by Helen Papadopoulos | Sep 3, 2022 | Healing Sexual Abuse, Real Philosophy, Self Help Skills
Guilt: the fact of having committed some type of wrongdoing. Guilt is usually not enough to make people change. This change would require them to not only rectify their transgression(s), but to never do it again. I am well aware of how this works with sexual and...
by Helen Papadopoulos | Jan 28, 2022 | Real Philosophy, Self Help Skills
Misplaced: To set on a wrong object or eventuality: his trust had been misplaced; synonyms: lose, mislay. Guilt: Feelings of deserving blame especially for imagined offenses or from a sense of inadequacy: SELF-REPROACH; synonyms: contrition, penitence, regret,...
by Helen Papadopoulos | Mar 1, 2021 | Real Philosophy, Self Help Skills
Below is a modified excerpt taken from one of my self-help books – DIY Therapy Chart: An Emotional Healing Guide – that some people have found very useful over the years. I hope it helps you, too. “You, generally speaking, go about life trying to get...
by Helen Papadopoulos | Jun 10, 2014 | Real Philosophy, Self Help Skills
In most cases, the reasons you grieve some loss are fairly straightforward. If it is a loved one, you may miss the way you loved them and/or the way they loved you. If it is a job that you enjoyed, and were fortunate enough to earn a decent living from, you will miss...
by Helen Papadopoulos | Jun 7, 2011 | Real Philosophy
The title of this blog post is a well known quote by Mark Twain (it was also the title of one of Judge Judy’s books many moons ago). It is a play on part of the word ‘denial’ and the river Nile in Egypt…denial is not some faraway place or thing...