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After Breaking up, Can We Still be Friends?

By Dr. Paul Schmidt  on November 23, 2015
   After Breaking up, Can We Still be Friends? [This was my first newspaper column, done in the 1970's. I still believe it, and our society still doesn't.]              Reader: My lover and I are breaking up a 16-month-long relationship. I want to hang onto this as a friendship, but he says it can’t be […]
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Second-hand Stress

By Dr. Paul Schmidt  on November 10, 2015
Coping with Second-hand Stress Here is some assertiveness training for dealing with emotional bullies or master manipulators. The key is to see the invisible force they hit you with--stress. When somebody “stresses” you, according to the dictionary, they are subjecting you to pressure or strain. The verb “subject” literally means to throw somebody under something, […]
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I'm Thankful I'm an Addict

By Dr. Paul Schmidt  on October 20, 2015
I’m Thankful that I’m an Addict Last week on Thanksgiving Day driving to visit relatives, it took my wife and me an hour and a half to finish thanking God for all the blessings in our life. One of the biggest gratitudes for me was that that day was my 30th “birthday” of my new […]
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Celebrating Introversion

By Dr. Paul Schmidt  on October 13, 2015
  A CHALLENGE FOR INTROVERTS TO CELEBRATE WHO THEY ARE In 2014 a powerful and introverted New York lawyer Susan Cain wrote an influential and popular book, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World that can’t Stop Talking. She documents conclusively that in the last ninety years America has been developing a clear bias […]
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Three Doors to Live Behind

By Dr. Paul Schmidt  on October 8, 2015
Game Players, Team Players, and Game Changers As a psychologist, I’m not much on typologies. They assume all people fit nicely into one of several personality types, and I keep seeing bell curves from the research. Nevertheless, I am going to give you here three approaches to life that I see, three mindsets if you […]
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Seven Lessons about Relationships from Mother Nature

By Dr. Paul Schmidt  on August 24, 2015
Seven Lessons about Relationships from Mother Nature             We are fortunate to live in an agrarian community, particularly in Kentucky where the crops and foliage all around us go through four such gloriously distinct seasons. Some of the things we see in the natural world around us teach us a lot about living things that […]
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Are You Growing in Balance?

By Dr. Paul Schmidt  on August 24, 2015
Are you Growing in Balance? By Dr. Paul Schmidt   Just as inability for sick Americans to find safe and affordable health care has created a crisis in our society, ignorance among single adults about how to find safe and affordable relationships has created a crisis for them.   They are suffering through relationships that make […]
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Online Addictions and Electronic Attachments in Children

By Dr. Paul Schmidt  on March 11, 2015
Online Addictions in Young People: How it Starts, and How it Stops   I recently attended a training conference in Arizona which dealt in large measure with online addictions. Anyone who cares enough to learn what causes and cures them needs to know that they typically begin in childhood. I am writing three columns to […]
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How I Work

By Dr. Paul Schmidt  on July 24, 2014
HOW I WORK Unlike most counselors, I will give you lots of feedback during the first session.  My goal is always to outgrow my job, and I want you to have a taste of what my feedback, guidance and encouragement feels like before you decide whether to come back.  I often give my feedback on […]
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