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...
by Ginger Sullivan | Dec 14, 2016 | Emotional Health
Who eats the shit pile? That’s a more profane form (of course, I will pick that route) of that childhood game of hot potato. Who’s going to be left holding the hot potato? “Not I!” screams the excited child. And he or she casts the steaming vegetable quickly across...
by Ginger Sullivan | Dec 7, 2016 | Emotional Health
One of my favorite acts at the circus is the trapeze. High-fliers doing the impossible. Defying gravity as they flip and fly gracefully across space in ways that humans are not meant to do. And they never seem to fall. (I’m not even sure why they have nets. They seem...
by Ginger Sullivan | Nov 30, 2016 | Uncategorized
It was only for five minutes. But it was the best five minutes of the whole day. In the middle of thawing the turkey (don’t you hate that part?) and making the stuffing, the phone rang. I thought it was a family member with the annual mandatory Thanksgiving greeting....
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