In a recent job interview, I was asked, “How would you get your client to see things your way?”   I said, “By seeing things his way first.” The associate looked a little confused, so I continued. “You aren’t going to get anywhere if you don’t listen first, right? You can’t make him come around…

I know that the fastest way to despair is by comparing one’s insides with another’s outsides, and that Max Ehrmann, the author of the classic poem “Desiderata,” was absolutely correct when he said that if you compare yourself with others you become either vain or bitter, or, as Helen Keller put it: “Instead of comparing…

“Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, ‘I will try again tomorrow.'” –Mary Anne RadmacherThat’s the gist of this video.To get to the YouTube video click here. * Click here to subscribe to Beyond Blue and click here to follow Therese on Twitter and click here…

The following post is the Afterword of the newly released “Overcoming Borderline Personality Disorder” by Valerie Porr. I have reprinted it here with permission of Oxford University Press. There are so many misconceptions about this disorder today. A friend of mine, recently diagnosed with BPD, has helped me to understand her illness. I hope this…

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