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Being there for your kids

Jonathan C. Robinson, PhD

Parenting is the most important job we have for which we almost never have any training. This podcast offers glimpses into effective parenting choices and communication

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#362
Yesterday · 3 min
Psychotherapy as Both Art and Science
When you assess how your life is going and decide that starting psychotherapy could be helpful in finding symptom relief and making healing changes, how do you know what kind of therapy works best for you? What qualities do you search for in your prospective therapist? The following podcast helps you answer these questions and find a therapist that will work best for you. For more on the topic, look for my new book, The Healing Journey: Overcoming Adversity on the Path to the Good Life, and buy your copy on amazonbooks.com. Follow this link: https://a.co/d/0dxH5xOL Blessings, Dr. Jon
#361
October 31 · 4 min
From Stuck to Soaring
Being stuck sucks. We usually stay stuck because we're used to it and can't imagine life ever being better. Helping patients soar in the light is the goal of mentalligent psychotherapy (MPT). Are you stuck? What's keeping you stuck? Do you want to soar? Check out my new book, The Healing Journey: Overcoming Adversity on the Path to the Good Life. Buy your copy on amazonbooks.com. Follow this link: https://a.co/d/0dxH5xOL Blessings, Dr. Jon
#360
October 24 · 3 min
Being grateful for the bad stuff is part of healing
It's easy to be grateful for the good stuff in our lives. We got lucky. We're living right. We're making good decisions. But what about the bad stuff. That's what keeps us stuck. Learning to soar on our healing journey begins with embracing the bad stuff and seeing how we grew from it. Find out how Ethan embraced gratitude in my new book, The Healing Journey: Overcoming Adversity on the Path to the Good Life. Buy your copy on amazonbook.com. Follow this link: https://a.co/d/0dxH5xOL Blessings, Dr. Jon
#359
October 17 · 3 min
Looking for Stress Relief--Try Becoming a Mompreneur
Did you know you could become a "Mompreneur?" It's a fun and lucrative way to stay at home and provide for your children, while also adding to the family income. My good friend and colleague, Emily Graham (www.mightymoms.net) shared with me tips on becoming a mompreneur. And now I pass them on to you. Blessings, Dr. Jon
#358
October 9 · 3 min
Positivity as a Source of Healing
Do you typically find yourself bogged down in what's wrong? Or are you in search of what's right in your life. Focusing on the positive can make a huge difference in affect, activity, and accomplishment. Amanda's healing journey from stuck in depression to soaring in positivity is chronicled in my new book, The Healing Journey: Overcoming Adversity on the Path to the Good Life. Buy your copy at amazonbooks.com. Follow this link: https://a.co/d/0dxH5xOL. Blessings, Dr. Jon
#357
October 4 · 3 min
Life Choices that Change Who You Are
Lots of life choices chang who we are. Where to go to school. Who to marry. Having children. Add to the list your choice to get started in counseling or psychotherapy. In this podcast I share tips about what to include in finding an effective therapist. I also identify how mentalligent psychotherapy (MPT) utilizes components that help you get unstuck and then begin to soar. Check it out at The Healing Journey: Overcoming Adversity on the Path to the Good Life, my new book on amazonbooks.com. Follow this link: https://a.co/d/0dxH5xOL Blessings, Dr. Jon
#356
September 27 · 3 min
Are You Loving Yourself?
Loving yourself is both a skill and an art. It leads to increased self-esteem and self-confidence. It helps you soar as you overcome adversity. With mentalligent psychotherapy (MPT) patients can learn to love themselves through the seamless weaving of mindfulness, positive psychology, and cognitive behavioral interventions. Check it out in my new book, The Healing Journey: Overcoming Adversity on the Path to the Good Life. Buy your copy on amazonbooks.com. Use this link: https://a.co/d/0dxH5xOL. Blessings, Dr. Jon
#355
September 12 · 3 min
Are You Raising Capable Kids?
