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Head-Cleaners
Shrink-Rap Mental Health Articles
down-to-earth, logical, practical, tactical, savvy self-help
for hopefulness, happiness & smart mental health


by g. m. johnson, phd, clinical psychologist


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9/11 * abuse * anger * anxiety * children * christmas
college * coping strategies * couples * counselors
depression * dieting * encopresis * fear of flying * fears
finding a counselor & paying * guilt * hypnosis
hypnotizability * hypnosis recordings * negativity * parenting
performance anxiety * pets * pregnancy issues
problem solving * psychotherapy * p t s d * quit smoking
relationships & relationship breakups * resistance to change * schizophrenia * self esteem * self help * self improvement
sexual performance anxiety * sleep problems * stop smoking * stress * test anxiety * therapists * tinnitus * trust
weight loss & dieting

~ LAST ADDED TO 04/24/08 ~

also: soothing cool sites & exercises


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- 9 / 11 -

Anxiety & News & When People Are Frightened News People Get Rich
Some brief notes on dealing with anxiety and fending off messages of fear from major news outlets that see a high dollar value in frightened, anxious viewers.

Emotionally Surviving Disaster
Sustaining mental health: Coping with the anxiety, worry, helplessness, stress, mourning and other reactions in the aftermath of  9-11.

Practically Soothing Head-Cleaning Suggestions
for Worried, Frayed Nerves

Ways to redefine thinking to cope with and soothe frayed nerves, anxiety or anxiousness, worry and nervousness about war and terrorism.

Knocked Down But Not Out - Laid Off & Lost After 9-11
Understanding and coping with the psychological reactions and stresses (especially anger, nervousness, anxiousness, helplessness, hopelessness, worry & fears) that can be expected after being laid off because of terrorist attacks.



- anger -

Anger & Irritability
Practical insights into the underpinnings of some types of anger problems, ideas about avoiding anger feelings rather than coping with anger after it is experienced and information about hypnosis and hypnosis CDs & tapes that can help foster self control, hope and resiliency.

Angry Seven Year Old
The response to an email asking if hypnosis tapes might calm a seven year old's anger and school problems.

The Incredible Dumbness of Anger
Observations on the self-reinforcing, counter-productive dumbness of anger -- how anger causes physiological changes that actually temporarily reduce intelligence and can cause addictive responses to the experience of being angry.

Step-Fathering an Angry Step-Child
Some ideas about understanding and dealing with an angry child who is targeting his step-dad with his rage.



- anxiety -

Anxiety & News & When People Are Frightened News People Get Rich
Some brief notes on dealing with anxiety and fending off messages of fear from major news outlets that see a high dollar value in frightened viewers.

Anxiety, Practically Speaking
Practical information and ideas about
the protective underpinnings of anxiousness and anxiety (worry, nervousness, being nervous) and some strategies for coping.

Fear of Flying
faqs, fixes & hypnosis CDs & tapes

Some practical perspectives, information and ideas about
aviophobia - fear of flying - and the use of hypnosis CDs or tapes.

Fear of Flying Emails
Emails about fears about flying and their emailed responses (modified slightly -- personal information edited out, etc. -- to keep them confidential).

Fearing Flying & Dying & Similar Things
An article describing hypnosis CDs appropriate to the task of either setting aside fears about flying and dying for the time it takes to take a flight OR resolving fears of vulnerability, pain and dying. Details include how often to use the CDs, what to expect, etc.

Hypnosis CDs and Tapes For Anxious Kids
- Help for Parents, Help for Children -

Hypnosis CDs and hypnosis tapes and other resources that can help parents understand and help their kids deal with anxiousness, worry, fears, fearfulness, upset and distress.

Performance Anxiety & Test Anxiety & Kids
- Help for Parents, Help for Children -

Hypnosis CDs and hypnosis tapes and other resources that can help parents understand and help their kids deal with the counter-productive elements of performance anxiety and test anxiety and the self-sabotaging anxieties they experience just thinking about preparing for performances and tests.

