As a psychologist with over thirty years of experience, I was thrilled to discover a new set of techniques and therapies that are being developed.  This new area is called Energy Psychology and it uses the same energy system involved in acupuncture and acupressure.  Using various techniques we help many people gain resolution to emotional problems, quickly and painlessly.  I have personally benefited from using these techniques in a variety of situations in my own life, and have integrated it into the work I do with my clients.   

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HOW TO HANDLE PESTERING AND BADGERING!
(Excerpted from; The Power Struggle Handbook)

It is common for parents to return after trying to set some limits and state that they did not give in to their child, but that the child made them miserable with pestering and badgering for hours.  It is important to remember that anything your child says or does, is a behavior that can be labeled as acceptable or unacceptable and that it is the parents’ responsibility to give consequences for those behaviors.  Since many of the rules and limits that parents set are not going to be popular with their children, parents should expect there will be questions, complaining, whining or maybe even tantrums.  The parents should be prepared with consequences for these behaviors as well. 

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Any job is easier when you understand the goal.  The more simple and clear the objective, the easier it is to stay on task.  When I ask parents what their job is I get a wide variety of complicated answers which range from loving to bathing, feeding and protecting their children.  The description I like most for defining my job as a parent is “My job is to raise my children to independence.”

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I tell people that I think the word depression is far too limiting to help us understand what it is and how it works.  When most people think of depression they think of someone who is sad, down in the dumps, feeling helpless, hopeless and suicidal.  They might think of depression as keeping someone lying in bed, with the shades drawn and the covers pulled over their head.  Perhaps they think of someone who is sitting in some psychiatric hospital, barely moving.  Once they get this picture they compare it to themselves and quickly conclude that they are not depressed because they are working, or going to school, or taking care of a family, or doing all of the above. The problem is that most of the people who struggle with or suffer from depression are not stuck in bed, or the back ward of a psychiatric hospital.  Most people with depression are functioning in life.  The problem is that they are not functioning easily or up to their capacity and it is taking them much more effort and energy to get things done than it would be if they were not “depressed”.

Read the whole article: A Common Sense Way to Talk About Depression

Contact Dr. Hayes:

Timothy J. Hayes, Psy.D.
Licensed Clinical Psychologist

800 McHenry Ave.
Suite B
Crystal Lake, IL  60014

(815) 455-0590 x 2

www.ch4cs.com

thayes@ch4cs.com