By Jeffrey Noethe, Ph.D., on February 14th, 2018
Mindfulness is about spending more time in the present moment. It is a concept that sounds simple and perhaps not very interesting, but in practice, the present moment turns out to be an elusive thing. It does not include the present day, hour, or minute. It is only right now. It is this moment, this […]
By Jeffrey Noethe, Ph.D., on June 3rd, 2017
Every once in a while, a few of my clients will seem to become synchronized around a single theme or issue. This happened a couple weeks ago, and the theme was obligation. The quick version is this…
“Appreciation and apology, not obligation, are the currency of healthy relationships.”
When people in a relationship become focused on score-keeping […]
By Jeffrey Noethe, Ph.D., on April 16th, 2014
Row, row, row your boat,
Gently down the stream.
Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily,
Life is but a dream.
Having a two-year-old at home, I have been revisiting a vast array of children’s nursery rhymes, song, stories, and fairy tales. Most carry no real weight as vehicles of philosophy, but “Row, Row, […]
By Jeffrey Noethe, Ph.D., on November 9th, 2011
I belong to a book group focused on Buddhism and psychotherapy, and one of our recurring discussions is about whether or not there is a self. Buddhist teachings often focus on the idea that there is no such thing as the self, but clinical work in Psychology tends to deal directly with the self. It […]
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