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5 days ago
5 min

Common Therapist Mistakes - Part 11: Resisting Resistance

How to address your clients' resistance to change. Do you resist resistance. If so, you may find yourself in uncomfortable power struggles.

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Linda Buchanan

Jul 5
3 min

From Change Your Story - Change Your Life: Did Anyone Ever Gag you? Take it Off!

Have you ever felt gagged. What can you do with a gag? Keep wearing it or take it off! How to stop gagging yourself to be yourself.

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Linda Paulk Buchanan PhD

Jun 24
4 min

From One Therapist to Another: What is Narrative Therapy and Aren't We all Doing it Anyway?

Clients project early beliefs, which were always understandable but almost never justifiable, onto their circumstances with disastrous resul

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Linda Buchanan

Jun 15
3 min

Change Your Story - Change Your Life: Three Ways to Keep Negative Thoughts From Having the Last Word

Strategies for conquering negative thinking. Don't let a negative thought have the last word.

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Linda Buchanan

Jun 2
5 min

From One Therapist to Another: To Return or Not to Return

Strategies for working through ambivalence about returning to brick and mortar therapy offices.

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Linda Buchanan

May 13
4 min

From Change Your Story: No Need to Socially Distance From Yourself

Are you socially distanced? From yourself? Maybe you don't even realize that people have relationships with themselves but we all do.

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Linda Buchanan

May 10
2 min

Mother's Day - Happy?

Today is the day that we celebrate our mothers. Consider the very most positive moments you had with your mom growing up and honor those mem

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Linda Buchanan

May 3
3 min

From One Therapist to Another: The Covid Coaster

After shelter in place, are we getting back to normal or heading to something new? What are the silver linings that we take from this time?

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Linda Buchanan

Apr 27
3 min

From Change Your Story - Change Your Life: Focus on the Present or the Future in a Pandemic?

Contemplate what this pause in your normal life has given you and what you want to keep when it's over

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Linda Buchanan

Mar 16
3 min

From Change Your Story - Change Your Life: How can the Mona Lisa help with Covid-19?

How could the Mona Lisa smile help us see the silver lining as we try to cope with the pandemic.

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Linda Buchanan

Mar 9
3 min

From Change Your Story-Change Your Life: What Lens Do You Use?

What if the things you believe about yourself are actually distortions of the truth? If you could correct your "identity" eyesight it would

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Linda Buchanan

Mar 2
5 min

From One Therapist to Another: When Client's Don't Want to Be There

During Lauren's sessions, she repeatedly said that she did't want to be in therapy. She seemed to feel like I was going to take something fr

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Linda Buchanan

Feb 23
2 min

From Change Your Story - Change Your Life: Is Curiosity a Key to Happiness?

Markham Hied calls curiosity the "secret sauce" to living a happy life. I call it the secret to change as well.

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Linda Buchanan

Feb 2
2 min

Change Your Story - Change Your Life: Are You Kind to People?

Tyler Perry thanks his five year old self and asks what would you say to your self as a child. Increasing compassion through mindfulness.

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Linda Buchanan

Jan 20
5 min

From One Therapist to Another: Accessing Your Client's Wisdom for Change

When our clients come to us, they have often lost sight of their own wisdom. The most powerful interventions help them find wisdom within.

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Linda Buchanan

Jan 14
3 min

Change Your Story - Change Your Life: Remembering the Good

Did you know that most of us have a negative memory bias that affects our self concept? Try this exercise to reestablish the truth.

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Linda Buchanan

Dec 16, 2019
2 min

From One Therapist to Another: Do You Talk Too Much?

Being sensitive can enhance our effectiveness as a therapist but it can also enhance a need to be understood leading to being too talkative

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Linda Buchanan

Dec 2, 2019
5 min

From Change Your Story-Change Your Life: Six things to Stop Doing in Psychotherapy for Rapid Results

f you're in psychotherapy and you aren't seeing the changes that you want to see happen quickly enough, you might want to consider the follo

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Linda Buchanan

Nov 25, 2019
4 min

Change Your Story-Change Your Life: What Verb Tense Are you Living In?

What tense are you in? Are you in the moment that you are currently having? Does that sound like a crazy question? Peace comes in the presen

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Linda Buchanan

Nov 18, 2019
5 min

From One Therapist to Another - Potential Hazards in Individual Therapy: Part 2

When clients talk about people who are not in the room, a false narrative may be operating. This can be lead us down the wrong path.

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