About those Hallmark holidays… My Mom hated them. She saw the game for what it is – Hallmark and other retail businesses exploiting some important piece of our lives for profit, manipulating us to try to make us feel bad if we don’t fork over a whole lot of a cash to prove that we […]
Mother’s Day from the Therapists’ Couch
Mother’s Day is complicated for an awful lot of people. This isn’t exactly surprising considering that mother issues tend to be equally complicated. Mother’s Day brings all of that unresolved muck rushing to the forefront as the culture around us screams out demands that we treat our mothers and feel a certain way about our motherhood, […]
Over-Giving
It is officially gift-giving season around these parts. For some, it is an Olympic sport. Joey gave something THIS big to Veronica, so now Veronica has to give something even bigger to Joey. So then Joey feels compelled to give even more to Veronica, even though he can’t afford it and so this year, Veronica […]
Good Grief: Holiday Edition
Happy happy happy! Joyful joyful joyful! ‘Tis the season to … …Be depressed out of your mind because it seems as though the whole planet is spending their time with magical, loving, warm families engaged in holiday traditions, while you are carrying an oppressive lump of sadness and grief. It feels sometimes as though those […]
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