We need a degree, certification, license, or other such credentials to do our jobs. We get nothing to help us learn to be good parents. What's with that? In this podcast, I'm sharing with you one of the hallmarks of effective parenting. For more examples, buy your copy of my new book, The Healing Journey: Overcoming Adversity on the Path to the Good Life on amazonbooks.com. Follow this link: https://a.co/d/0dxH5xOL Blessings, Dr. Jon
#354
September 5 · 3 min
Kids Say the Darnedest Thinngs
The most wonderful, curious, and confusing thing about parenting is what kids come up with. Each exchange is a challenge. Do you impart wisdom? scold? challenge? Or do you just go with it? My daughter, Rachel, asked me a question when she was 7 years old. "Who peed in your cornflakes?" Whoa!! What did you say? I was about to go off about her being disrespectful to her elders when I stopped myself and took a cleansing breath. Putting it all in perspective, I realized that she was right, as I was being unfair to her. Patients also say the darnedest things and it's our job as guides on their healing journeys to find teachable moments and shepherd them through the process. If I've piqued your curiosity, check out my new book, The Healing Journey: Overcoming Adversity on the Path to the Good Life. Buy your copy on amazonbooks.com. Follow this link: https://a.co/d/0dxH5xOL. Blessings, Dr. Jon
#353
August 28 · 4 min
Are You Benefiting from Neurogenesis?
There's a word you don't hear very often. When your brain is working as it is supposed to, it's shutting down often used but unhealthy neuropathways and shifting to new, healthier ones. Over time, these new pathways become engrained, and you are changing how you think, feel, and react. Andy had a lot of work to do to get unstuck, but he stayed with the process on his healing journey and is now soaring. Find more about his healing in my new book, The Healing Journey: Overcoming Adversity on the Path to the Good Life. Buy your copy at amazonbooks.com. Follow this link: https://a.co/d/0dxH5xOL. Blessings, Dr. Jon
#352
August 21 · 3 min
How grateful are you?
Being grateful is not just a moment. It's a mindset. Having an attitude of gratitude can set the context for each of your days. I know. You are grateful for your spouse, for your job, for life. That's the big stuff. How about the little stuff? She really made an effort to put together a great meal tonight. Your little girl gave you a big hug and said, "I love you, daddy" just out of the blue. You hit all green lights coming home from work. Gratitude energizes you. Give it a shot. Make a habit of noting in your journal even just one grateful moment each day. It will help you launch from your stuckness to soaring. For more, buy my new book, The Healing Journey: Overcoming Adversity on the Path to the Good Life, available on amazonbooks.com. Follow this link: https://a.co/d/0dxH5xOL Blessings, Dr. Jon
#351
August 15 · 3 min
Be Mindful. Get More Out of LIfe
Mindfulness is one of those funky words that only shrinks use. However, most of us know how to be present, to focus on your now. In Mentalligent Psychotherapy (MPT) this helps you set aside issues and redirecting your energy on what works to soar. Be mindful and embrace possibilities for soaring. Check out my new book, The Healing Journey: Overcoming Adversity on the Path to the Good Life. Buy your copy at amazonbooks.com. Click on this link: https://a.co/d/0dxH5xOL. Blessings, Dr. Jon
#350
August 9 · 3 min
Have You Ever Failed At Something?
Sadly, or happily, all of us fail at something. Sometimes we fail often. I would contend, however, that there is no such thing as failure, only an arbitrary limitation of options. Continue finding options and your worst nightmare will be just another opportunity for success. Avery wants a relationship but she is having "boy problems" in her sophomore year of college. While giving up and becoming a nun is her go-to option, I help her avoid that one and find more options. No failure there. Buy your copy of my new book, The Healing Journey: Overcoming Adversity on the Path to the Good Life, at amazonbooks.com. Follow this link: , https://a.co/d/0dxH5xOL Blessings, Dr. Jon
#349
August 1 · 3 min
Stop Being Stuck. Start Soaring
We all know what being stuck is like. How about soaring? Birds with large wingspans fly on thermal updrafts with their wings out, catching the current and soaring up and up on it. Imagine. If you find yourself stuck in lunhappy, unhealthy circumstances, starting your healing journey might just lead you out of being stuck and onto soaring. In my new book, The Healing Journey: Overcoming Adversity on the Path to the Good Life, I teach you and give plenty of examples of how to soar, making the most out of your life. Buy your copy at amazonbooks.com. Follow this link: https://a.co/d/0dxH5xOL. Blessings, Dr. Jon
#348
July 24 · 3 min
Same Ol' Same Ol'?
