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Love Languages

Postmodern Perspectives . . .

Love Languages - Making a distinction between the modern view and the postmodern view.

Modern - There are five love languages that are waiting for you to identify with.
Postmodern - There are infinite love languages and yours is waiting to be constructed.

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Suggestion

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I’m often slow to offer suggestion inside the therapy room because I feel it’s disempowering to a client to offer my solution options instead of helping them to grow and strengthen their own ideas. However, sometimes  I feel that the situation does require me to insert something directly into the conversation. A way to do this, that I have become comfortable with, is to present an idea from a second hand perspective. I then immediately switch to a line of questioning that prompts the client to explore that option from their own perspective, morphing it into their own. An example might be:
In my work with other folks, I have heard of     _________________ being tried in this scenario. How might _________________ look or play out in your situation? 
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The Villainizingof Mood States

Why must we try and stop anxiety or make it go away? Part of what makes the anxious experience unpleasant is the socially constructed idea that we are not supposed to be anxious. Instead of stopping anxiety, another option might be to become its friend and comfortably exist in an anxious state.

The same could be said for anger. Why are we always trying to stop being angry? 

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Postmodern Perspectives . . . 
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