by David Bowman, LMFT | Jan 31, 2018 | Therapy
You’ve realized that your friends’ advice is more about them than it is about you. You’ve thought so much about your issue that you’ve thought yourself into a state of paralysis. You know what needs to be done but you can’t seem to put it into action. You’re having...
by David Bowman, LMFT | Jan 30, 2018 | Therapy
Depression can sometimes be one of those creeping states of mind, body, and spirit that you don’t realize has come over you until you’re deep into the muck of it. Digging yourself out at that point is certainly possible—but who can think of such things when you’re...
by David Bowman, LMFT | Jan 15, 2018 | Men's Issues, Therapy, Women's Issues
Going to therapy means going on a shared journey with your therapist. For you, as the client, the focus is on finding relief, understanding, resolution, and perhaps, ultimately, change. For me, as the therapist, the focus is on providing you some guidelines, so you...
by David Bowman, LMFT | Dec 15, 2017 | Recovery, Recovery Journal, Therapy
“Relapse is part of recovery,” goes the saying. Not that we welcome relapse … but shit happens. For myself, and for many of my clients, a relapse after three years of sobriety, or five years of sobriety, is a vastly different affair from our initial climb out of the...
by David Bowman, LMFT | Dec 1, 2017 | Family, LGBT, Men's Issues
Many men, not only gay men, have issues with their fathers. Dozens of books have been written on the way that mid-century North American male culture de-emphasized emotional relationships between fathers and sons, and instead focused on competition, stoicism, and...
