by David Bowman, LMFT | Aug 3, 2018 | Featured, Therapy
It is very rare that we have one, single motive or reason for doing what we do. We are mixtures of competing and colluding internal voices, both conscious and unconscious, that control our choices and range of possible behaviors. Understanding them to make intelligent...
by David Bowman, LMFT | Jul 3, 2018 | Featured, Therapy
A friend of mine was recently diagnosed with Bipolar Disorder II, a name for his collections of symptoms that was met with a great deal of ambivalence. On one hand, it’s “another thing that’s wrong with me,” he lamented, “but on the other, it’s a relief to know it’s a...
by David Bowman, LMFT | Jun 5, 2018 | Featured, Therapy
Having to make a difficult decision in life is often the cause for a course of therapy. What can make the decision so hard is the fact that there are so many complicating considerations, each carrying its own baggage, so that the decision is anything but clear cut....
by David Bowman, LMFT | May 1, 2018 | Featured, Recovery, Recovery Journal, Therapy
Jungian therapists see the roots of addiction growing in the need to escape the loneliness of human existence. In “The Art of Loving,” Erich Fromm show us how we manufacture romance, and even love, as palliatives for the pain and anguish of being alone in...
by David Bowman, LMFT | Apr 15, 2018 | Featured, LGBT, Relationships, Sex, Therapy
It was a frightening realization of my early 30s that had I not moved away from my family and my hometown when I did, I would already have been dead. I have no doubt that I would have committed suicide by the time I was 25, I felt so alone and ashamed and afraid of my...
by David Bowman, LMFT | Mar 18, 2018 | Featured, LGBT, Therapy
Both coming out of the closet earlier in life and professional and personal self-actualization (living your true self) later in life require the bravery to stand up for your convictions. In both cases you are standing up for yourself despite the consequences....
by David Bowman, LMFT | Feb 27, 2018 | Men's Issues, Therapy, Women's Issues
“I have treated many hundreds of patients. Among those in the second half of life – that is to say, over 35 – there has not been one whose problem in the last resort was not that of finding a religious outlook on life.” ― C.G. Jung, Modern Man in Search of a Soul...
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...
