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Coaching vs. Therapy – What’s Best for Me?

In the past decade, there has been a surge of professional coaches who are increasingly recognized as effective sources for facilitating personal growth. Not everyone wants the commitment of time…

Donna MarksApril 28, 2025

Mindset Therapy

Three Things to Achieve Success in Therapy

Over the years, I’ve worked with many people who want to improve their lives. Many of these people have been successful, but others haven’t been able to achieve their goals.…

Donna MarksApril 16, 2025

Addiction Recovery Sober Living Therapy

Three Differences Between Enabling and Disabling

With the disease of addiction, enabling is considered a bad thing – it’s called codependency. They make excuses, rescue, cover-up, and otherwise protect the impaired person from the consequences of…

Donna MarksJanuary 26, 2023

Addiction Mindset Recovery

Why Trying to Escape Your Feelings Keeps You Trapped in Them

When I quit smoking over thirty years ago, I felt a lot of anger. I thought it was because I missed cigarettes so much, part of the “grieving process.” But…

Donna MarksOctober 10, 2022

Addiction Mindset

The Difference Between Sex & Love Addiction

Many people often ask about the difference between sex addiction and love addiction. While they often go hand-in-hand, they are not the same. Sex addiction has nothing to do with…

Donna MarksJuly 17, 2021

Addiction Mindset Recovery

Do You Get “Triggered” to Relapse?

People in recovery learn how to recognize when they are “triggered” to relapse. An event over which they have no control causes the person to feel emotionally flooded, and the…

Donna MarksMarch 21, 2021

Mental Health Psychology

Do You Think You’re Allergic to Your Feelings?

Some people act as though they are allergic to their feelings. They avoid their emotions at all costs and will do anything to block, blunt, medicate, or stuff them.

Donna MarksMarch 13, 2021

Addiction Therapy

Filling-up Versus Covering-up The Hole Of Addiction

People who have decided to face their addiction have made a courageous attempt to reclaim their lives and cease self-destructive behavior. But stopping a single behavior does not usually end…

Donna MarksFebruary 12, 2021

Family Mental Health

Parents Of Dysfunctional Adults

Abuse of parents by children is rarely discussed. There’s plenty of help for adult children who have been raised in dysfunctional families, those harmed by parents with addiction, or some…

Donna MarksFebruary 6, 2021

Mental Health Mindset

Do I Think or Feel My Way Toward Healing? The Million Dollar Question

When recently interviewed as a prospective guest on a podcast, the question of cognitive vs. emotive therapy came up. The podcaster believed that cognitive therapy was the only way toward…

Donna MarksFebruary 1, 2021

Coaching vs. Therapy – What’s Best for Me?

Three Things to Achieve Success in Therapy

Three Differences Between Enabling and Disabling

Why Trying to Escape Your Feelings Keeps You Trapped in Them

The Difference Between Sex & Love Addiction

Do You Get “Triggered” to Relapse?

Do You Think You’re Allergic to Your Feelings?

Filling-up Versus Covering-up The Hole Of Addiction

Parents Of Dysfunctional Adults

Do I Think or Feel My Way Toward Healing? The Million Dollar Question

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