not exist. We even take drugs to assist us in ignoring them, so that…
Are you a slave? It seems absurd to ask that question, doesn’t it? Some may even think it seems too insensitive given the number of actual slaves in the world today. But let me explain. I have seen countless people come through my office doors who are slaves. Some are willing slaves. Some recognize that…
I used to know a guy. He died at an early age from cancer, four years after his wife died from cancer. Because of the nature of his story, it went into a book. A really good book, that I thoroughly enjoyed reading. More than that, it helped me grow. Through our quirky world of…
Let’s talk about change. Why is change so hard? Why do so many people set out to change and fail? Why can two people in almost the exact same situation go through the same change interventions and one actually changes, and one doesn’t? I think there are a lot of reasons that answers these questions….
What do you think about the quote below? Someone wrote it to me last week and I have recieved permission to share it with the greater world wide web. 🙂 What do you think about what he’s saying? Feel free to comment and tell me your thoughts. Please deal with the topic, and not the…
When a relationship has trust as a pillar, it becomes a relationship that can withstand the slower seasons of marriage. What happens when trust is the driver of a relationship. Before I answer that, let me ask you a question. Take a few moments to answer and see if you can remember a few real…
“One of the hardest tasks that parents face is making sure that they still run the house when kids come along.” I read this quote and thought about my own interactions with parents and my own parenting. I agree. Especially, in our society there seems to be so much emphasis on the effect that parents…
