self and other

The 10 Most Useful Facts about Emotions: #2

Today’s post is from a series I call “The 10 Most Useful Facts about Emotions”. I posted an earlier version of this series when I launched DrTimCavell.com (September, 2014). I thought it wise to revisit these facts. I wrote this for a forthcoming book about the emotional hazards of parenting, but these 10 facts can [...]

Tim2024-01-11T02:27:33-06:00March 13th, 2015|Categories: Parent, Self & Other|Tags: Parenting, Parents, self and other|

Heading into a Bumpy Valentine’s Day? Consider the Paradoxes of Love

Most have heard Steve Miller’s song The Joker and his famous line “‘cause I speak of the pompatus of love” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmVusVh4TRQ). I can’t speak to that but I can tell you about the paradoxes of love. I do a fair amount of couples’ therapy and one of the challenges in doing that work is that [...]