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We are all in relationships of one kind or another - and sometimes need a flashlight.

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Articles By Dr. DJ

Your Family: Functional or Dysfunctional? 8 Characteristics

Your Family: Functional or Dysfunctional? 8 Characteristics In my previous life as a psychotherapist, my observations and my previous training led me to see with crystal clarity the power of a family in influencing its children as they advanced from baby to adolescence. …

Stay or Go? Separation: The Difficult Decision – 6 Questions to Test the Assumption You Should Stick it Out.

Stay or Go? The Hardest Decision: Separation And the 6 Questions that test the assumption that you should “Stick it out no matter what!” This hits upon one of the toughest questions we all face in marriage or in a relationship we thought …

The Problem Employee: What to Do? 7 Steps!

The Problem Employee and What to Do! Every organization has a problem employee and sometimes a lot more than one, right? I think I was one. I can attest that I honestly did not know I was. It was the only time I …

Do You Always Have to Be Right? Secret Number 4!

Having a Dynamite Intimate Relationship – Secret #4 Do You Always Have to Be Right? You know what screws up relationships quite often, if not daily? Assumptions! Assumptions often are the invisible fly in the ointment of many relationships. In my psychotherapy practice, I …

Should you tell the truth to a friend? 1 Big Issue!

SHOULD YOU TELL THE TRUTH ALWAYS ? by Dr. DJ You ask 10 people what a “friend” is and you will get 10 different answers, but one theme that shows up a LOT is something like, ‘someone I can be myself with” or …