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&FRONT Mental Wellness 

Empathy 101 for A-Holes: A Love Story

August 1, 2021September 9, 2021 Jan Anderson, PSYD, LPCC 100% empathy, a-hole, a-holeness, bad can, brief moment, brief moment of connection, brief moment of utter exasperation, checklist, checklist approach appeal, client, client 's wife, cognitive empathy, counsel session, difficult relative, emotional empathy, empathic concern, empathy, empathy 101, empathy microchip, fix-it mode, genuine way, good care of the kid, good news, gridlock, Harvard business review series, inner a-hole, inner Empath, inner empathic side, let, let 's practice, let 's raise, let 's start, lucky break, moment, narcissist, natural curiosity, occasion of empathic response, operation empathy, partner 's nervous system calm, person 's perspective, personality transplant, raise heart rate, sign of emotion, strong rational mind, system calm, total narcissist, type of empathy, utter exasperation, wife 's bad mood, wife 's emotion, wife 's posture, wrong raise heart rate

“The reason I’m here is my wife is unhappy with me. I’m worried about her because I think she’s really

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Mental Wellness 

How to Get to a Breakthrough without Having a Breakdown

June 1, 2021September 9, 2021 Jan Anderson, PSYD, LPCC afloat hold pattern, authentic human connection, autopilot mode, bad boyfriend, boyfriend, brain, brain 's need, breakdown, brief description of rain, client, comfort balm, comfort of the familiar fake, compassion, conflict aspect, conflict aspect of complex situation, counsel session, critic attack, crowd of stranger, curiosity, disorient sense, disorient sense of discomfort, emotional risk-taking, familiar fake, field of awareness, friendly curiosity, good type of guy, human programme, inner adrenaline junkie, inner critic attack, less-functional, less-functional behavior pattern, narcissistic boyfriend, neuroscientist, present moment, present-moment reward, present-moment reward of therapy, rain, reward, reward option, sensation, session, survival-inspired, therapist, therapy, too-bad-to-keep-it, too-good-to-rock-the-boat, unsettle experience, wave of sensation, window of tolerance, wonder change, young adult life

“Why do you keep going back if it’s making you feel worse?” my boyfriend asked. We were talking about one

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Complementary Care 

Frontier Nursing University Increases Diversity and Enrollment

June 1, 2021September 9, 2021 Gil Dunn Black community, brief in-person, client, clinical bound, clinical session, clinical workshop, CNM, diversity, DNSc, doctoral nurse student, E., expansion of student, FACNM, FNU, FNU graduate, FNU president, FNU student, frontier, frontier nurse university, frontier nurse university increase diversity, healthcare, hollow of eastern Kentucky, image001 photo, KY graduate nurse, maternal mortality, midwife, midwifery, midwifery university, mortality, new FNU graduate, nurse, nurse midwife, nurse midwifery, nurse practitioner, nurse practitioner specialty, nurse-midwifery student, Nurse-Midwives, practitioner, psychiatric-mental, psychiatric-mental health nurse practitioner master, relationship-based, relationship-based practitioner, Susan E. stone, Tatyana Jackruddock, woman 's healthcare, workforce

VERSAILLES Meeting your clients and patients where they are has never been more applicable than at Frontier Nursing University (FNU),

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Mental Wellness 

How to Ask for Help If You’re a Perfectionist

February 1, 2021April 14, 2021 Jan Anderson, PSYD, LPCC ability of therapy, actionable change, airline captain, B., big predictor, book coach, book therapist, book-writing, book-writing phobia, bout of profound confusion, Brett Steenbarger, brief psychotherapy, client, client-counselor, client-counselor relationship, confrontational, counsel, divorce, Dr. John Gottman, end of discussion, entrepreneurial mode, environment of hope, ever-expanding morass, exhilarate high, exhilarate high of productivity, expert Dr. John Gottman, exploration of new pattern, face-saving way, favorite face-saving way, focused change effort, good therapist, hand-on-the-doorknob, hand-on-the-doorknob comment, increased empathy, increased expertise, intensive one-on-one therapy, new pattern, old pattern of thought, one-and-done marriage therapy session, one-on-one therapy, ongoing reinforcement, perfectionist, perfectionist tendency, perfectionistic professional, period of absolute clarity, personal counsel experience, personal turn point, plenty personal, powerful emotional experience, pre-marital, pre-marital counsel, professional development, profound confusion, rehearsal of the new pattern, relationship go, science of brief psychotherapy, starter marriage, strength of the client-counselor relationship, stuckness, therapeutic alliance, therapist, therapist 's help, therapy, tortured-reasoning, tricky part, troublesome period, true perfectionist, unhappy couple, use of a supportive relationship, well-meaning adage

I’m writing a book. There, I’ve said it. So almost five years into the process, I guess it’s actually going

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Mental Wellness 

Tired of Being Triggered? How to Keep from Losing It with People You Love.

