Therapy Under Five: What Feels Good to My Soul?
So many of us are especially suffering and struggling right now whether it's about our shock and horror at the treatment of immigrant...
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Lisa Blair, M.A.
- Jun 15, 2018
- 1 min
Therapy Under Five: On Suicide
The recent deaths of two prominent figures in the public eye—Kate Spade and Anthony Bourdain—have brought the issue of suicide, once...
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Lisa Blair, M.A.
- Jun 8, 2018
- 1 min
Therapy Under Five: Empowerment
Many of us, especially us women-identified folk, knowingly struggle with feeling disempowered in our lives, but we may not have the first...
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Lisa Blair, M.A.
- Apr 8, 2018
- 6 min
How to Cope as a Highly Sensitive Person
So, what is a highly sensitive person, anyway? You may have heard the term but not really understood much or anything about what it is....
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Lisa Blair, M.A.
- Feb 10, 2018
- 1 min
Therapy Under Five: The Double Critic
Here's my fourth video in a new series I'm calling "Therapy Under Five." It's done Q&A style—in each video I read a question I've...
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Lisa Blair, M.A.
- Feb 1, 2018
- 1 min
Therapy Under Five: Getting Hurt / Who's Responsible?
Here's my third video in a new series I'm calling "Therapy Under Five." It's done Q&A style—in each video I read a question I've received...
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Lisa Blair, M.A.
- Dec 16, 2017
- 1 min
Therapy Under Five: Addictions
Here's my second video in a new series I'm calling "Therapy Under Five." It's done Q&A style—in each video I read a question I've...
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Lisa Blair, M.A.
- Nov 18, 2017
- 2 min
Therapy Under Five: Sharing Feelings & Feeling Misunderstood
Here's my first video in a new video series I'm calling "Therapy Under Five." In each video I'll be reading a question that I've received...
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Lisa Blair, M.A. and David Bedrick, J.D.
- Oct 26, 2017
- 8 min
Embracing Diversity in Relationships: You, Me, and All That Stuff We're So Scared Of
How do we shift from a phase of unity and harmony in our relationships to embracing diversity? How do we be our true selves with another per
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Lisa Blair, M.A.
- Sep 24, 2017
- 8 min
Erasing Race: The Dangers of Individualism, White Privilege, and Spiritual Bypassing
One of the many privileges of being a white person in America is that we don’t have to think about the color of our skin. When we go about o
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Lisa Blair, M.A.
- Sep 1, 2017
- 2 min
Songs of Empowerment
In my therapy practice, one of the things I always keep my eyes and ears open for is empowerment and where my clients are in that ongoing...
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Lisa Blair, M.A. and David Bedrick, J.D.
- Aug 29, 2017
- 7 min
When Relationships Fall Apart: Conscious and Unconscious Agreements in Relationship
Every relationship has two handshakes: one above the table and one below. The first handshake is a conscious agreement between the two...
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Lisa Blair, M.A.
- Jul 5, 2017
- 6 min
How to Cope with Grief & Loss
In my previous posts on grief, titled “The Diversity of Grief,” I discuss the diversity of feeling experiences people go through when in...
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Lisa Blair, M.A.
- Jul 1, 2017
- 3 min
Book Review: "Dear White America: Letter to a New Minority" by Tim Wise
To my white American friends who are moved by racial justice: If you haven’t already, let me suggest starting a “must read” list of books...
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Lisa Blair, M.A.
- Jun 8, 2017
- 5 min
Getting to Know Our Inner Diversity, Part 2
In Part 1, we learned what it means to have inner diversity, to have various internal figures or parts. I talked about the value of...
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Lisa Blair, M.A.
- Jun 1, 2017
- 5 min
Getting to Know Our Inner Diversity, Part 1
In this age where there is such an emphasis on oneness, it’s important, perhaps ironically, that we become aware of the various parts of...
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Lisa Blair, M.A.
- Mar 27, 2017
- 10 min
"A Day Without a Woman": A Look at Intersectionality
I’m writing this on March 8, 2017, International Women’s Day and the day of the national protest called “A Day Without a Woman.” Today,...
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Lisa Blair, M.A.
- Jan 12, 2017
- 7 min
The Signs of Deep Grief
Grief comes in many forms and in many sizes throughout our lives: when a family member (be they human or animal), friend, or community...
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Lisa Blair
- Dec 2, 2016
- 7 min
In the Flow: Fame, Zeitgeist, and the Creative Spirit
It has been said that becoming famous is the quickest way to kill your creative spirit. Based on my own personal experience as an artist...
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Lisa Blair
- Oct 20, 2016
- 5 min
The Diversity of Grief
Experiences and expressions of grief and loss can be quite diverse and vary significantly from one individual to another. For example,...
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