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Narcissism and Caregiving: Dancing around the Truth

November 9, 2020

This post explores narcissism and caregiving and how at the core of both is a difficulty with vulnerability and either creating boundaries with caregiving and respecting boundaries with narcissism. Post explores the giving-taking spectrum and how to go about growth from either end of the spectrum.
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Relationships, Schema Concepts

Guilt and Projective Identification: Bait for Narcissists

May 18, 2021

This post explores Self-Sacrifice Schema and the impact of projective identification, particularly related to guilt and self-absorption, on ones tendency to be manipulated by others.
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Anxiety, Neuroscience, Schema Concepts

Combat Dread and Anxiety by Combatting Vulnerability to Harm Schema

April 14, 2021

This post explores Vulnerability to Harm schema, which often plays an integral role in provoking feelings of anxiety and dread in clients with chronic experiences of anxiety. This post provides techniques for retraining the amygdala and overcoming irrational thoughts that provoke and maintain chronic anxiety.
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Counseling Theories, Psychological Concepts

Narcissism, Caregiving, and Trauma: Facing Uncomfortable Feelings Results in Healing

March 31, 2021

This post explores the importance of feeling and understanding our emotions in combatting Mental Health symptoms such as anxiety, depression, post traumatic stress syndrome, and addiction. This post argues that in order for healing to take place or intimacy to occur, we must be able to feel our feelings and learn from them.
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Psychological Concepts, Relationships

Running From Guilt and Shame Means Running Towards Narcissism and Caregiving

March 9, 2021

This post explores characteristics of individuals who have a tendency towards caregiving behaviors versus those who have a tendency towards narcissistic behaviors.
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Relationships, Schema Concepts

Option and Obligation: Boundaries Mean Letting Others Choose

February 18, 2021

This post explores the way that boundary problems can impact the way that we are in relationship with others. Often boundary problems cause us to attempt to read other people’s minds in attempt to help them or put them first. Rather than asking them for their thoughts or feelings we can fall into the trap…
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Services

Epijennetics Counseling & Consulting offers a variety of counseling options for adolescents and adults, including individual, couple, and family counseling, as well as consulting services for non-clinical work. It is our belief that mental health counseling should be a holistic approach that doesn’t simply treat mental health symptoms, but assists clients in better understanding their values and priorities, finding meaning, and building a healthy and hopeful future. Counseling sessions are multi-faceted, including an in-depth and strategic approach to understanding the personality, needs, values, and background of each client. Counseling work is focused on repairing harmful beliefs, challenging unhealthy ways of thinking, and improving overall relationship and life satisfaction. Evidenced based treatments such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Schema Therapy are used to address anxiety, depression, ADHD, and a variety of other troubling mental health disorders. See our Services Page for more details about services.

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C. S. Lewis

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About the Website

Epijennetics.com was inspired by the science of Epigenetics. Epigenetics is the study of how your behaviors and environment can cause changes that affect the way your genes work, without altering actual DNA itself. This is thought to be the process that is behind transgenerational trauma, or the effects of trauma that are passed down through families. Not only is the impact of traumatic events passed down, but often harmful relationship patterns and belief systems are as well.

Epijennetics, the website, is intended to provide content that is easy to digest but powerfully transformative if applied to ones life. Each blog included is intended to present Psychological concepts that I hope will inspire you to explore the various ways that thought life impacts behavior and feelings. Thoughts are often automatic and unconscious, having been the result of messages received from others or experiences with others. These thoughts not only come from experiences in ones life directly, but also through transgenerational patterns and beliefs. Concepts in blog articles are pulled from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Schema Therapy, Narrative Therapy, as well as other counseling theories.

It is my honest belief that inside of each of us is the capacity to transform our lives through renewed thinking, intentional behavioral change, and new relational experiences. It is my hope that through reading the content presented you can gain new insight into the ways that your thoughts and beliefs have led you down futile roads. I hope that the road ahead presents opportunities for growth and change, and that you can see them as such. I hope that when your thoughts are hindering you, not helping you, that you can back up and think again, hence preventing falling into self-defeating patterns and reactivity.

Latest Posts

Impaired Autonomy and Performance: Suffering from Chronic Feelings of Worthlessness and InadequacyOctober 31, 2023
Mind-Reading: An Ineffective Way to Address NeedsSeptember 16, 2023
Trauma and Parts of Self: Understanding Narcissistic and Self-Sacrificing Managers in OurselvesMarch 21, 2022
Other-Directedness and Anxiety: Does Focusing on Others Help or Hurt?February 24, 2022
Change: A Million Little ThingsJanuary 10, 2022

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Narcissism and Caregiving: Dancing around the Truth

Guilt and Projective Identification: Bait for Narcissists

Combat Dread and Anxiety by Combatting Vulnerability to Harm Schema

Narcissism, Caregiving, and Trauma: Facing Uncomfortable Feelings Results in Healing

Running From Guilt and Shame Means Running Towards Narcissism and Caregiving

Option and Obligation: Boundaries Mean Letting Others Choose

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