What is Your Purpose?
What brings meaning to your life? I am not asking because I have the right answer. I am asking because I want you to have an answer, an...
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Dr. Lise Deguire
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Staying Alive: Lessons from my Brother's Suicide
(Re-released in memory of my brother, and in honor of National Suicide Prevention Month.) Chances are, you never met my brother. There...
Staying Alive: Lessons from my Brother's Suicide
Misery passes, if you can hold on long enough. Everything passes, in time. In the meantime, if you need help, get help.
On Marshmallows and Pandemics
We are all learning a lesson in the value of delaying gratification in this year of COVID. This ability could save all our lives.
Hello, Please, and Thank You: Building Resilience Skills (Part 5 of 5)
Resilient people tend to be socially adept, able to handle complex situations, able to make and keep connections with others.
L is for Love: Building Resilience Skills (Part 4)
I have known many heroes. There was my surgeon, Dr. John Constable, who saved my life when I was little, and provided me with kindness...
How are You Coping?: Building Resilience Skills (Part 3)
In week seven of quarantine, how are you managing your time? Are you contemplating new projects around your home? Catching up with old...
O is for Optimism: Building Resilience Skills (Part 2)
When Mister Rogers was a little boy and not yet a Mister, he found current events frightening. According to the news, tragedies were...
Finding Gratitude in a Desolate Time: Building Resilience Skills (Part 1)
For the last year, I have been speaking about psychological resilience, almost by accident. I didn’t really intend to lecture; I started...
Five Grounding Tips for a Strange Time
We live in a quarantined area, and have been instructed to stay home as much as possible. I have never been so grateful to live in a...
The Marriage Ninja
What do you think is the most difficult psychotherapy to do well? Child therapy? Treating the terminally ill? No. There is one request...
Why Your Therapist Can't Be Your Friend
Have you ever fantasized about being friends with your therapist? She smiles when you arrive, and she truly likes you. Her eyes shine...
Flashback Girl Interviews Herself
Welcome to the new followers who have recently come on board. I thought it would be good to re-introduce myself and my work for those of...
Staying Alive: Lessons from my Brother's Suicide
(Re-released today, in memory of my brother, and in honor of National Suicide Prevention Month.) Chances are, you never met my brother....
It's Not that Easy Being Burned
I write today wrapped in old clothes I don’t care about, so the bleeding won’t matter. Half of my body shines luminous scarlet, as my...
Over the River and Through the Woods: Our Dinner Tour Begins
“We should start a Dinner Tour,” said my husband. “What? What’s a Dinner Tour? It sounds like we are Led Zeppelin, combined with a dinner...
When Mother Doesn't Know Best
I used to love P.D. Eastman’s book, Are You My Mother? The story was about a baby bird whose mother was nowhere to be found when he...
What is Your Purpose?
What brings meaning to your life? I am not asking because I have the right answer. I am asking because I want you to have an answer, an...
The Curse of Being the "Easy" Child
I still remember my daughter’s third grade teacher conference, although it happened over a decade ago. Ms. P. and I squatted on the...
What is an "Internal Locus of Control" and How do You Get One?
When disappointments befall you, what do you think? Do you mutter, “Of course, it’s just my luck.” Or, “Nothing ever works out for me.”...
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