How Do Head-Cleaners Hypnosis CDs & Tapes Work
& What Do I Do & What Do I Expect?

A brief run-down of how the hypnosis tapes and hypnosis CDs help, how to pick the one(s) you want, how often they get listened to, what the listener should expect. An emailed question about using hypnosis CDs and tapes for anxiety and the emailed response.



- children -

Angry Seven Year Old
The response to an email asking if hypnosis tapes might calm a seven year old's anger and school problems.

Children & Parenting-Related Resources
Info, Ideas, Hypnosis Tapes & CDs

Hypnosis CDs and hypnosis tapes and other resources that can help parents help their kids with anxiousness, bad habits, test-anxiety, fears, sleeplessness, encopresis, enuresis, etc.

Divorce Stresses and Messes and Ways to Watch Out
So You Don't Damage Your Child

Issues and suggestions for handling them so divorce doesn't do more hurt than it has to to the children involved.

Hypnosis Tapes and a Ten Year Old with Fears of Storms
The response to an email asking about hypnosis tapes for a ten year old's fears of storms.

Kidly Issues - Helping Kids
Working with kids on self-improvement, self-control and changes in attitudes and behaviors and the issues faced when parents are working to help their kids with anxiousness, bad habits, test-anxiety, fears, sleeplessness, encopresis, enuresis, and other such challenges.

Molested Child - Can Hypnosis Help?
The response to an email asking if hypnosis tapes might help a young child "get past" being molested.

Performance Anxiety & Test Anxiety & Kids
- Help for Parents, Help for Children -

Hypnosis CDs and hypnosis tapes and other resources that can help parents understand and help their kids deal with the counter-productive elements of performance anxiety and test anxiety and the self-sabotaging anxieties they experience just thinking about preparing for performances and tests.

The Raising of a Confident Puppy
A brief bunch of ideas, observations and recommendations on how and why to raise a self-confident puppy (and/or a confident child).



- christmas -

Dealing With Christmas Stress:
Giving Yourself Permission To Not Participate In Christmas Gift Giving
Can Reduce Lots of Tension and Avoid Lots of Tears

Because of the increasing toll on mental health that the expectations of Christmas spending are causing, it is strongly recommended that anyone who believes he or she is likely to be unhappy because of the expectations should simply call a halt, time-out, I quit.



- college -

Dr. J's Incomplete Compendium
of Good Information & Slick Strategies for College Success

Practical strategies for picking classes, organizing class schedules, studying and test-taking.



- coping & coping skills -

A Thought or Two About the Changeableness and Rearrangeableness of Anyone's View of "Reality"
A brief little set of comments on how one's situation and struggles can be managed and changed and in some cases even eliminated by changing one's perspective or "view."

A Way That It Might All Just Possibly Work
A logical look at a possible, plausible way to believe there might be an afterlife and a purpose to life and a purpose to all the pain, stress and distress -- for those who find it difficult to believe in the spiritual and who could use a way to find the possibility of hope that life is not futile and loss is not real.

Dealing With Christmas Stress:
Giving Yourself Permission To Not Participate In Christmas Gift Giving
Can Reduce Lots of Tension and Avoid Lots of Tears

Because of the increasing toll on mental health that the expectations of Christmas spending are causing, it is strongly recommended that anyone who believes he or she is likely to be unhappy because of the expectations should simply call a halt, time-out, I quit.

Forethoughts for Structuring Coping.
Four challenges, four tools, for structuring one's coping. (A brief, brief note.)

How to Survive and Thrive After Being Abused
Some brief observations on minimizing the negatives and promoting the positive consequences of having been abused.

