Posts by Tom Rhodes
What’s in an Anger Outburst?! –Saying the Most True Thing–
Author: Tom Rhodes, MFT Website: www.selfinquirytherapy.com If we all embraced and embodied this, saying the most true thing, to ourselves, to our husbands, wives, friends, family, children, a lot of pain and suffering could be avoided. Or, once induced, it could be repaired. However, there are seemingly plenty of good reasons not to, from a…
Taming the Inner Critic
Author: Tom Rhodes, MFT www.selfinquirytherapy.com Have you noticed that the inner critic, your inner critic, has something to say? In fact, it often has A LOT to say. What is this voice? What does it want and where does it come from?! You may have noticed, it tends to spring up at a moment’s notice…
Meeting Anxiety – A Gentle Reminder from Trees
If it could speak, anxiety’s mission statement would be something like “What’s here is intolerable and unacceptable. Off with it!” Well, I was reminded of another way this morning while standing amidst a miniature forest of trees in Golden Gate Park, sipping my morning coffee. I didn’t think to stop, I just stopped. Or rather…
What Are We Yearning For?
Author: Tom Rhodes, MFT www.selfinquirytherapy.com This seems like a fair, if albeit, under-examined question. Far from under-examined, however, are the myriad attempts at ways to quench this yearning! TV, drugs, eating, being alone, being around people; pretty much anything that we could think up to do or not do, can potentially qualify as a means…
Introversion & Creativity
Just a day after watching a TED talk on the hidden powers of introversion, I found myself in a position for the first time in quite a while where I was called on to be creative in an interrelational context. A large portion of this TED talk was focused specifically on hilighting the differences between…