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Effective Feedback can Solve Problems and Improve Communication

published Thursday, March 28th, 2013 at 11:00 am by

‘Did You Know’ giving and receiving effective feedback can help solve problems and improve the communication in your relationships?  

The following points may guide and improve your feedback skills…

  • Ask the receiver if you can offer helpful feedback.
  • Give feedback when you think the receiver is ready to hear it and soon after the behavior is exhibited.
  • Offer feedback that is specific rather than general.
  • Give feedback that is clear, concise, and brief.
  • Phrase your feedback in a positive, caring way.
  • Use reflective listening to clarify that the receiver is effectively under- standing your feedback.
  • Give feedback that focuses on behavior, not on who or what the person is.
  • Share feedback that describes how that behavior affects you.
  • Communicate feedback on behaviors that the person can reasonably change.

Do you have feedback and communications you need to express and you are not certain how to make it happen in a way that will convey the caring concern that you have for another?  Relationship coaching and counseling can help teach you how to implement tools and techniques that can solve problems and bring restoration to your relationships.

If you need counseling and coaching to infuse new approaches into your communication, please call me Carol Ann Worthing, PhD, at 303-663-5846 or visit my Contact page. I have over 20 years of professional experience with successful outcomes.

Carol Ann Worthing, PhD of Individual & Family Wholeness is a psychotherapist in private practice since 1992. She has her PhD in Psychology from Northcentral University in Arizona. She provides a safe and caring approach to your counseling and psychotherapy and evaluations for individuals, couples, families, and children. Her practice represents integrity, competency, and confidentiality, a safe and caring place for psychotherapy. It is her mission to guide you and your family to become emotionally and psychologically whole and to help you deliberately build your lives and families on that wholeness.

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You can be Addicted to Alcohol if you Drink One or Two Glasses of Alcohol a Day

published Tuesday, March 26th, 2013 at 11:00 am by

‘Did You Know’ you can be physically addicted to alcohol if you drink one or two glasses of alcohol a day?  ‘Seeing is believing’, said the alcoholic son of his physically addicted father who was to have surgery.

The physician of the father asked him if he drank, and if so how much, in the event that he needed to be detoxified before surgery.  He responded by telling his physician that he drank one to two drinks per day.  The doctor ordered him to the hospital before his surgery to detoxify from the alcohol.  The son stayed with him in the hospital through his detoxification and witnessed that his father had typical withdrawal symptoms from alcohol of anxiety, rapid pulse, and sweating.

Other withdrawal symptoms could have been symptoms like nausea, vomiting, insomnia, agitation, hand tremors, hallucinations, illusions, and seizures.

If you or a family member wants an evaluation to determine the dependence on a substance and desire recovery from that substance abuse, please call me for your Relationship Coaching and Counseling, Carol Ann Worthing, PhD, at 303-663-5846 or visit my Contact page. I have over 20 years of professional experience with successful outcomes.

Carol Ann Worthing, PhD of Individual & Family Wholeness is a psychotherapist in private practice since 1992. She has her PhD in Psychology from Northcentral University in Arizona. She provides a safe and caring approach to your counseling and psychotherapy and evaluations for individuals, couples, families, and children. Her practice represents integrity, competency, and confidentiality, a safe and caring place for psychotherapy. It is her mission to guide you and your family to become emotionally and psychologically whole and to help you deliberately build your lives and families on that wholeness.

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People Seek Their Own Level of Mental Health in Relationships

published Thursday, March 21st, 2013 at 11:00 am by

‘Did You Know’ people seek their own level of mental health in relationships?

There are pathological reasons why couples are mismatched in relationships.  If an individual doesn’t recognize the need for emotional healing and get it, he or she will attract an individual who fits into or is accepting of that type of character dysfunction.  Examples of these relationships may be…

  • Strong individuals may connect with weak individuals
  • Co-dependents may connect with those dependent on…
  • Narcissists may connect with those who are needy, weak, or those who feel inferior, or feel like a victim
  • Adult individuals who relate  to each other in a parent-child manner
  • Adult individuals who relate to each other in a child-child manner
  • Adult individuals who relate to each other in a parent-parent manner
  • Caretakers who take care of another
  • Opposites who are attracted to one another
  • Having an attraction to a personality trait in another that you want
  • Being attracted to someone with an unresolved issue from your own unresolved past
  • Being attracted to the ‘badness’ in someone because you don’t recognize and heal your own character flaws
  • Disengaged individuals because that is how they were raised
  • Over enmeshed individuals because that is how they were raised
  • Someone with low self-esteem attracted to their idea of the ‘trophy’

If you are passionate about having good relationships and want yours to mature to a place of deep meaning and connection, please call me for your Relationship Coaching and Counseling, Carol Ann Worthing, PhD, at 303-663-5846 or visit my Contact page. I have over 20 years of professional experience with successful outcomes.

