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Psychological Concepts, Relationships, Schema Concepts

Mind-Reading: An Ineffective Way to Address Needs

September 16, 2023

This post discusses the ineffectiveness of mind-reading in relationships and explores the impact of Self-Sacrificing, Narcsissistic, and Borderline Personality characteristics on relationships.
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Psychological Concepts

Other-Directedness and Anxiety: Does Focusing on Others Help or Hurt?

February 24, 2022

This post explores the Other-Directedness domain schemas of Approval Seeking, Self-Sacrificing, and Subjugation and the impact that these schemas have on anxiety.
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Psychological Concepts, Relationships

Change: A Million Little Things

January 10, 2022

This blog explores the many factors that contribute to growth and healing in the context of counseling and therapy.
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Human Growth and Development, Relationships

Like It or Not, It’s All About the Relationship

December 17, 2020

This blog explores the impact of early messages from parents and the internal dialogue that we take into adulthood.
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Relationships

Validation and the Walls Before Us

September 29, 2020

This post explores the impact of not receiving validation from those close to us. This post also includes steps to take to increase likeliness of receiving and giving validation.
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Psychological Concepts

Expectations and Fairness: Can You Tell the Difference?

September 20, 2020

This post explores the potential to blame others when we are not intentional about differentiating between our own expectations and the perception of unfairness and fairness in actions of others.
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Relationships

Heeding Warnings

September 10, 2020

This post explores an individual’s tendency to not heed warnings in relationships and offers tips for seeking healthy and mutual connection.
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Relationships, Schema Concepts

Enmeshment and Boundaries

September 1, 2020

This post explores the Psychological concepts of Enmeshment and Boundaries and how they impact relationships. Post encourages self-reflection and offers tips for overcoming behaviors that reinforce enmeshment.
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Relationships, Schema Concepts

Cognitive Consistency and Schema

August 31, 2020

This post explores the Psychological principles of Cognitive Consistency and Schema and the impact they have on relationships and Mental Health.
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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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