December 1, 2020February 17, 2021 Jan Anderson, PSYD, LPCC acceptance, alien value system, app, awareness, big chunk of time, client, co-worker, conflict avoidant, conversational ambush, current mental programme, Dr. Brewer, Dr. Brewer 's app, Dr. Brewer 's research, Dr. Judson Brewer, Dr. Judson Brewer 's family, Dr. Judson Brewer 's family of app, embodied awareness, emotion, emotion manifest, emotional family member, favorite tool, feel subversive, groundbreaking research, handy way, Kristin Neff, Kristin Neff 's impressive body, Kristin Neff 's impressive body of research, MD-UPDATE, new self-esteem, popular memes, powerful practice, rationality, relationship tension, self-compassion, self-esteem, self-judgment, simple premise, standard mindfulness phrase, stun lack, stun lack of awareness, therapist, therapy part, type of focus, up-close-and-personal, up-close-and-personal version, UT-Austin, UT-Austin professor, yoda-type, yoda-type character

Is there anyone who hasn’t been triggered by someone about something this year? Is there anyone who hasn’t felt a

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Mental Wellness 

Suicidal Thoughts? They’re Not a Good Predictor of Suicide

August 1, 2020October 19, 2020 Jan Anderson, PSYD, LPCC area of the brain, big risk factor, brain, client, client 's shoe, client stop, client stop think suicidal thought, clinician, constricted think, counselor-client, counselor-client relationship, counterintuitive part, crisis counselor, crucial connection, drown person, good clinical train, good predictor of a suicide attempt, good predictor of suicide, helpful person, hotline, inner critic, internal negotiation, judgment, Kentucky right, life jacket, live buffer, local crisis counselor, local suicide hotline, major national public health issue, Marsha Linehan, mental constriction, Muzak queue, near-critical, near-critical car accident, normal human suffer, option, person contemplate suicide, powerful protective factor, problem-solving impairment, psychologist call, psychology nerd, rational thought, resourceful lady, safety plan, severe mental strain, Sidra stone, standard record, start function, suicide, suicide assessment, suicide attempt, suicide hotline, surreal minute, surreal minute of easy listen music, texted help

Thinking about suicide is not a very good predictor of a suicide attempt. Thinking about suicide isn’t even one of

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Finance 

Life’s Black Swans

September 1, 2019October 28, 2019 Scott Neal 30 year old, 32-year-old client, age-in-place, attorney, best-laid, Black swan event, chair lift, chaos, client, co-appointees, coordinator of healthcare, decisional capacity, family communication plan, family member express compete view, financial plan, financial plan standard, financial planner experience, first-floor, first-floor master suite, first-time homebuyer, health care surrogate, healthcare, healthcare power, healthful lifestyle, incapacity, incapacity hit, let 's deal, life 's black swan, life 's predictable predicament, low probability of occurrence, middle of family member express compete view, mind of a first-time homebuyer, model uncertainty, ounce of prevention, plan conversation, planner experience, pound of cure, predicament, price of a chair lift, real cause of volatility, remote risk, round-the-clock caregiver, Scott Neal, single mother of a toddler, stagger consequence, step present, swan, true value of an investment, truth of the adage, valid healthcare power, valid healthcare power of attorney, vibrant 30-something

Who, better than you, knows the truth of the adage “an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure?”

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Finance 

Time for a Financial Physical?

January 1, 2019March 21, 2019 Scott Neal assumption, client, client goal, constant inflation-adjusted standard, creation of dynamic financial plan, current financial net worth, current financial profile, current net worth, current reality lead, date of the plan, dollar, dynamic financial plan, economic environment, financial checkup, financial physical, financial plan, financial profile, financial well-being, goal change, I, inflation, inflation-adjusted, inflation-adjusted standard, investment return, joyful time, key element, key element of a comprehensive plan, let 's face, let 's review, long range goal, long-term goal change, net worth, plan horizon, planner, present review, projection of net worth, reality lead, Scott Neal, update, worth

One of the most frequent questions asked by our readers is: “How often should a financial plan be updated?” While

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Mental Wellness 

Relationship Repair

May 1, 2018July 2, 2018 Jan Anderson, PsyD, LPPC big bummer, bummer, busy physician, cardinal rule of marital therapy, classic marital impasse, client, counsel, couple talk, evidence-based, evidence-based practice, fast-forward heartbreak, good chance, good chance of help, imposed intimacy, instinct more, John Gottman, John Gottman call, lightbulb moment, likelihood of divorce, marital therapy, marriage researcher, name of the family dog, partner, party participate, pretty good listener, relationship repair, relationship therapy, repair, seek relationship, straight talk, therapy, unique interpersonal dynamics, wife seek emotional connection, withdrawn husband

“You can’t fast-forward heartbreak and you can’t rewind love — and that’s just one big bummer.”(Chelsea Handler, comedian) It’s true

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Mental Wellness 

The Easiest Way to Make a Tough Decision

January 1, 2018March 23, 2018 Jan Anderson, PsyD, LPPC autopilot, balance, change business, classic struggle, client, client 's basic personality, complex consideration, dilemma, discrete solution, divided self, Dr. Harris, Dr. Russ Harris, external stuff, fully-conscious, fully-conscious awareness, happen outside, identity, non-dominant, non-dominant side, old habitual pattern, primary identity, strongly-developed, tough decision, trusty primary identity, valid insight, valuable strength, white- knuckle grip, wrong decision

LOUISVILLE You might say I’m in the “change business.” Most people seek me out because they want to change something

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