Carol Ann Worthing, PhD of Individual & Family Wholeness is a psychotherapist in private practice since 1992. She has her PhD in Psychology from Northcentral University in Arizona. She provides a safe and caring approach to your counseling and psychotherapy and evaluations for individuals, couples, families, and children. Her practice represents integrity, competency, and confidentiality, a safe and caring place for psychotherapy. It is her mission to guide you and your family to become emotionally and psychologically whole and to help you deliberately build your lives and families on that wholeness.

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Your Thinking can Sabotage your Behaviors, Relationships and Success

published Tuesday, March 19th, 2013 at 11:00 am by

‘Did You Know’ your thinking can sabotage your behaviors, relationships, success, and the outcome of your life?

Most people base their decisions on their feelings and/or their thoughts.  When their feelings and thoughts are distorted, they cope and reason with life based on irrational thinking, such as the following:

  • Black or white thinking; extremes in thinking; all-or-nothing thinking
  • Over generalizing
  • Lack of gratitude; discounting the positive things that do happen
  • Allowing one negative event to negatively effect other events of the day
  • Jumping to conclusions
  • Exaggerating
  • Emotional reasoning instead of thinking logically
  • Imperative, bossy, controlling thinking
  • Labeling
  • Taking responsibility for events outside of your control
  • Taking information out of context
  • Twisting information
  • Misinterpreting what others say
  • Minimizing
  • Seeing only what you want to see
  • Drawing conclusions without the evidence for it
  • Thinking that someone can magically know or read your mind
  • Thinking that others have ulterior motives
  • Suspicious, paranoid thinking
  • Assuming that others know what you want or need without communicating those needs or wants
  • Having unreasonable expectations of yourself or others

If you need counseling, psychotherapy, or coaching to infuse new approaches into your thinking and reasoning, please call me, Carol Ann Worthing, PhD, at 303-663-5846 or visit my Contact page. I have over 20 years of professional experience with successful outcomes.

Carol Ann Worthing, PhD of Individual & Family Wholeness is a psychotherapist in private practice since 1992. She has her PhD in Psychology from Northcentral University in Arizona. She provides a safe and caring approach to your counseling and psychotherapy and evaluations for individuals, couples, families, and children. Her practice represents integrity, competency, and confidentiality, a safe and caring place for psychotherapy. It is her mission to guide you and your family to become emotionally and psychologically whole and to help you deliberately build your lives and families on that wholeness.

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The Most Common Four Reasons for Anger Underneath Most People’s Frustration

published Thursday, March 14th, 2013 at 11:00 am by

‘Did you Know’ the following four reasons for anger are underneath most people’s frustration, anger, and irritability?

1. When you think your needs are not being met…
While our individual requirements for basic essential needs may differ, most include shelter, food, water, safety, trusting our environment, privacy, freedom, employment, medical care, communication, friendship and love.
2. When you feel devalued…
This is the experienced reality or perception that we are demeaned, put down, unrecognized, diminished, and under attack.
3. When your strongly held beliefs are challenged…
Great examples are our strongly held beliefs that differ from others such as how to raise children; and our political, social, and religious views.
4. When you set goals that someone else can block…
It is always best practice to set all life goals to your own expectations and not to that of others; then your goals are less likely to be blocked by others.

Anger and conflict management is the healthy choice for daily peace and joy. If you want counseling, psychotherapy, or coaching to identify your anger, frustrations, and irritability; and you want to remove yourself from the triggers of an unproductive cycle of anger, please call me, Carol Ann Worthing, PhD, at 303-663-5846 or visit my Contact page. I have over 20 years of professional experience with successful outcomes.

Carol Ann Worthing, PhD of Individual & Family Wholeness is a psychotherapist in private practice since 1992. She has her PhD in Psychology from Northcentral University in Arizona. She provides a safe and caring approach to your counseling and psychotherapy and evaluations for individuals, couples, families, and children. Her practice represents integrity, competency, and confidentiality, a safe and caring place for psychotherapy. It is her mission to guide you and your family to become emotionally and psychologically whole and to help you deliberately build your lives and families on that wholeness.

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