November/December 2013
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Our Habits, Ourselves
Can the Circle Be Broken?
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Editor's Note
Romantically infatuated with the idea of psychological revelation—aka the therapeutic “breakthrough”—therapists too often ignore the fact that a life’s worth of habitual behavior often trumps, for good or ill, all the insights and emotional fireworks that we like to see as the key to therapeutic “progress.”
Blue-Collar Therapy
The Nitty-Gritty of Lasting Change
Changes in the habitual attitudes and behaviors that shape our lives rarely happen as the result of psychological epiphanies or emotional catharsis. Most therapeutic progress comes from the painstaking process of continual practice that reinforces some behaviors while actively discouraging others. Read More
Creatures of Habit
Do We Really Choose How We Live Our Lives?
Something New, Here & Now
Breaking Free of the Habitual
The 14 Habits of Highly Miserable People
How to Succeed at Self-Sabotage
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Shaking & Dancing in Dharamsala
A Group of Tibetan Refugees Find their Inner Guides