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By: Dwight Bain, LMHC, NCC How 6 tiny accomplishments unlock psychological energy to get life going again   “Trapped in prison,” is how one person described COVID lock down for a month, and they were correct. If you mentally believe you are in jail during the shelter in place process of flattening the coronavirus curve your brain will respond in kind. If you feel trapped by the recommendations of the CDC to stay home, expect to feel isolation, anger, anxiety, panic, desperation, lethargy, apathy, or a total loss of motivation. Do you know what happens when you do the opposite?   When you look at shelter in place as a chance to ‘strengthen in place?’ The lessons may surprise you and the application may change you and your family for good after the lock down is lifted because there is a powerful shift that happens when you change your perspective.   Consider Nelson Mandela, who was the leader of ending apartheid in South African. He was locked u...

By Dwight Bain, LMHC Right now you know someone, probably a woman working two jobs , (not counting parenting children and running a household) , who is trying to make their marriage work and they are in it alone.   It may be a co-worker, a sister, a neighbor or friend at church, but you know this person, and since it’s most likely a woman let’s consider it from her point of view because she is in a tough place. So while you may see her smiling on the outside talking about her love for her man, here's what may be going on inside that house when you aren’t there to see it. She's hurting more now than she ever has before. Why? Because Marriage was never meant to be done alone. So why do these women keep working without help to make their marriage work? A couple of reasons. Obviously they really love the guy on the couch who just can't or won't keep a job or step up to lead his family. This causes another major problem, because she doesn’t want ...