by David Bowman, LMFT | Aug 31, 2024 | Featured, LGBT, Life Coaching, Men's Issues, Therapy, Women's Issues
Readers of this blog may be surprised by my sudden reappearance in this space. The truth is that over the past three years I have focused my writing and spare time on finishing a project that has been in the works for me for over 10 years. My online course and e-book...
by David Bowman, LMFT | Nov 16, 2018 | Featured, LGBT, Life Coaching, Men's Issues, Therapy, Women's Issues
Stop Yourself from Stopping Yourself After spending some time doing psychotherapy, many of my clients have identified changes they would like to make in themselves and their lives, and we have worked together to map out goals, objectives, and even detailed plans and...
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...
