something to ponder – Patricia Dornelles, LCSW

July 4, 2013 Patricia Dornelles 0 Comments 0 tags

Living a multidimensional life One dimension One dimension is a line – a line connects 2 points. . This line ...

January 11, 2013 Patricia Dornelles 2 Comments 6 tags

Loyalty – I wrote this and posted it elsewhere, thought it should go here as well. In Santería, Obba is ...

November 30, 2012 Patricia Dornelles 0 Comments 14 tags

Rewriting history We all come with baggage Things that happened to us as children; as teenagers and as adults Maybe ...

July 19, 2012 Patricia Dornelles 7 Comments 10 tags

Last Sunday, my spouse and I decided to go for a late afternoon walk in the park. It was our ...

May 24, 2012 Patricia Dornelles 4 Comments 0 tags

For any Dominican, who was living in DR during that year, this question is akin to ‘where were you on ...

April 22, 2012 Patricia Dornelles 2 Comments 10 tags

Today is Earth Day – a day for us to renew our awareness of our connection to the Earth. As ...

April 20, 2012 Patricia Dornelles 0 Comments 12 tags

Sometimes our thinking can get in the way of progress. We complicate things beyond recognition and become immobilized. The concept ...

April 1, 2012 Patricia Dornelles 0 Comments 17 tags

Overgeneralization is a type of cognitive distortion where an individual generalizes a negative view based on one, or limited, experience. In ...

March 18, 2012 Patricia Dornelles 0 Comments 14 tags

One thing to look at when thinking about unremitting problems is what is the secondary gain from staying stuck? Just as ...

March 10, 2012 Patricia Dornelles 0 Comments 12 tags

Thanksgiving is long gone right now, but it’s a good a time as any to discuss this ‘syndrome’. Basically, Thanksgiving Syndrome ...