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Wishy-washy woman holding balls that say yes and no

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Posted on February 20, 2018August 19, 2020
Diane Chrestman
Mental Health Blog
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Dealing With Wishy-Washy People

If you love a person who is wish-washy, unreliable and commitment-phobic (WUC), I feel your pain. Apparently many people feel your pain. Unreliability, last minute cancelled plans, and wish-washy-ness is a far to common complaint in therapy sessions. It seems as though there is a collective uncertainty in how we should be dealing with wishy-washy […]

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Santa Clause wearing boxing gloves

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Posted on December 6, 2017October 5, 2020
Diane Chrestman
Mental Health Blog
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Christmas In A Dysfunctional Family

Visions of the perfect story-book holiday is a particularly difficult idea for many people. Surviving Christmas in dysfunctional families requires us to pull out all the tools we have learned in therapy so that we are not triggered by mal-adaptive thinking and emotional patterns. Let This Dose of Encouragement Strengthen You You have probably survived […]

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