Individual Counseling Insights From Westlake Village-Based Patricia McTague-Loft Sexual harassment and outright sexual assault is still at crisis levels in America. Recent research indicates that more than one-third of adult women in the U.S. have been sexually...
Stressed Out? This May Help
Individual Counseling Insights From Westlake Village-Based Patricia McTague-Loft Many people use the terms “stress” and “pressure” interchangeably. Even dictionary definitions don’t help a whole in drawing distinctions between the two. But if you think about how...
Postpartum Depression Is Real
Individual Counseling Insights From Westlake Village-Based Patricia McTague-Loft Are you pretty good at spotting a new Mom? You know — she’s the young woman who looks like she hasn’t slept in days, giggles for no reason and then suddenly runs off with a frantic...
Better Than Speed Reading
Individual Counseling Insights From Westlake Village-Based Patricia McTague-Loft Do you remember Reader’s Digest Magazine? Decades ago you could find it on the racks of nearly every grocery store checkout aisle. The Digest is actually still around, but in the digital...
Keeping Depression From Being A Career Roadblock
Individual Counseling Insights From Westlake Village-Based Patricia McTague-Loft People who suffer from depression confront a variety of challenges. One issue that rarely gets the attention it deserves is how depression affects a person’s career. Major depressive...
Why, Exactly, Do We Procrastinate?
Individual Counseling Insights From Westlake Village-Based Patricia McTague-Loft If you’re like 99 percent of the human race, you might find yourself putting things off when you know you should be doing them. One day scientists will discover there is actually a...
Turning Dreams Into Reality
Individual Counseling Insights brought to you by California Psychotherapeutic Resources, Inc. “Ambition” is such a wonderfully complex concept. It begins with something like desire. You imagine or see something you’d like to be, at the same time developing a...
Essential Reading For Success
Individual Counseling Insights brought to you by California Psychotherapeutic Resources, Inc. Some books stand the test of time. Take the bestseller Think and Grow Rich, by Napoleon Hill. He spent 20 years researching 40 millionaires, trying to find commonalities that...
The Perfect Is The Enemy Of The Good
Individual Counseling Insights brought to you by California Psychotherapeutic Resources, Inc. Striving to do the best you can at every job you undertake seems like a good thing, at least on the surface. After all, the old aphorism seems to be true: Any job worth...
Two Essential Qualities of Enterprising People
Individual Counseling Insights brought to you by California Psychotherapeutic Resources, Inc. Motivational speakers come from a variety of backgrounds and offer a variety of visions. None, though, is more renowned than Jim Rohn, who began working as a stock clerk...