Does it feel like you are always walking through deep mud? Slogging along but not getting very far. Going in the same direction but not getting very far? Does it feel helpless? hopeless? Ya know, insanity is not just being bat bonkers. Insanity is also defined as doing the same thing over and over again, only to get the same results. Getting nowhere fast, huh? In my new book, The Healing Journey: Overcoming Adversity on the Path to the Good Life, I share with you many examples of people who are stuck,but finding new ways to get unstuck and to then soar. Do something new and get different results. Buy your copy of my book at amazonbooks.com. Follow this link: https://a.co/d/0dxH5xOL. Blessings, Dr. Jon
#347
July 18 · 3 min
Your Stuff - Burden or Bridge?
Things happen, ya know? We don't ask for the bad stuff. It just happens. For people with stress, anxiety, or depression, those things become a burden that weighs them down. What if we were able to convert that burden to a bridge. It would become a means to leave the past behind and forge ahead, soaring to t new tomorrow. Find April's story in my new book, The Healing Journey: Overcoming Adversity on the Path to the Good Life. Buy your copy on amazonbooks.com. Follow this link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CY9PQXMZ Blessings, Dr. Jon
#346
July 11 · 3 min
Are You Clueless?
If you are living your life, not knowing that there is a problem, and you don't know that you don't know, then you are clueless. If they haven't already, hopefully a good friend, spouse, co-worker will let you know how your words and actions impact them. Then, with good motivation, you can begin your healing journey in therapy. Being clueless is the starting point of getting well. In this podcast, I share with you the 4 stages of any healing journey. Your therapist is your guide and helping you get there is your therapist's goal. Check out my new book, The Healing Journey: Overcoming Adversity on the Path to the Good Life. Buy your copy on amazonbooks.com. Follow this link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CY9PQXMZ Blessings, Dr. Jon
#345
July 4 · 3 min
Is Being the Strong One Working for You?
Being strong emotionally in relationships is mostly a blessing to both you and your partner, until it isn't. If you are the one always doing the right thing, always putting your partner ahead of yourself, always giving in, then that's not strength. That's sacrifice, but not the healthy kind. The curse of being strong becomes a blessing when you set healthy boundaries, balance self-care with other-care, divide up responsibilities and delegate. Find out more about turning this relational curse into a blessing in my new book, The Healing Journey: Overcoming Adversity on the Path to the Good Life. Buy your copy on amazonbooks.com. Follow this link: https://www.amazon.com/Healing-Journey.../dp/B0CY9PQXMZ Blessings, Dr. Jon
#344
June 27 · 3 min
A New Word for you, Eudaimonia
Eudaimonia is a Greek word that captures "Self-Flourishing." When you are eudaimonic, you are embracing who you are, living in the moment, being self-compassionate, and finding the positive. What a great opportunity to enjoy your life to the fullest. Follow more of Shannon's story in my new book, The Healing Journey: Overcoming Adversity on the Path to the Good Life. Buy your copy at amazonbooks.com. Follow this link: https://www.amazon.com/Healing-Journey.../dp/B0CY9PQXMZ Blessings, Dr. Jon
#343
June 19 · 3 min
A Cautionary Tale of AI
AI, that is Artificial Intelligence, is here to stay. It's our job to use it wisely. I have resources to help you do just that. Don't let AI take control of you. Be you and stay in charge of how you use AI. When you, your kids, or others fall down that dark hole, understand your feelings and help others with active listening to climb back out of that hole. More on this in my new book, The Healing Journey: Overcoming Adversity on the Path to the Good Life. Buy your copy on amazonbooks.com. Follow this link: https://www.amazon.com/Healing-Journey.../dp/B0CY9PQXMZ Blessings, Dr. Jon

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