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I Prefer that Tucker Carlson be Angry
I prefer that Tucker Carlson be angry and intellectualize a great deal less. Tucker Carlson’s happiness is not the point. I listened to Tucker Carlson talk to Brian Kilmeade this past Friday (November 9, 2018), the day after an Antifa … Continue reading
Poverty and Living on the Edge
Perhaps I misunderstand the article “Living on the Edge” in last week’s Rappahannock Record in Kilmarnock, Virginia but the tone suggests that any “gap” in the matrix of services for those deemed “less fortunate” points to a need for some … Continue reading
Opiate Dependency and Chronic Pain in the Lower-back
100 million Americans have chronic pain. Although the U.S. makes up 5% of the world’s population, it uses 80% of the world’s opiates. Lower back pain is the most common type of chronic pain and LBP is the most-common reason … Continue reading
Posted in Clinical hypnosis for chronic pain, Lower-back pain, opioid dependency, opioid recovery
Tagged chronic pain, clinical hypnosis
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Self-hypnosis Training for Habit Control, Addictions, and Those in Recovery
Habit control is one condition for which hypnosis and self-hypnosis training are often utilized. I refer to those patients who wish to smoke and drink less frequently, address emotional eating, and maintain more poise and calm in situations that have … Continue reading
Posted in opioid dependency
Tagged opioid addiction, self-hypnosis training, those in recovery
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Are Manners Really Important? by Ginger Philbrick
What about Manners? Are manners really important? Is being polite necessary, or even important, anymore? A new book to help us in our efforts to employ good manners is just off the press! It is larger than any I’ve seen … Continue reading
Posted in because you are polite, Ginger Philbrick, good manners
Tagged are manners important, do manners matter, good manners
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Opioid Dependency, Habit Disorders and Self-hypnosis for Those in Recovery
Hypnosis is sometimes called “an empty syringe,” and a properly-trained therapist who has undergone advanced hypnosis training can sometimes potentiate psychotherapy for opioid dependency and habit disorders via the supplemental use of self-hypnosis training. In other words, the contents of … Continue reading
Posted in clinical hypnosis, opioid dependency
Tagged clinical hypnosis, habit disorders, opioid addiction
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Replacing Obamacare: Personal responsibility and common sense
When conservatives talk about replacing Obamacare with something that will “maintain coverage,” we should notice that they are talking about more big, paternalistic government that enables those among us who abdicate responsibility for our own circumstances. We need more personal … Continue reading
Posted in common sense, personal responsibility
Tagged repealing obamacare, replacing Obamacare
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National Child Abuse Month: Inter-generational Plunder?
April is National Child Abuse Month, and I am asking my friends to do three things: (1) think of deficit spending as fiscal child abuse, (2) get the term “inter…-generational equity” into the conversation and (3) hold elected representatives to … Continue reading
Posted in inter-generational equity, inter-generational plunder, National Child Abuse Month
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Addictive relationships: Are therapists enablers?
Author, trainer, and therapist, John Bradshaw, speaks of addictive relationships during his presentation on the topic: Healing The Shame that Binds You. This presentation was made during his promotion of his book by the same title and was recorded by … Continue reading
Posted in iatrogenics in behavioral health, welfare dependency
Tagged addictive relationships, John Bradshaw, welfare dependency
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Muslims hate the United States?: Morning Joe thinks not!
On March 9th, Republican front-runner Donald Trump said that Muslims hate the United States, and former congressman and journalist, Joe Scarborough, devoted no small amount of time on his television program, Morning Joe, castigating Mr. Trump for putting forward such … Continue reading
Posted in politics and mental health
Tagged Andrew J Billups, Islam and Mental Health, Morning Joe
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