“Dearly beloved we are gathered here today to get through this thing called life”-Prince Let’s Go Crazy Living in the present allows you to focus on the here and now. It creates a space where you can actually experience life. If you worry about the future or dwell on past fears, you cannot live...
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“My name is Bob Livingstone and I have been a psychotherapist in private practice for almost thirty years. This blog post has been written based on real experiences. The individuals depicted are fictional. I am a thirty-seven year old man who is married with two small children, We have one boy age eleven and...
There have been times in my life that I wish that I had a God to turn to; some deity that would show me a sign that not all was lost. I have experienced intense hopelessness, numbness and total disillusion with life. It would have been so soothing to have the ability to turn...
I will be turning sixty-five years old in less than a month and I am not ashamed to say that I am on high freak out mode. I am overwhelmed by the turning of the calendar pages and reaching senior citizen status. I read a recent article about what kind of exercise we are supposed...
“My name is Bob Livingstone and I have been a psychotherapist in private practice for almost thirty years. This blog post has been written based on real experiences. The individuals depicted are fictional.” My name is Gerald and I am forty-seven years old. I have been married for twenty-three years. We have...
We all experience losses in our lives. Our loved ones die, we have break ups with partners and we fall out with friends. If you find yourself intensely pondering any of these events a year or more after they occurred, it may be because you keep hoping for a different outcome from the loss that...
“My name is Bob Livingstone and I have been a psychotherapist in private practice for almost thirty years. This blog post has been written based on real experiences. The individuals depicted are fictional.” My name is Ben and I am fifty years old. I have been married for twenty-six years and have two children;...
My mother died ten years ago of heart failure. The last time I saw her was in a Pennsylvania hospital. The florescent light along with the antiseptic smells was exacerbating my anxiety. I knew my mom was dying as I hugged and kissed her goodbye. I got word about a week later that...
Many memories are flooding my psyche. My father died 49 years ago today of a stroke. He was 56 years old, 8 years less than I am right now. I never really got to know him. How well do you get to know anyone at age 15? His death was the most tragic event of...
“My name is Bob Livingstone and I have been a psychotherapist in private practice for almost thirty years. This blog post has been written based on real experiences. The individuals depicted are fictional.” My name is Roger and I am forty two years old. I work as a general contractor in a small town...