self-awareness – Lydia Minear LPC

On the Parent, Adult, & Child Within: The Voices that Guide Us

Psychotherapist & founder of Transactional Analysis, Eric Berne, is famous for creating P-A-C (Parent-Adult-Child), a theory about personality based on the idea that each person contains three psychological positions or “voices” that guide our interactions & choices. I have found that this creative framework allows us an opportunity to better understand ourselves and the way we interactContinue reading “On the Parent, Adult, & Child Within: The Voices that Guide Us”

Embracing the Elephant in the Room [ My Heart for Psychotherapy ]

You simply cannot ignore an elephant in a room, especially not in a small room. Well, you can for a time. Maybe you take special precautions to sit in the corner of the room, furthest from its large flopping ears and gray trunk. Perhaps you cover your ears when it lets out a shrill trumpetContinue reading “Embracing the Elephant in the Room [ My Heart for Psychotherapy ]”