Posts Tagged ‘Traci Ruble’
Humanity Needs Empathy Now More Than Ever
What would the world look like without empathy? In a recent LA Times piece, Yale psychologist Paul Bloom opined that empathy is an overrated emotion, one that leads us into all manner of irrational choices and that ultimately leads to burnout. The capacity to put ourselves in each other’s shoes, he argues, is nothing more…
Strength and Vulnerability: Psychotherapy for First Time Users
Traci Ruble gives a great talk about the hidden strengths inside vulnerability. “Being vulnerable is not the same as being weak. Misconceptions about vulnerability can make people who have never been to psychotherapy feel nervous about trying to get help. This talk is about what it is like to start therapy and what actually happens in…
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…
Psychotherapy as American Cheese Maker
by Traci Ruble, MFTwww.traciruble.com Have you had a chance to see Cindy Sherman’s photography exhibit yet at the San Francisco Moma? Her work challenges what identity we are manufacturing or not. And for me, it begs the question, how does Psychotherapy get used to “cement” the identity by embarking on a “self improvement” project towards…
When Feelings Take Us Over
First off, I think Tom wrote about such an important topic in his last article on introversion. Check it out if you haven’t yet. Our culture seems to split off good and bad and right now extroversion is celebrated and we fail to deeply value the power of introversion. There is power in introversion…who knew!…
Emotional Weight Lifting
Ah those darn feelings. They are so pesky aren’t they? If we didn’t have them, would we ever need a profession called psychotherapy? I am geeking out on neuroscience and evolutionary biology as it relates to emotions the last few weeks. Some would argue, “Can’t we get by without negative emotions?” But emotions that some…