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Triangular Theory of Love highlights intimacy, passion, and commitment and how these three components combine and interact to form relationships, how the intensity of each element can adapt relational dynamics and presentations, and discusses how addressing each category can change the nature of your relationships.
In this week’s blog post we address the process of coming out and the fear that often accompanies it. Savanna Brewton, GRCC’s social media marketing strategist, reveals her coming out story and provides insight into what you may want to know before coming out as well as how to find resources to support that journey.
Cyberbullying is an epidemic plaguing cyberspace and has a lasting impact on young users. This article addresses what cyberbullying looks like, how to address it, and how GRCC can help.
Cliff Jackson delves into the lessons he has learned as a male therapist practicing at Getting Real Counseling Center.
Seeing a male therapist offers many benefits to women seeking mental health services, this blog post explores those benefits and addresses the concerns many have of male counselors.
“Loneliness is the state of distress or discomfort that results when one perceives a gap between one’s desires for social connection and actual experiences of it”. If you find yourself experiencing loneliness, you aren’t the only one. Studies suggest that loneliness is increasingly present in younger generations, and many of us are experiencing the painful effects of prolonged isolation. This article tackles loneliness, its causes, symptoms, and ways to overcome it.
This article enlightens readers on the “Minnesota Starvation Experiment”, a study that has frequently been cited in psychological and nutritional realms to point to the harmful effects of dieting and “semi-starvation”. Participants were conscientious objectors of the war who were “willing to subject themselves to a year-long invasion of privacy, nutritional deprivation, and physical and mental hardship”. The researchers created this study to look at the impact of famine on survivors of the second world war but also learned a lot about how diets impact people psychologically, mentally, emotionally, and relationally. Diets are dangerous, destructive, and not effective. If you need help getting off the diet merry-go-round and finding a way to make peace with your body and food, contact us today.
Burnout is a state of emotional, physical, and mental exhaustion caused by excessive and prolonged stress. While the most common burnout contributor is the workplace, leaving you feeling overworked and undervalued, other aspects of daily life could be leading to burnout as well. This article will address what burnout is, its causes and symptoms, and steps to overcome it. Are you experiencing burnout, reach out to us at 706-389-8161 for help.
Pure by Linda Kay Klein addresses purity culture and the emphasis of sexual purity placed upon women in the 1990’s, this book review by LAPC, Cliff Jackson, is intended to provide a brief description that focuses on the impact of purity culture on an individual’s identity. Pure’s material is not only crushing, depressing, infuriating, and alarming, but also filled to the brim with life-giving validation, empowerment, hope, and empathy.
Food isn’t your enemy… and you are not broken. Food is how your culture was passed down from generation to generation, how someone shows they care about you, and how you are taken care of if you are sick or grieving. Dealing with food is really complicated, intense, and emotional.
