Hello and welcome to "Your Weekly Session". This blook is based on a blog I started over a year ago as a practicing psychotherapist and radio show co-host in the metro Detroit area. Our show, "Sunday Sessions", had been airing every Sunday for approximately 2-1/2 years on WJR Newstalk Radio 760AM. My co-host and good friend Dr. Gail Majcher and I were having a fantastic time edu-taining our listeners on all sorts of topics. We talked about everything from personality profiles to personality disorders...from abusive relationships to healthy lifestyles. It was a great gig. Unbeknownt to us, the gig couldn't and didn't last as long as we would have liked. By year end 2010, it was over. I am grateful to say that even now, nearly one year later, we still get calls and emails from former listeners who we sincerely appreciate. I figure that when the messages being put out there are designed to encourage, support, and inspire others to do what they need to do in order to "get" and "be" better...and they receive it....it's all good.
This blook is my attempt at keeping the messages going in a way that will help you, as the reader, address your (insert your specific personal problem, anxiety, mood, and/or personality disorder, addiction, codependent lifestyle, abusive/estranged/difficult relationship, et al) once and for all in a way that will facilitate authentic positive change, healing, and growth. In YOU that is. For you see, you can't "change" anybody else BUT you in the final analysis. Didn't you already know this? I hope so.
I stated in my very first post that "Earth is the psychiatric unit of the universe." If you don't believe this, I am going to encourage you right here and now to start questioning your own thinking. When you can think about your own thinking and realize how you are not the Grand Master (Flash or otherwise) on this planet we share...then you MAY be capable of improving the quality of your life and relationships over the long term. As my favorite bumper sticker so simply states, "God exists, but you're not Him!" Unfortunately, way WAY too many of us lack this "humility chip" which places us on equal footing with our fellow human beings and, as a result, causes us and others all sorts of drama, trauma, and crazy as time goes by.
Making positive changes, healing from past hurts, and growing in a brand new way as a person IS possible for anyone. Yet if you can't see past your own nose of reality (I think it, therefore it IS it!) and subsequently believe everyone else has to "change" first in order for you to be o.k.---well, what can I say. Don't buy this blook or even glance through it. You're better off with a drink, or a smoke, or whatever else it is you "do" to avoid facing reality.
So think about that...and for the rest of you, please enjoy reading this---your weekly session...
Mary DiPaolo, M.A., LLP
Northville, Michigan
Winter 2011