Logically, How
There is empowering, powerful coping available in assuming that life might actually have purpose - and in assuming that we keep living after dying with memories in tact. Though there is no possible way to prove this is fact, there is no way to prove that it isn't. Further, though many people say they need to actually see some proof of what's what, there are actually ways you can see some - and a logic to how there could be so much grief and a logic to how God could be there. This is not a religious issue, its a matter of practical, logical living. It's a matter of acknowledging how little we know and being logical about how one assumes things. This does not need to be a religious issue, nor does it need to even touch on religion. This brief, little 200 page book offers some logical, plausible, non-religious, down-to-earth observations and suggestions that can turn just the possibility that there is more to life than meets the eye into a powerfully potent, plausible potential for coping with life and its struggles.   (This is a book, not an article, and, unlike the articles listed on this webpage, it is for sale at a modest price. Purchase helps support this site and its offerings.)

Negativity Slumps: Being Down in the Dumps
Some observations and tips on dealing with profound and prolonged feelings of negativity about one's self, one's life and one's prospects. Ideas about dealing with hopelessness and helplessness and the anxiousness and gloom that can result from the stresses of life.

Relying on Feel to Decide What is Real
May Have It's Appeal But Be Folly

A brief note or two on the complexity and un-reality of "reality" and on the value of realizing that reality is actually very much a product of attitude.

What Can You Do When All You Can Do Is All You Can Do
And It Falls Very Short of What You Had Thought
You Should Think You Should Do?

Observations from a therapist's rocker on practical and
impractical problem solving when options are limited and poor.



- couples, coupling -

Jumpy and Touchy and Can't Sleep With New Husband
An email response about being jumpy and struggling to get used to sleeping with new husband.

Practices Tactical, Practical, Not
to make things much better or make things much not

Impolite perspectives on practices impractical
in relationships and other situations.

Worrying A Relationship Into the Ground
Ideas about dealing with worry in a relationship - especially, avoiding worrying a relationship to death with fears that do nothing good. Recommendations for hypnosis recordings that might help.


see also
relationships &
relationship breakups



- dieting, weight loss -

see weight loss



- depression, negativity -

Anti-depressants vs. Hypnosis tapes
Response to an individual asking if hypnosis tapes could be used instead of anti-depressants in the treatment of depression.

Negativity Slumps: Being Down in the Dumps
Some observations and tips on dealing with profound and prolonged feelings of negativity about one's self, one's life and one's prospects. Ideas about dealing with hopelessness and helplessness and the anxiousness and depression and gloom that can result from the stresses of life.



- encopresis -

Dealing with Encopresis
Some practical suggestions about dealing with a child's encopresis.



- guilt -

Dealing With Guilt Feelings
After Placing a Parent in a Nursing Home

A response to an email about guilt feelings and remorse following placing a parent in a foster care setting.

Glitches and Hitches - Keeping Count of Mistakes
Some thoughts and logic trivia on the subject of possible pitfalls -- mistakes that can be made -- while keeping track of mistakes.

Guilt for Better or Worse
Guilt as a natural, adaptive, mental health -promoting, mental mechanism that can make one either smarter or less smart depending on how it is handled.

Hindsight, Mindsight - Nothing is 20-20
Brief facts and/or observations about choices and the complexity of assessing past acts and debriefing one's self.

The Quilt of Guilt Gets Built to the Hilt
Comments on the intense struggle with and feelings of guilt that can haunt and plague childhood molestation survivors in adulthood.

Mindfulness of the Matrix and What To Do What To Do
An obtuse observation and query on having had one's reality and sense of self and the world twisted in childhood. (Mindfulness of the matrix is a means to mental health.)

Once Upon a Guilty Thought
A story or three intended to be around and about about guilty -- about anger and wrath and straying from path, regret and the wisdom of hurting. (Don't look for clear thought -- in this writing there's not. It's a circular path aimed at healing.)



- hypnosis -

Children & Parenting-Related Resources
Info, Ideas, Hypnosis Tapes & CDs

Hypnosis CDs and hypnosis tapes and other resources that can help parents help their kids in dealing with anxiety, worry, trauma and the after effects of traumatization, depression, fears, bad habits, negativity, sleeplessness, encopresis, enuresis, etc.

