This week the Therapist in the Wild opines on how parents get a bad rap in therapy, and how it’s best to just talk to your shrink until you have compassionate understanding for all the sacrifices and efforts your parents made to make you great.
This week the Therapist in the Wild debunks the “Nice guys finish last” myth. Actually, nice guys finish first and Dr. Keith Witt will tell you why!
More priceless advice from Dr. Keith Witt, the Therapist in the Wild. Too many marriages are clueless too much of the time, and that means that many of us can love WAY better. Find out how you can have a Dialed-In Marriage instead.
This week the Therapist in the Wild takes us on a trip to your deathbed and what regrets you might be able to avoid – starting today!
This week the Therapist in the Wild reveals some basic truths about unconditional love–a misunderstood concept that has been the basis of a lot of confusion in the last fifty years.
Anybody who’s a parent will tell you about times that talking to their kid was like talking to a wall. In situations like these, the Therapist in the Wild has some priceless advice: Shut the F#@K Up!
We are a child centric culture with lots of respect for children, and that’s a good thing! One parenting skill that can get lost is rough and tumble play with kids. Kids that have rough and tumble play with parents–wrestling and roughhousing–do much better if their parents manage it so no one gets hurt and everyone has fun.
This week the Therapist in the Wild opines on emotional stupidity and emotional intelligence–two states we each inhabit every day.
This week the Therapist in the Wild shares a surprising fact about being a good parent — start with having a great relationship with your spouse!
Keith Witt on The Conscious Change Agent Web Show, with Jack Butler. In this video take on the question of Love. What is Love? How can we LOVE BETTER?
Today the Therapist in the Wild is here to talk about why you should not bother arguing with rigid-minded people.
There is no reason to have a discussion with people who refuse to see a point of view outside their own.
Due to popular demand and the continued interest in the 2 Rules for Bosses video, this week on Therapist in the Wild, Dr. Keith discusses the workplace and the three types of employees found in every work environment.
When you were conceived a universe came into being. At the center of that universe was a hero and that’s you. You were called into life with the care of your mother, and as you grew, life’s journeys transformed you, over and over again.
We all learn shame as toddlers responding to the disapprovals that parents regularly are compelled to try to control us with–the average 10 to 17 month old hears the word “no” once every eight waking minutes. Since kids learn to parent themselves from the ways they are parented, as we grow to be able to observe ourselves doing better or worse, we can disapprove of “worse” enough to feel guilt, remorse, or shame. Unfortunately, some of us can periodically dis ourselves so profoundly we become lost in self-loathing.
What myths and archetypes are currently guiding YOUR life? Yes, everybody moves according to archetypes and myths. We all do this.
There are unhappy “checking-in” couples as well, though, and while the words and mechanisms are similar, the energy is very, very different.
Borderline Personality Disorder is the great unseen epidemic that causes a great deal of strife for people and their relationship to spouses, family, friends, and in the workplace. Watch the video to find out more.
This week’s Therapist in the Wild and blog deal with narcissism–a big topic that we’re all familiar with to some extent. By many measures, pathological narcissism–feeling special and entitled while diminishing and objectifying others–is on the rise in America. I suspect this trend will swing towards more caring in the near future, but maybe I’m just being an optimistic guy.