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2nd Full Disclosure (Step 9 Amends)

By Dr. Paul Schmidt  on March 1, 2018
 2nd Full Disclosure (Step 9 Amends) Christian Sex Addicts and their Spouses:  Giving and Receiving Disclosure in Grace and Truth   Grace and truth are both contagious, and they need each other.  Our communications in marriage should show (and thus inspire) love, respect, and understanding toward BOTH spouse and self:  love your neighbor as yourself.  […]
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Sublimate Your Sex Drive, Don't Suffocate It

By Dr. Paul Schmidt  on March 1, 2018
SUBLIMATION Sublimate your Sex Drive, Don't Suffocate It One of the few times Freud was in agreement with his Victorian culture was when he taught the usefulness of sublimating the sex drive before marriage.  (His biographies all suggest he had to work hard at practicing what he preached on this score.)  The word sublimate comes […]
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Managing Chronic Pain

By Dr. Paul Schmidt  on March 1, 2018
MANAGING CHRONIC PAIN:  STOCKING YOUR TOOL BOX For the first time in my life last winter, I let pain whip me.  I panicked in an ER that wasn’t diagnosing or treating me.  I fought the pain and in my own eyes, made a big baby out of myself.  All that energy I put into pushing […]
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Defiance of Medical Compliance

By Dr. Paul Schmidt  on March 1, 2018
ARE YOU IN DEFIANCE OF MEDICAL COMPLIANCE?   Has your doctor told you that you are making yourself sick, that your pain or disability will continue to get worse until you change your lifestyle?  Perhaps you have had trouble complying with doctor’s orders about alcohol, cigarettes, street drugs, prescription pills, physical therapy, losing weight, getting […]
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Marijuana: Is it Doing me more Harm than Good?

By Dr. Paul Schmidt  on March 1, 2018
Marijuana: Thoughts on its Use, Abuse, and Legalization by Paul Schmidt, Ph.D.   I have never really had a position or opinion on marijuana, and in recent weeks I have grown weary of this ignorance.  To prepare my thoughts on this subject, I have done three things.  First, I have obtained professional training as a […]
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How to Quit Smoking

By Dr. Paul Schmidt  on March 1, 2018
HOW TO QUIT SMOKING  Wise people have had lots of trouble with nicotine.  Mark Twain said, “Giving up smoking is the easiest thing I’ve ever done in my life.  I ought to know.  I’ve done it a hundred times.” Sigmund Freud died of a cancerous jaw caused by smoking cigars.  He was clearly aware of […]
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Should We Be Getting Married? Or Not?

By Dr. Paul Schmidt  on February 8, 2018
Should We Be Getting Married?  Or Not? Good love relationships reach a tipping point:  Is it time to put our wedding plans into gear, and put them into the trash can and break up? Here's a good way to move a good love relationship off a plateau, and decide if it's time to commit or quit.  In […]
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Love's New Rituals

By Dr. Paul Schmidt  on February 26, 2017
  Love's New Rituals Long ago in a faraway place called 20th century America, when lovers would get serious about their relationship, they would usually announce to the world that they were “going steady" (or, "going together"), and then if all went well, that they were engaged to marry, ideally even to "enter holy matrimony" […]
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Four Seasons of a Love Relationship

By Dr. Paul Schmidt  on February 26, 2017
The Four Seasons of Love Before Marriage  Another post here shows how love relationships work a lot like other living things—children, pets and houseplants. Like fruit trees, they grow through the cycle of seasons, and the time before marriage seems to me a cycle of four seasons. A problem in most relationships is that the partners […]
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