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6 Reasons Why We Don’t Implement Changes In Our Lives, and What Can Be Done About It

Dave Lechnyr, LCSW · September 22, 2022

Why is it so difficult to make changes in our lives? We all talk about it, and some of us will start work on it, but in the end we seem to get stuck in remaining the same. This happens even when we know that it would be best to make certain changes in our life. Why is this?

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8 Marriage Intuitive Clues To Catch a Cheating Spouse (and Save Your Marriage)

Dave Lechnyr, LCSW · June 14, 2022

Have you ever had a gut feeling that something in your marriage was amiss, but it would take some time for all to sink in right? Well, intuition has always been our best friend. In these days when the internet is rife with all sorts of dating services and adulterous spouses roam about looking to strike down marriages in order to supplement their home life with another partner, if we have doubts about our partner’s fidelity then we should pay attention, because infidelity can destroy a relationship.

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How Not to be Blocked When Doing an Intervention

Dave Lechnyr, LCSW · April 5, 2022

A.K.A, “Handling Questions Designed to Put You On the Spot and Them Out of the Spot”.

Interventions are extremely uncomfortable to do. Your main job is to try to help them to see that they can no longer continue to live in “the denial of the present reality.” Chances are they will get upset and object – this is designed to put you on the defensive and to take the focus off of themselves. Remember, the person you are confronting has had years of practice in avoiding dealing with their problems. A few ideas might help you in this process.

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Trust Problems in Dysfunctional Families

Dave Lechnyr, LCSW · March 29, 2022

Why do some adults have more struggles in life than others? Many times it relates to how dysfunction “entered” their childhood family. Such problems can arise from abuse, neglect, psychological abuse, immature parents, secrets in the family that impact others or an overwhelming sense of insecurity in the home environment. Understanding a few things might help in clarifying this tricky situation.

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How to Make Things Worse by Using Emotions to Solve our Problems

Dave Lechnyr, LCSW · March 22, 2022

The reason that many people don’t solve problems is that they “personalize” everything that is said to them. They relate what is happening to some fear, some event, past memory, problem, or so forth, from the past that is “evoked” in the present by what another person says. As a result, discussions with people like this are never easy as they are always personalized based on fears and emotions, without any real future focus.

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