"Control Freak" Leanings & Hypnosis Listenings
An answer to the question:  Can a person that tends to be a control freak benefit from using hypnosis?

Hypnosis:   a Brief History & Explanation
The history of hypnosis in a nutshell, explanations of conscious versus unconscious thinking, elements and uses of hypnosis and an overview of head-cleaners hypnosis CDs and hypnosis tapes.

"I can't be hypnotized."
A brief discussion of whether it may be true that you can be hypnotized -- or can let yourself make use of self-hypnosis strategies and hypnosis CDs and hypnosis tapes.

Indirect, Permissive Hypnotic Techniques
A very brief explanation of why indirect, permissive hypnotic techniques are so effective, safe and promotive of self-esteem, independence and security.

Mindfulness of the Matrix and What To Do What To Do
An obtuse observation and query on having had one's reality and sense of self and the world twisted in childhood.




- hypnosis CDs & hypnosis tapes -

Fearing Flying & Dying & Similar Things
An article describing hypnosis CDs appropriate to the task of either setting aside fears about flying and dying for the time it takes to take a flight OR resolving fears of vulnerability, pain and dying. Details include how often to use the CDs, what to expect, etc.

Head-Cleaners Dieting Hypnosis CDs & Tapes,
Self-Confidence and Self-Esteem and Effects and Such

Email questions about Head-Cleaners Hypnosis Tapes/CDs and whether they may help and in what ways.

Head-Cleaners Performance Anxiety -related emails
Email questions about Head-Cleaners hypnosis tapes/CDs, performance anxiety, self-confidence.

How Do Head-Cleaners Hypnosis CDs and Hypnosis Tapes Work & What Do I Do & What Do I Expect?
A brief run-down of how the tapes & CDs help, how to pick the one you want, how often they get listened to, what the listener should expect. An emailed question about using hypnosis tapes for anxiety and the emailed response.

"I can't be hypnotized."
A brief discussion of whether it may be true that you can be hypnotized.

Indirect, Permissive Hypnotic Techniques
A very brief explanation of why indirect, permissive hypnotic techniques are so effective, safe and promotive of self-esteem, independence and security.

Picking a Head-Cleaners Hypnosis Recording
A few notes on how to decide which hypnosis CD or tape might be best for you based on the descriptions provided.

The Relative Acceleration of Personal Growth
A brief response to a brief email comment about wanting fast results from hypnosis.

Resiliency & Hope
A very brief verbal exercise focusing on increasing the sense of resiliency and hope. This is something of a sample of head-cleaners wordings that is read rather than heard.

Successfully Using Head-Cleaners Tapes & CDs
Approaches to maximize the use of head-cleaners hypnosis recordings, whether using them for anxiety, sleeplessness, headaches, self-control, eating, dieting, adjustment to loss, anger problems, depression, bad habits or whatever.



- parenting -

Anger vs. Encouragement
in Parenting Troubling, Angering, Frustrating Kids

A few notes on the issue of anger in parenting and the limits that there are on self-control -- some notes on responsibility, consequences and the limited options in parenting.

Children & Parenting-Related Resources
Info, Ideas, Hypnosis Tapes & CDs

Hypnosis CDs and hypnosis tapes and other resources that can help parents help their kids deal with anxiousness, fears, worry, trauma, self-control, sleeplessness and such.

Consistency, Consistency, Consistency
A few words of explanation about why "consistency" is so strongly recommended for parents to try to maintain in their parenting.

Divorce Stresses and Messes and Ways to Watch Out
So You Don't Damage Your Child

Issues and suggestions for handling them so divorce doesn't do more hurt than it has to to the children involved.

Kidly Issues - Helping Kids
Working with kids on self-improvement, self-control.

Influences on Children's Emotional and Moral Development and the Monitoring of Movies and Their Messages
Some thoughts on the potency of the messages in movies.

Molested Child - Can Hypnosis Help?
The response to an email asking if hypnosis tapes might help a young child "get past" being molested.

