Author: Shocki, PhD, LMFT, LCSW
Dr Shocki has over thirty years experience in the behavior health field. He has founded and directs the Life Source Center, Inc., located in Plantsville Connecticut. Services include behavior health counseling dealing with relationship issues, persons struggling with various anxiety and depressive maladies and those individuals struggling to develop improved stategies to cope with the world around them. Dr. Shocki has also written a book entitled "Take Charge of Your Life or Someone Else Will" The book is available electronically free upon request at lifesourcecenter @aol.com.
“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”- Ralph Waldo Emerson
When I observe people in my professional and personal life, I am struck by the pressures placed upon each of them by the outside world to be something or someone that in reality they’re not. I am no less exempt from these outside pressures. This starts when we are small children and are pressured by peers and adults to be something that we are uncomfortable with or can’t identify with for ourselves. This continues throughout our life span. It manifests itself with parents, other adults, playmates, teachers, spouses, employers, employees,Read More