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Why Do Women People Please?
It’s more complicated than you think! Working with women (and girls) for almost three decades, I’ve been struck by how many feel...

elainesbelson
Feb 12, 20224 min read
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Much Ado About Whoopi: A Jewish clinical social worker gives her take on host’s comment
Ironically, it was exactly 3 years ago when a 35-year-old yearbook photo surfaced of (then) Governor Ralph Northam in blackface. To make...

elainesbelson
Feb 5, 20223 min read
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Simone Biles: Re-modeling Mental Health and Female Self-Esteem
Listening to Simone Biles at Tuesday’s press conference, I was impressed by how comfortable she appeared with her decision. Let’s be...

elainesbelson
Jul 29, 20214 min read
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Police Brutality and the Art of De-Escalation
de•es•ca•late [de-es-kuh-leyt] verb (with or without object), to decrease in intensity, magnitude, etc. As a Social Work Officer at Fort...

elainesbelson
Jun 17, 20205 min read
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Everyone Needs Psychotherapy
It truly pains me to watch you everyday make self-defeating decisions, knowing how avoidable they are. What if I told you that you don’t...

elainesbelson
Apr 5, 20203 min read
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Ditch Your Inner Bully
You’ve just left a meeting or an evening out with friends. As you’re walking away, you feel a rush of anxiety. Then it shows up: that...

elainesbelson
Dec 1, 20192 min read
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Stop Worrying FOREVER!
One of the biggest misconceptions about anxiety is that it’s interchangeable with worry. Not so. Anxiety is an emotion . Worrying is a...

elainesbelson
Jul 31, 20192 min read
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