Parenting & Protecting Internet-Interested Kids
Some of the dangers and some rules to avoid anxiety and catastrophe when letting children use the internet. For both worried and unworried parents.

Parenting Strategies for Cyberspace Safety,
Email, Kids and Privacy

Some tips for handling basic safety issues and kid concerns when kids are going to be using the internet.

Performance Anxiety & Test Anxiety & Kids
- Help for Parents, Help for Children -

Hypnosis CDs and hypnosis tapes and other resources that can help parents understand and help their kids deal with the counter-productive elements of performance anxiety and test anxiety and the self-sabotaging anxieties they experience just thinking about preparing for performances and tests.

The Raising of a Confident Puppy
A brief bunch of ideas, observations and recommendations on how and why to raise a self-confident puppy (and/or a confident child).

Step-Fathering an Angry Step-Child
Some ideas about understanding and dealing with an angry child who is targeting his step-dad with his rage.

Taking Parental Control in Crises
With Poor Functioning Young Adult Children

Thoughts about options for parents in crises created by poor functioning kids.

Visitation Links &
a Couple of Comments on Divorce & Your Child

Some links to visitation length guidelines for younger children and some comments about not damaging your child when angry and upset and getting used to divorce.


- performance -

Children & Parenting-Related Resources
Info, Ideas, Hypnosis Tapes & CDs

Hypnosis CDs and hypnosis tapes and other resources that can help parents help their kids.

Emails & Notes Re: Male Sexual Performance Anxiety
A response to an email asking about help with male sexual performance anxiety.

Performance Anxiety & Test Anxiety & Hypnosis & such
Understanding and coping with performance anxiety and test anxiety -- how anxiety interferes with functioning in general and with performance (performance anxiety) and test-taking (test anxiety) in particular. Info about using hypnosis and hypnosis CDs or tapes.

Performance Anxiety & Test Anxiety & Kids
- Help for Parents, Help for Children -

Hypnosis CDs and hypnosis tapes and other resources that can help parents understand and help their kids deal with the counter-productive elements of performance anxiety and test anxiety and the self-sabotaging anxieties they experience just thinking about preparing for performances and tests.

Sexual Drive, Sexual Dysfunction, Sexual Performance - Issues Emails
Emails and responses regarding sexual difficulties.

Sports Performance, Public Speaking, Being "In the Zone" and Hypnosis
Information and ideas with regard to performance and hypnosis.

Head-Cleaners Performance Anxiety Hypnosis Tapes/CDs, Self-Confidence and Self-Esteem and Effects and Such
Email questions about Head-Cleaners hypnosis tapes/CDs, performance anxiety, self-confidence.



- pets -

Adding a Puppy and Dog to Your Life
Some notes on picking a puppy or dog.

Three Thoughts, Six Issues and Three Things In
The House Training of a Confident Puppy

Some notes on training a puppy to be house-appropriate for maximum mental health and minimum stress.

Pets, Support and Mental Health
Some notes on pets and their beneficial support as an asset to mental health.

The Raising of a Confident Puppy
A brief bunch of ideas, observations and recommendations on how and why to raise a self-confident puppy (and/or a confident child).

- pregnancy -

Pregnancy Issues & Hypnosis
Some notes on the use of hypnosis for various issues of pregnancy -- feeling unpretty, anxieties, attitude, discomfort, depression, energy, irritability, fears, eating, nausea, sickness, smoking, stress, drinking, fears, self-image issues, etc.



- problem solving -

What Can You Do When All You Can Do Is All You Can Do
And It Falls Very Short of What You Had Thought
You Should Think You Should Do?

Observations from a therapist's rocker on practical and
impractical problem solving when options are limited and poor.

Negativity Slumps: Being Down in the Dumps
Some observations and tips on dealing with profound and prolonged feelings of negativity about one's self, one's life and one's prospects.



- psychotherapy -

I Don't Want To Say, I Don't Want To Say
Some thoughts about what to do when the concerns about things from the past are too tough to live with but too tough to talk about, too.

