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.
Don’t let others define who you are. Rather you need to define who you are.
Unfortunately, through the years, I found it far too common for people to be so dependent on the approval of others that they lose sight of who they truly are and become mere extensions of what they think other people want them to be. We are bombarded daily from a variety of sources, be it from the media, peers, politicians, employers, employees, family or friends. The list is legion. The results are that these people are more often in reactive mode. They react to implicit and explicit pressures placed uponRead More