The Lifeworks Group, Inc.

“How to have that difficult conversation you’ve been avoiding with your family, coworkers, parents, partner or children.” Presented by: Dwight Bain, LMHC, NCC, CLC Objectives: Identify the most common family secrets and dysfunction to confront. Gain a strategic approach to confront secrets or addictions with confidence. Role Play a family confrontation without a conflict to achieve therapeutic goals. Discover when to challenge, when to confront, and when to refer for inpatient care. Identify the key elements necessary to re-write a family story. Date:   Friday, March 20, 2015   Time:   9am – 12pm Registration and breakfast begin at 8am   Location:   6601 Central Florida Parkway, Orlando FL 32821 Central Florida Behavioral Hospital tours will be available after presentation.     Email Rich Rodriguez by 3/16/15 to register.   Rich.Rodriguez@uhsinc.com Class size is limited. ...

How would you rate communication with your spouse? Are you a 10: interaction is perfect and both of you feel understood? Are you a 1: there is no exchange? Or are you a 5: there is some discussion but a lot of confusion? Where ever your score (unless you are a perfect 10), your communication can be improved. The quickest way to move up the scale is to stop some bad communication habits. Lying – Even small lies have consequences and a pattern of lying breeds mistrust. Not listening – Thinking about what you are going to say instead of what is being said. Interrupting – Causes frustration and demonstrates a lack of respect. Getting distracted – Other things/people are more important than your spouse. Failing to prioritize – Produces a “Chicken Little” situation – “The sky is falling.” Taking things personally – Not all comments (direct or indirect) are about you. Assuming – This makes an “ass out of you and me”. Name...

Flash back: You just got home from a date that you know went exceptionally well. There was a chemistry, the other person had just the right amount of everything you’re looking for. In the two days following you wait by the phone. After two days, if you haven’t heard from them, you start going through the notions of hurt, rejection, and confusion. Fast forward to the present: The time limit on the “call back” has drastically changed. With the evolution of technology, the “call back” has now turned into a “text back” and normally it’s within an hour of the person leaving. Something simple like “I had a great time tonight.” The conversation goes on for a little bit and you think you really have a connection with this person. Then the day comes, whether it be before or after your second date, that they disappear. Your life turns into a front-row magic show where you’re left wondering what happened. The psychological torture of the hurt, rejection, and confusion becomes more intense due to...

Anyone who is a parent knows it is the hardest job out there.   Being in charge of another human is the most terrifying yet rewarding experience. From the time they are babies, parents are the sole provider for this tiny life that they have created.   Being able to care for and instruct one’s children is a blessing, yet in the same respect can be a trial.   Parents are the ones they look to for guidance, the ones in control and who have things under control.   Parents control what they eat, wear and do from an early age.   That is until they start realizing that they have the ability to say yes or no and start challenging their parents’ instructions and decision-making.   The average child’s frontal lobe does not develop until they are 25 years old, so it makes perfect sense that parents would want to remain in control of the decision-making process. Ultimately they are trying to prevent their kids from making mistakes that may alter their lives in a h...

Become a Certified Trained Crisis Responder!   School Shooting, Co-Worker Suicide, Bombing, Terrorist Attack, Hurricane, Tornado, Fire, Flood, Multiple Car or Bus Fatality or Airline Disaster - when you hear about a major crisis do you know what to do to help someone?   If a community shooting or disaster happened at your workplace, school, church or neighborhood would you know what to do?   Would you know what to say?   Would you know how to protect that person you cared about from developing PTSD?   Would you know what do to protect yourself or those you care about from secondary trauma?   This 2 day crisis certification course was designed by experts after the terrorist attacks of 9/11 by the United States National Guard and the International Critical Incident Stress Foundation as a rapid psychological response to community trauma. Continuing Education Credit is offered from the University of Maryland - Baltimore Campus and ...

By: Cara Griffin-Locker What is Love? Is it an action? A thought? Or maybe just a feeling? According to the Bible, “ Love is patient, kind, does not envy, does not boast and is not proud.   Love does not dishonor others nor is not self-seeking. Love is not easily angered or keeps no record of wrongs.   Love does not delight in evil but rejoices in truth.   It always protects, trusts, hopes, and perseveres.” (1 Cor. 13:4-7) This is something to think about as we approach the famous Hallmark Holiday.   For most of us, Valentine’s Day is a big day that includes the red carpet treatment. From flowers to cards, chocolates and dinner it is the one day to go above and beyond to show the one you love that you truly care, right? Wrong. Many of us have the wrong impression of love.   Certainly it is nice to be showered with things on Valentine’s Day but what about the other 364 days? What about showing love without using material items? Now if you are a pessimist y...

By: Christine Hammond Has sex become something you just do rather than enjoy? Do you feel pressured into having sex? Is it possible to be sexually abused in a marital relationship? Sexual abuse can happen to both men and women in and out of a marital relationship. In a relationship with a narcissist, however, that abuse becomes magnified. For the narcissist, sexual abuse is used to control your behavior, elevate their feelings of superiority, reenact their fantasies (not yours), and paralyze you. Not all narcissists use sexual abuse as a means of domination. But if you are in a relationship with one, knowing even the subtle forms of sexual abuse can be freeing. 1.        The Early Stage. A narcissist begins the abuse by grooming you. They do a mildly abusive act to see if you acquiesce. For instance, they might fondle you in front of your mother or demand sexting while you are at work. These unwanted or embarrassing sexual acts are designed t...