Finding a Psychotherapist, Counselor, "Shrink"
Finding a therapist to help with anxiety (or depression or eating disorder or whatever) can make one anxious or nervous (and depressed and whatever). Ideas about being practical and consumer-minded in hiring this kind of helper.

Is My Therapist Hurting Me?
An email question about a first counseling session that didn't seem to go right, possibly because of a misunderstanding -- and a response.

Self-Loathing and
Having a Tough Time Finding a Therapist

A response to an email from a person who struggles with self-directed anger and frustration who is having trouble finding a therapist she can be comfortable with.



- PTSD & Surviving Abuse -

How to Survive and Thrive After Being Abused
Some brief observations on minimizing the negatives and promoting the positive consequences of having been abused.

Logically, How
One of the most powerful coping strategies available is through a perspective on life that assumes that life might have purpose and might extend on after death. This does not need to be a religious issue, nor does it need to even touch on religion. This brief, little 200 page book offers some logical, plausible, non-religious, down-to-earth observations and suggestions that can turn just the possibility that there is more to life than meets the eye into a powerfully potent, plausible potential for coping with life and its struggles. (This is a book, not an article, and, unlike the articles listed on this webpage, it is for sale at a modest price. Purchase helps support this site and its offerings.)

Negativity Slumps: Being Down in the Dumps
Some observations and tips on dealing with profound and prolonged feelings of negativity about one's self, one's life and one's prospects.

PostTraumatic Stress, PTSD
& Hypnosis & Head-Cleaners Tapes & CDs

Practical information and observations about dealing with some of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder's and Post-Traumatic Stress Syndrome's issues -- anxiety, memories (vs. false memories), depression, anger problems, poor self esteem & other issues related to the aftermath of trauma -- and the possibility of using hypnosis.



- Quit Smoking -

Quit Smoking Emails
Hypnosis & Smoking & Shrink Rap, Oh My!

Some ideas, sarcasm and information given to email writers who ask about hypnosis CDs and hypnosis tapes and the quitting of smoking (or fantasies of).

Quitting Smoking
Some practical ideas & insights into the challenge of quitting smoking and avoiding relapse -- and the possibility of using hypnosis to help stop smoking effectively.




- relationships &
relationship breakups
-


Dealing With Your Self and Your Life After A Break-Up
(Gleaning Wisdom and Worth From Adversity)

After a breakup there are high intensity emotions and negative self-recriminations that are impractical and self-defeating. A better tactic to take is to turn the situation into an opportunity to glean both wisdom and worth and to foster self development. This is a time when hypnosis recordings can be an excellent aid - reducing troubling thoughts and unwanted memories, fostering a sense of resiliency and promoting a sense of increasing wisdom and worth (suggestions are given for particularly helpful, empowering Head-Cleaners hypnosis recordings).

Post-Breakup Muddled Mourning
An email & response regarding regrets and love and wanting to put back together a broken relationship that seems to have broken for good cause. (e.g., "I screwed up by not liking who he turned out to be.")

Practices Tactical, Practical, Not
to make things much better or make things much not

Impolite perspectives on practices impractical
in relationships and other situations.

Self-Perpetuating Inadequacies
and Mindless, Muddled Jealousies

Some reasons why some people experience sabotaging, unwarranted intense feelings of jealousy and paranoia as their relationships go well for awhile.

Sexual Drive, Sexual Dysfunction, Sexual Performance - Issues Emails
Emails and responses regarding sexual difficulties.

Some Keys to Good Relationships
Some thoughts that can help relationship success.

Tails and Travails - When Relationshiping Is Just Not Working
Emails. Some thoughts that can help motivate ending a relationship that is not working when dependent anxiety is causing hesitancy.

Worrying A Relationship Into the Ground - Advice For De-Programming Deep Seated Worries, Unsettling, Destructive and Very Unsound
Advice for erasing the deep-seated worries that cause so much upset and dismay in new relationships. Recommendations for hypnosis recordings that might be very helpful.

