Posts by Traci Ruble
Are You Addicted to Thinking?
How much time do we all spend not experiencing our bodies every day caught up in our own addiction to thinking? A lot. Think of what you are aware of in your body while reading this article? at work? While texting? While talking with a friend? While watching TV? We are in an altered state, a trance…
What is Our Part? How We Impact Our Relationships and Communities
http://vimeo.com/37361951 Often we don’t want to know more about that which might make us uncomfortable. Behaviors we find unsightly and make us want to reject people outright are actually cries for help. If we could be willing to metabolize discomfort better we can decide to take more thoughtful and connective action or at least thoughtful…
Marketing Your Therapy Practice: Is There a Formula?
What Brand is Your Therapist? by Lori Gottlieb “Does psychotherapy have a branding problem? How do you brand deep transformation -by no longer doing deep transformative work or by remaining aloof? We have an opportunity here to look inside of ourselves and get clear on what we each individually want, how we want to work, what…
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Disconnected: Political Conversation, Couples Therapy and Community
“If you genuinely care about our larger community we are building here in this country having the capacity to engage in a thoughtful political discussion about what it means to be sharing this land might actually change your life. Think about it – if you can, with an open heart, connect rather than disconnect around…
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Men in Psychotherapy: Left Out of the Conversation?
I am suggesting that valuing a bilingual intimacy and emotional literacy that includes the body and talking, that includes masculinity and femininity and seeks to understand each man and woman who comes to see us in their masculine and feminine gender identification is an important part of doing therapy well and not leaving anyone out of the conversation. -Traci Ruble…
Parenting Is Not the Hardest Job in the World
Parenting or Motherhood, to be exact, is not the hardest job in the world because IT IS NOT A JOB AT ALL. I wonder sometimes if “JOB” helps parents feel valued by the workforce. Or maybe because relating with a child is hard to stomach so by calling it a job we get some reprieve…
Going Home: Adult Children of Divorce Step Out of the Legacy
From the NEW HBO Documentary: Don’t Divorce Me: Kids Rules for Parents About Divorce. Airs Thursday, Sept 20 @ 6:30pm …stepping back into a group dynamic that pulls us into old roles we have long outgrown or long TO outgrow can create a wellspring of emotions especially for those who come from broken homes or…
This blog will be short and sweet, so to speak. Sometimes, lots of words are required to get, or point to, the heart of things in a way that is useful. And sometimes, saying a lot is saying too much. This week, the latter feels true to me, and so I embrace it. Quite simply,…
Launching: Support in Finding Our Professional Voice as Psychotherapists
From the Mars Rover Curiousity Control Room! A team effort! “There seems to be a way in which once licensed [as a psychotherapist] we feel a sense of having to do this work of growing a practice in isolation – not sharing with each other how incredibly vulnerable it is to put our own artistry in…