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Your Personality Traits – What’s Behind Them

Mardoche Sidor, MD and Karen Dubin, PhD, LCSW — Wed, 03 Feb 2021 20:00:00 +0000

As such, your thoughts can only show you things that are meaningless. So, all the things you think that are meaningful are rather useless.

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What is Your Purpose?

Mardoche Sidor, MD and Karen Dubin, PhD, LCSW — Wed, 27 Jan 2021 15:00:00 +0000

What may work for one person may not work for another.” And we will then kindly tell you that it is all about context and when it comes to context, there is a universal clarity for you to have, without which, any goals you may have, have nothing at all to do with you living life with an aim, goal, or purpose [3].

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What do you know for sure?

Mardoche Sidor, MD and Karen Dubin, PhD, LCSW — Wed, 20 Jan 2021 15:00:00 +0000

To make matters worse, even in Science, it is said, “The great truths of today are the great lies of tomorrow.” In other words, what we think we have enough scientific evidence for today will, with certainty, end up being proven to be untrue. What a dilemma. What do we know for sure then?

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What’s The Number 1 Skill In CBT?

Mardoche Sidor, MD and Karen Dubin, PhD, LCSW — Mon, 18 Jan 2021 15:00:00 +0000

While there may be several factors contributing to this, part of the answer can be summed up by this sentence: “CBT cannot be successful without our clinical soft skills.”

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What is Life About?: The Enigma behind Personality Disorders

Mardoche Sidor, MD and Karen Dubin, PhD, LCSW — Sun, 17 Jan 2021 17:18:00 +0000

Our concept of what life is all about is so limiting that we all end up using defenses to navigate life. The use of such defenses are expressed in personality traits . We then make personality traits a “disease” to which we say there is no cure.

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Behaviors, Habits, and the Decision Matrix

Mardoche Sidor, MD and Karen Dubin, PhD, LCSW — Sat, 16 Jan 2021 15:00:00 +0000

Such a behavior has become so ingrained, that our brain has automatized it. The behavior soon becomes reflexive and develops into a habit. And, as a result, a habit cannot be simply, â€œtossed out the window.â€

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Fulfillment

Mardoche Sidor, MD and Karen Dubin, PhD, LCSW — Tue, 01 Dec 2020 15:00:00 +0000

Knowing who we are. Knowing our True nature. What does all mean? It means everything. It means why so many in the world are not fulfilled.

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How can we make the biggest difference?

Mardoche Sidor, MD and Karen Dubin, PhD, LCSW — Tue, 17 Nov 2020 15:00:00 +0000

We can no longer wait and allow those with special interests, none of which include the interests of our patients, continue to make the decision for them. We can no longer stay on the sidelines. We have to do something, and while one person, alone, may not be able to do much, coming together, in community, we can.

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