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Posts by Katie Read

Is Your Therapist Too Nice?

“I’ve met the greatest girl,” John said. He was beaming. “She’s really hot. She’s 27, super smart. This weekend I’m chartering a yacht for us! Isn’t that awesome?” I just looked at him. This was his third “greatest girl” in six months. Each was 20-plus years younger than him—and all three were following quickly on…

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Autism, Motherhood and First Rejections

And maybe this is why autism scares people so much: the loneliness of an autistic life points to that thing we are all trying to avoid, escape, deny, shove back down—our own core aloneness. Our fear of feeling lonely, and all the things that lonely means: unacceptable, unlikable, unloved.

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#TBT on Psyched – Sandy Hook: How To Help

When a writer captures heartache so profoundly as Katie did about Sandy Hook, salve is applied to the wound for us all. As I reflect on the news of Charlie Hebdo and the awful school shooting in Pakistan in December I am aware that all of our hearts need salve. It is so easy to harden our hearts and turn sorrow into hatred.

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“What That Man For?”

“If you don’t have the slightest idea what you are for—well, what a great starting point to find some focus, definition or purpose in your life, or to figure out how to spend your time in the most meaningful way?  What do you want your life to be for?” – Katie Read Lately, my 2 ½ year old…

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How to Break Old Habits and Start Doing the Things You Value Most

“So how to deal differently with the unruly passengers on your bus?  You notice them, thank them for their input, and drive the bus towards your values anyway.” Katie Read How to Break Old Habits and Start Doing the Things You Value Most by Katie Read, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist If you’re—well, human—chances are…

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Letting Go and Finding Yourself

Where is the place that your spirit is waiting for you to go? – Katie Read Letting Go and Finding Yourselfby Katie Read, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist Let’s just say it wasn’t the response I expected. I was checking in to the Snowmansion Hostel in Taos, NM.  I was 24. It was my first…

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Can You Eliminate Anxiety?

“The truth is that a normal human brain, working correctly and normally, will far out-produce negative thoughts to positive thoughts on any given day.  Our brains kept us alive by being anxious about saber-toothed tigers around every bend. They also kept us alive by analyzing, calculating, and keeping us in-step with the tribe at all…

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10 Minutes to Heal Your Relationship

“Disconnection, you see, is like the first sign of a cold.  Monday’s sniffle becomes Wednesday’s misery.  Disconnection is like the sniffle: benign enough, no big deal.  Easy to miss or ignore. But just as the sniffle becomes the sore throat, our disconnection eventually leads to increasing irritation with our spouse.” -Katie Read 10 Minutes to…

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Sandy Hook: How To Help

“In all these tragedies, there are far more helpers than there are bad guys.  You are one.  Do what you do to heal your tiny corner of the world.  You are helping.”       -Katie Read, MFT When I turned on the news, a long-nailed claw ripped into my chest, yanked out my heart, and…

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Humility, Acceptance, Monks, and the Dishes

“We can spend many years getting better at the struggle of life, but we find peace much faster through a daily practice of acceptance and humbling our egos.” -Katie Read Humility, Acceptance, Monks, and the Dishes -Katie Read, MFT I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the human ego.  Not ego as in someone who…

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