Posts tagged denial
Common Defense Mechanisms: What Are You Defending and Why?
Common Defense Mechanisms: What Are You Defending and Why?

More often than not, we defend ourselves and our actions – sometimes without even realizing it. Maybe if we weren’t so busy explaining ourselves to others, we’d have more room for important things like compassion, understanding, and empathy.

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Bridgette Gottwaldmental health awareness, mental health, therapy, therapy sessions, therapist, defense mechanisms, defend, defensiveness, my therapist says, denial, id, superego, ego, mechanisms, rationalize, sublimation, reaction formation, idenficitaion, aggressor, displacement, peojection
Good Grief, Part 1: Understanding the Loss of Loved Ones
Good Grief, Part 1: Understanding the Loss of Loved Ones

Unfortunately, we are all subject to the whims of a randomly cruel universe. Whether it be a more “natural” death after ninety-five long years or a sudden and unexpected loss, they all hurt deeply in different ways. We become attached to the ones we love, and attachment is pain.

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Bridgette Gottwaldgrief, loss, overcoming loss, death, stages, meaningful, devastation, experience, stages of grief, messy, denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance, emotional symptoms, physical symptoms, discomfort, pain, immune system, aches