Author: Harvey Hyman

Frequent parental validation of one’s value and lovability as a person is essential to secure attachment and the feeling of safety. Frequent parental validation of one’s positive qualities (like kindness, generosity, concern for others, curiosity, and creativity) is equally essential. It is required for the development of ego strength, self-confidence, and optimism. Parental validation is… Continue reading HOW TO REDUCE YOUR NEED FOR EXTERNAL VALIDATION

A substantial number of my clients find partners who take command and use their power in the relationship to make my clients feel small by ordering them around, criticizing them, belittling them, and acting as mind readers by saying things like “you needn’t speak because I know exactly what you’re going to say.” Living with… Continue reading FINDING Y OUR AUTHENTIC VOICE IN A RELATIONSHIP

By Harvey Hyman, LPCC 10/7/22 For questions reach Harvey at authenticlifetherapies@gmail.com According to data published in 2010 by the federal agency that provides the best available evidence on the benefits and harms of drugs, at least 40% and as many as 60% of patients with depression do not improve by taking antidepressant drugs (1)(2). In… Continue reading Reducing and Preventing Depressive Symptoms with Food

A substantial number of people with chronic anxiety or depression also have chronic stomach pain that lowers their quality of life irrespective of whether they have objective findings of gastrointestinal obstruction or disease. Nutritional psychiatrists like Uma Naidoo, M.D., (the author of This is Your Brain on Food) say that in many cases the linkage… Continue reading CHRONIC STOMACH PAIN AND MOOD DISORDERS: CAUSES AND TREATMENT

Depression is a state in which a person is flattened mentally, emotionally, and physically. A depressed person feels de-energized, weak, incapable, tired, pessimistic, even hopeless. A depressed person can’t concentrate and has trouble with basic bodily functions like appetite, eating, sleeping, showering, and dressing. The depressed person is indifferent to work and social obligations. The… Continue reading AWE AS MEDICINE FOR DEPRESSION