by Ginger Sullivan | Jan 31, 2017 | Emotional Health, Relational Intimacy
I am writing this at 35,000 feet. It’s dark out the window portal, not that I could tell where I am anyway. One farm blends into another. I imagine I am somewhere between Indiana and Iowa, as I cross the country to visit my son in boarding school. Two days of travel...
by Ginger Sullivan | Jan 16, 2017 | Emotional Health
New Year, New You. I hate that phrase. Because I hate that idea. Makes it sound like something is wrong with me. Like I need some kind of “new me.” Screw that. I want to have – and appreciate – the old me. The one that climbed out of a difficult childhood and a more...
by Ginger Sullivan | Jan 9, 2017 | Emotional Health
A common dynamic I often experience in working with patients is the resistance to emotionally outgrow one’s parents. A patient often feels guilt and shame in reaching new psychological heights and thus, abandoning his or her parents by leaving them behind in their own...
by Ginger Sullivan | Jan 2, 2017 | Emotional Health
“If it’s not one thing, it’s another.” Sounds so cynical. But it’s true. Life is not meant to be problem-free. Somehow, we indoctrinated this idea that by solving all our problems, or even solving the one problem that we are focused on in this moment, then we will be...
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