http://lifeskillsresourcegroup.com/orlando-counseling-blog Life Skills Resource Group : Development Tools for a Better You! Mon, 06 Sep 2010 21:11:05 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="120" caption="Jessica Stage, MSW, Registered Clinical Social Work Intern"][/caption] Hopefully many of you out there have a three day weekend in celebration of Labor Day. Labor day was first celebrated September 5th, 1882 in New York City. Labor day was meant to recognize the impact of the working ... http://lifeskillsresourcegroup.com/orlando-counseling-blog/?p=284 Karen Walsh, LCI, Life Coach “This is not who I am. This is not who I want to be. This is not who I was born to become.” Have you ever felt this way, or are you struggling with these emotions right now? If so, you probably think something ... http://lifeskillsresourcegroup.com/orlando-counseling-blog/?p=278 [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="150" caption="Kim Murphy, MS, Registered Mental Health Counselor Intern"][/caption] Everyone’s heard of co-dependency, a term originally used to describe the behavior of a person in a relationship with an addict. Today co-dependency is defined by Wikipedia as “having a tendency to behave in overly passive or ... http://lifeskillsresourcegroup.com/orlando-counseling-blog/?p=274 Published by Dr. Kay Julien, guest writer for Life Skills Resource Group I am a textbook middle child. I was born between a dynamic, talented, first-born and a fun-loving, darling, baby of the family. According to birth order theory, middle children have peacemaking tendencies, and I certainly do. What I’ve ... http://lifeskillsresourcegroup.com/orlando-counseling-blog/?p=257 [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="130" caption="Amy Smith, MS, Registered Mental Health Counselor Intern"][/caption] I am currently in the middle of a move and as I have been packing I have noticed some of the similarities between packing and counseling. Moving is about closing old doors to make way to open ... http://lifeskillsresourcegroup.com/orlando-counseling-blog/?p=254 [caption id="attachment_251" align="alignnone" width="200" caption="Garrett Fabico"][/caption] Everyone is struggling. Love and relationship, life and its purpose, depression and a need for direction; the list could continue indefinitely, populated by concerns inherent to existence as a human being. There is not a mature face on Earth that doesn’t know the ... http://lifeskillsresourcegroup.com/orlando-counseling-blog/?p=250 [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="165" caption="Jean Austin-Danner, Licensed Clinical Social Worker"][/caption] I am one of the counselors at Like Skills Resource Group in Orlando. I am also a human being with my own life experiences. This blog posting is written more from a personal, rather than professional, perspective. As I cleaned out ... http://lifeskillsresourcegroup.com/orlando-counseling-blog/?p=247 [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="120" caption="Jessica Stage, Registered Clinical Social Work Intern"][/caption] As one of the Orlando therapists at Life Skills Resource Group, I have the honor of serving clients from diverse backgrounds and ages. In my "day job" I work in a hospital, where I see patients every day who are ... http://lifeskillsresourcegroup.com/orlando-counseling-blog/?p=244 [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="130" caption="Amy Smith, MS, Registered Mental Health Counselor Intern"][/caption] Conflict is something everyone has to deal with sometime. Parents invariably have some conflict in their lives whether they are married, separated, or divorced. Often when families are dealing with divorce there is a heightened level of ... http://lifeskillsresourcegroup.com/orlando-counseling-blog/?p=241 [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="150" caption="Kim Murphy, MS, Registered Mental Health Counselor Intern"][/caption] Wikipedia describes unconditional positive regard, or UPR, (a term coined by humanist Psychologist Carl Rogers) as “blanket acceptance and support of a person, regardless of what the person says or does.” Now you may be thinking to ... http://lifeskillsresourcegroup.com/orlando-counseling-blog/?p=237