Worrying A Relationship Into the Ground - Worrying S/He Might Leave Til' S/He's No Longer Around
Ideas about dealing with worry in a relationship - especially, avoiding worrying a relationship to death with fears that do nothing good. Recommendations for hypnosis recordings that might help.

see also
couples
relationships
trust



- resistance to change -

Resistance to Change
Some of the reasons for change being so tough to make happen, even when it seems change would be good for one's mental health.

Self-Esteem and Self-Loathing and Hung-Up, Can't Change
Practical strategies for understanding and changing very low self-esteem, as well as coping with the anxieties that come up in self-improvement of self-esteem.

Maximizing Self-Improvement
Understanding and dealing with the anxieties and other issues that cause resistance to change and make self-improvement strategies very difficult sometimes.

Mindfulness of the Matrix and What To Do What To Do
An obtuse observation and query on having had one's reality and sense of self and the world twisted in childhood.



- schizophrenia -

The Survival of Schizophrenia, the Medications for Schizophrenia and the Mental Health System That is There to Help Those with Schizophrenia
A brief little group of comments about the challenges of schizophrenia and some thoughts on surviving the disease, the meds and the individuals and attitudes found in the mental health system.



- self-esteem -

Forgive, Don't Forget
Comments about the issue of forgiving and forgetting -- especially the possibility of the former and the folly of the latter.

Self-Esteem and Self-Loathing and Hung-Up, Can't Change
Practical strategies for understanding and changing very low self-esteem, as well as coping with the anxieties that come up in self-improvement of self-esteem.

Self-Esteem and Self-Loathing and Hypnosis Self Help
Head-Cleaners hypnosis CDs and tapes for the self-esteemally challenged.

Self-Loathing and
Having a Tough Time Finding a Therapist
Finding a therapist to help with anxiety (or depression or eating disorder or whatever) can make one anxious or nervous (and depressed and whatever). Ideas about being practical and consumer-minded in hiring this kind of helper.



- self-help -

Resistance to Change
Some of the reasons for change being so tough to make happen.

Self-Esteem and Self-Loathing and Hung-Up, Can't Change
Practical strategies for understanding and changing very low self-esteem, as well as coping with the anxieties that come up in self-improvement of self-esteem.

Maximizing Self-Improvement
Understanding and dealing with the anxieties and other issues that cause resistance to change and make self-improvement strategies very difficult sometimes.

A Thought or Two About Changeableness and Rearrangeableness of Anyone's View of "Reality"
Thoughts on how reality is very changeable -- that one cannot only change the future but can change the present and past as well. Some brief thoughts of how one can decide on which reality works the best to achieve optimal mental health and happiness.

Logically, How
One of the most powerful coping strategies available is through a perspective on life that assumes that life might have purpose and might extend on after death. This does not need to be a religious issue, nor does it need to even touch on religion. This brief, little 200 page book offers some logical, plausible, non-religious, down-to-earth observations and suggestions that can turn just the possibility that there is more to life than meets the eye into a powerfully potent, plausible potential for coping with life and its struggles. (This is a book, not an article, and, unlike the articles listed on this webpage, it is for sale at a modest price. Purchase helps support this site and its offerings.)

Mindfulness of the Matrix and What To Do What To Do
An obtuse observation and query on having had one's reality and sense of self and the world twisted in childhood.


- self-help & kids -

Children & Parenting-Related Resources
Info, Ideas, Hypnosis Tapes & CDs

Hypnosis CDs and hypnosis tapes and other resources that can help parents help their kids.

Helping Kids
Understanding and dealing with the anxieties, worries and other issues that cause kids to have problems making changes when they want to change bad habits, anxiousness or other problems.

Performance Anxiety & Test Anxiety & Kids
- Help for Parents, Help for Children -

Hypnosis CDs and hypnosis tapes and other resources that can help parents understand and help their kids deal with the counter-productive elements of performance anxiety and test anxiety and the self-sabotaging anxieties they experience just thinking about preparing for performances and tests.



