Differing Realities of Couples
By Kevin Leapley, MA, LPC, CSAT on Tuesday, August 19th, 2014 in Sexual Addiction. No Comments
By Kevin Leapley, MA, LPC, CSAT on Tuesday, August 19th, 2014 in Sexual Addiction. No Comments
Differing Realities For Couples His Reality: “I’m becoming a man of integrity” Her Reality: “I’ve been betrayed”His Reality: “I’ve never loved her more.”Her Reality: “I’ve never felt less loved or less worthy.”His Reality: “I’m beginning to see how much I value our marriage.”Her Reality: “I’ve never realized until now how little the marriage meant to […]
By Kevin Leapley, MA, LPC, CSAT on Saturday, August 9th, 2014 in Marriage Counseling. No Comments
Boundaries for Avoiding Internal Listening & Talking Boundary Violations: Don’t imply by word or deed that another person is worthless. That is called shaming another person. Don’t yell or scream at another person. Don’t ridicule another person. Don’t lie. Don’t break a commitment for any reason. Don’t attempt to control or manipulate another person. Don’t […]
By Kevin Leapley, MA, LPC, CSAT on Saturday, June 28th, 2014 in Depression. No Comments
Dealing with Depression “Some of the most comforting words in the universe are “me too.” That moment when you find out that your struggle is also someone else’s struggle, that you’re not alone, and that others have been down the same road.” -Rob Bell *I heard you were wonderful at finding these Quotes Kevin- So […]
By Kevin Leapley, MA, LPC, CSAT on Sunday, May 11th, 2014 in Marriage Counseling. No Comments
To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to be sure of keeping your heart intact you must give your heart to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully around with hobbies and little luxuries, avoid all entanglements. Lock […]
By Kevin Leapley, MA, LPC, CSAT on Monday, April 7th, 2014 in Sexual Addiction. No Comments
*In Natural Marital Sexual Intercourse: Dopamine: elevated levels of dopamine in the brain produce extremely focused attention, as well as unwavering motivation, energy, and goal-directed behaviors. This chemical causes each spouse to focus intensely on the other at the exclusion of everything else around them. It even helps each to concentrate on the positive qualities […]
By Kevin Leapley, MA, LPC, CSAT on Saturday, March 29th, 2014 in Sexual Addiction. No Comments
Decision-making One of the most important functions of modern groups is decision-making. The fates of our families, our corporations, even our nations, hang on our collective ability to make good decisions. Unfortunately psychologists have found that group counseling can suffer all kinds of biases and glitches that lead to poor choices. Happily, though, experiments have […]
By Kevin Leapley, MA, LPC, CSAT on Saturday, March 22nd, 2014 in Grief Counseling. No Comments
It may be hard for you to feel optimistic right now. If you’ve lost a spouse, child, family member, or friend, you may have found that there are not many people who understand the deep hurt you feel. This group is here to help you understand the complex emotions that can happen after a significant […]
By Kevin Leapley, MA, LPC, CSAT on Saturday, March 1st, 2014 in Sexual Addiction. No Comments
Porn Changes Brain Sex Addiction counselors have known for years that pornography addiction is a real addiction and now a study done by Cambridge University scientists reveal changes in the brain for compulsive porn users which don’t show up in those with no such habit. MRI scans of those that admitted to compulsive use of […]
By Kevin Leapley, MA, LPC, CSAT on Sunday, February 23rd, 2014 in Sexual Addiction. No Comments
PORN FACTS Generates approximately $1 billion annually with growth projections to $5-7 billion over the next 5 years, barring unforeseen change (NRC Report 2002) 74% of adult commercial sites display free teaser porn images on homepage (Child-proofing on the World Wide Web: A survey of adult web servers 2001, (NRC Report 2002) 345% increase in […]