by C P Whitaker | Feb 15, 2023 | Coping Skills, Health, Menopause, Relationships
As noted in the first Skills Application blog, none of the individual coping skills blogs specifically mention menopause. The most valuable and effective coping skills are those that can be applied across a wide spectrum of life’s issues. Here’s how to apply those...
by C P Whitaker | Dec 12, 2022 | Coping Skills, Self Awareness
Intentionality is a gamechanger. But sadly, it is something all but the most resolute of us are lacking. Why is that? Because it requires all the elements of HARD – commitment, routine, pausing, self-assessment, realignment with our values, restarting with focus. Any...
by C P Whitaker | Dec 5, 2022 | Coping Skills, Relationships
I pulled an oldie but a goodie out of my hat the other day in working with a couple that had been on a significantly long and meaningful “good run”. Both had worked diligently on themselves and on their marriage and as a result had experienced a smooth period of...
by C P Whitaker | Nov 29, 2022 | Coping Skills, Humor, Self Awareness
It is beginning to get ever so slightly nippy outside in the morning. I am blessed with a long wrap around porch on the front of an old farmhouse on the outskirts of town. I call it living in the country but someone who actually lives in the country would probably...
by C P Whitaker | Nov 22, 2022 | Coping Skills, Relationships
In 2001 while working as a Child and Family Therapist in a public mental health agency I quickly learned that teaching traditional Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to a group of depressed, anxious and angry adolescents made their eyes glaze over. CBT is a valuable,...