- sleep -

Dealing with Sleep Problems in Kids & Adults
Help understanding behavioral issues, emotional issues and anxiousness that can contribute to sleep problems & sleeplessness & strategies for dealing with these. Help for dealing with the behavioral issues, not just the anxiousness, that may cause kids' sleep problems.



- stress -

Dealing with Stress
Information about what stress is and how to cope with stress and keep stress to practical levels to avoid burnout and nervousness.

Dealing With Christmas Stress:
Giving Yourself Permission To Not Participate In Christmas Gift Giving
Can Reduce Lots of Tension and Avoid Lots of Tears

Because of the increasing toll on mental health that the expectations of Christmas spending are causing, it is strongly recommended that anyone who believes he or she is likely to be unhappy because of the expectations should simply call a halt, time-out, I quit.


- test-anxiety -

Performance Anxiety & Test Anxiety & Hypnosis & such
Understanding and coping with performance anxiety and test anxiety -- how anxiety interferes with functioning in general and with performance (performance anxiety) and test-taking (test anxiety) in particular. Info about using hypnosis and hypnosis CDs or tapes.

test anxiety emails
Emails from moms and others about test anxious issues.



- tinnitus -

Tinnitus at Night
Using hypnosis, hypnosis tapes to deal with tinnitus (ringing in the ears).



- trust -

Forgive, Don't Forget
Comments about the issue of forgiving and forgetting -- especially the possibility of the former and the folly of the latter.

Self-Perpetuating Inadequacies
and Mindless, Muddled Jealousies

Some reasons why some people experience sabotaging, unwarranted intense feelings of jealousy and paranoia as their relationships go well for awhile.

Trust In The Dust Emails
More assorted Emails to and from Dr. J. on the issue of trust.

Trust Issues Emails - Answers & Thoughts -
Tips for Awareness, Wanted or Not

Understanding the anxieties and stresses and the practical and impractical strategies that people use to define
and deal with issues of "trust."

Trust Issues with Self & Others
Understanding the anxieties and stresses and the practical and impractical strategies that people use to define
and deal with issues of "trust."

Trust Issues with Someone You Love
But Don't Really Know

Thoughts on thinking you have a "trust" issue because you can't seem to get your brain to let you trust someone you don't really know.

Trust Issues with Someone You've Been With For Years
Thoughts on thinking you have to divorce someone you can't trust.

Trust Struggles Emails
re: Challenges in Loving and Trusting

Emails and observations focused on the issues of dealing with trusting when trusting seems to hurt and be so anxiety provoking.

Further Trust Issues with Someone You've Been With For Years
Thoughts on thinking you have to divorce someone you can't trust.



- weight loss, dieting -

Emotional Eating and a Way to Lose Weight
A few brief notes on emotional eating and using hypnosis to deal with weight loss problems.

Head-Cleaners Dieting Hypnosis Tapes/CDs,
Self-Confidence and Self-Esteem and Effects and Such

Email questions about Head-Cleaners Hypnosis Tapes/CDs and whether they may help and in what ways.

Weight Loss Tips
Tips for more effective dieting and weight loss. Help for those wanting to lose weight.


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Sometimes, if not most times, it is through our infirmities that we are granted the greatest learning and growth. It is an irony of life that we fear and run from pain and fear and avoid going without if at all possible and yet these -- pain and going without -- are inseparably linked to appreciation, joy and ecstatic happiness. Who can enjoy a piece of bread with more ecstasy than someone who has known the fear and hunger of nearly starving? Who can feel ecstasy and appreciation of a thing that hasn't long yearned and strove and worked for that thing? Who can appreciate their children more than those who have almost lost them? - Only those who have lost theirs.   ~ Poor Rachel's Almanac



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Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet (multimedia)
resiliency & hope
four tools, four tasks
Elemental Resources Re: Ideas and Issues About Modifying, Muddling and/or Mugging the Cosmos

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