James Hendrix
BS:Physics, MS:Engineering Management, MA:Marriage & Family Therapy
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Relationship, Mental, Addiction, Emotional Issues Expert
James Hendrix Quick Facts
- Main Areas
- Psychotherapy, Relationship, Emotional, Mental Health and Addiction Issues
- Career Focus
- Helping people get their life back from relationship, emotional, mental health, drug, alcohol issues.
James L Hendrix is a marriage & family therapist specializing in helping people gettheir life back from relationship, emotional, mental health, drug, alcohol issues. He is especially good with clients and their families who struggle with such issues – getting the right help and helping all involved understand the issues. He can be reached at Jim@JLHendrix.com.
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Take Control of the Thoughts that are Controlling You
We all have thoughts that seem to take on a life of their own in our heads. For some of us they are negative, destructive thoughts that have been with us since childhood. Dad may have called you bird legs or a teacher in frustration said you were stupid. What they said not only stuck but was played over and over in our minds thousands of times. I want to show you how to take every thought captive and make it obedient to the truth. First I need to let you in on a secret. Your own mind lies to you! I know it comes as quite a shock but it is true.
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Magic Words All Families Need
Do you have rough housing kids and someone seems to always get hurt? Have you ever had a defiant (or any) child who really needed to listen in an emergency. Have you ever needed your child to stop arguing and listen and do what you ask them to do? If it has happened to you in the past or you expect to spend time around kids in your life then this article is for you!
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Relationship, Mental Health, Substance Abuse and Medication
There are mental health, relationship issues and emotional problems that are beyond or at least at the edge of behavioral control. People are not trying to be depressed or crazy – they act that way because of complex brain, hormone, environment, and background issues. There are times when medications are not required where therapy alone or coaching or exercise and diet at all that are required to return a person to normal – whatever that is. I firmly believe that if you think someone is normal you just don’t know them well enough. There are also situations that require medication.
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Rules of Engagement for Adult Time-Outs
Why Do We Need Time-Outs? When your heart rate gets above about 100 beats per minute we as humans loose the capacity to think rationally with some exceptions: Athletes, soldiers, doctors, police, firefighters and the like are trained to handle situations where they have to function in high stress situations, but they train and train and train some more so that they are programmed to perform their functions even under extreme stress – everyone will switch to fight or flight depending on the level of stress and even trained professionals trained for crisis on the job can have it happen in s
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Bipolar Disorder, Manic Depression: Understanding the Disease
What is Bipolar Disorder? Bipolar is a disease state where the client moves back and forth from depression to mania. Depression is characterized by loss of interest in things that they used to find pleasure in, loss or gain of appetite, typically not wanting to get out of bed for prolonged periods of time, and sometimes suicidal thoughts or actions. Mania is characterized by racing thoughts, pressured speech, decreased need for sleep, spending sprees, road rage, driving fast, promiscuous sex, risk taking behaviors, drug abuse, alcohol abuse.
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Angry? Overwhelmed? Flooded? 10 ways to tell if someone needs to cool off!
I have talked about getting people to listen, time outs and the rules of engagement. Today I am going to give you ten signs that the person you are talking to is flooded or overwhelmed and if they don’t calm down there may be trouble. They are at least not listening to you. Some of these you know but some may be new and give you an invaluable key to keeping your conversations productive. Remember you can not have a productive conversation with someone who is overwhelmed.
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Taking the Power Out: when you think what you have to say may be taken the wrong way
Have you ever tried to tell someone something that you knew they would be hurt by or take the wrong way? Of course you have, and so have I. Being misunderstood is a common pariah. We all hate it and yet we often can’t finish a sentence without the other person: falling apart, or jumping in, or getting defensive, or even running away. How do you get someone to actually hear what you have to say? In a previous article, “How to Say Anything to Anyone”, I disclosed the secret of showing conce for the person you are speaking to and had having compassion for them.
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Ear tubes - Are they Safe?
It is so simple, tikes who are young as well as babies occasionally have a operation for ventilation tubes inserted into their ears. This process is usually for chronic ear infections. As the toddlers get older, their hearing looks to be at a normal stage.Sharp medical experts have said, ...
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